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ESG Brief: Solid-state: Just Part of the Storage “Furniture”
ESG Brief
Sep 18, 2015
It’s becoming increasingly hard, indeed inaccurate, to write about solid-state as something “special” in the storage world. It is, if you will, simply part of the standard furniture in a regular storage house. That said, apart from a few corner-cases that can be described as the IT super-rich, niche-needy, or, newly on this list, capacity-limited environments, solid-state is still likely to remain as a minority of the production storage capacity in most large environments, until there is another step-change in the media and therefore the economics. However that step-change has already occurred—and been realized—as far as economic I/O performance and bandwidth goes. That, together with a growing appreciation of the broader values of solid-state beyond just performance, is why it is already recognized as a part of the regular storage furniture.
In order to assess IT spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 601 IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America and Western…