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Announcing FlashArray//C20: Extending the Pure Storage Platform to Edge-optimized Capacities

Pure Storage

Announcing FlashArray//C20: Extending the Pure Storage Platform to Edge-optimized Capacities by Pure Storage Blog Summary The power of the Pure Storage platform is now available in smaller capacities. They were looking for the full capabilities of the Pure Storage platform but with smaller capacities and a lower cost of entry.

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The SSD Trap: How a Storage Solution’s Reliance on SSDs Can Impact You (Part 1 of 2)

Pure Storage

From 2012 to 2019, AFAs have risen in popularity and now drive approximately 80% or more of all storage shipments for performant application environments. are needed to build a system to meet any given performance and capacity requirements. HDDs have essentially been left in the magnetic dust. Next, let’s look at DRAM. form factor.

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The Data Center of the Future Is All-flash. Will the Last HDD Seller Please Turn Out the Lights?

Pure Storage

As of 2019, up to 80% of primary storage workloads were handled by all-flash arrays (AFAs), emphasizing the importance of high-performance storage solutions. Meanwhile, HDDs were largely relegated to secondary workloads, where factors like capacity and cost took precedence over speed.

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The Data Center of the Future Is All-flash

Pure Storage

In fact, the technology dates back to the 1950s, when IBM first constructed a server farm about the size of two refrigerators with a storage capacity of 3.75MB. By this time, HDDs were primarily being used as secondary workloads that were more capacity- and cost-constrained than primary workloads. But that’s a far cry from today.

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The Disk/Flash Crossover Event Is Closer Than You Think

Pure Storage

One of the predictions I made was that “new flash capacity will get within striking distance [of the cost] of new HDD capacity in 2023.” This is the lowest tier of online data storage, but it also represents a huge portion of bytes being stored, as well as the growing majority (more than 70%) of hard drive capacity shipped each year.

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Infrastructure as a Service Makes a Difference for Retailers

Pure Storage

You might start with an SUV because you need the carrying capacity, but then later downsize to a sporty sedan. FlashStack for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 . Need more storage capacity? When you lease a car, you’re stuck with that car for the term of the lease. You don’t own the car, but you still have no flexibility. Scale that.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Each chapter gives examples for emergency management to achieve “Just Disaster Recovery,” proposed in 2019 by Jerollemen in Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice. reviewed in Recovery Diva March 29, 2019 ]. More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L.