Technology is quickly moving to the forefront as organizations undertake digital and information
technology (IT) transformation projects that enable strategic differentiation in a world where users
are leveraging applications and data in new ways. The reality is, most organizations were not born
digital but instead have legacy business processes, applications, and infrastructure that require
modernization and automation. As a result, businesses must embark on IT transformation to
modernize and automate their legacy infrastructure and prime themselves to achieve their digital
business goals.
A major component in modernizing a datacenter is moving to all-flash storage, and it has become
clear that moving to flash is about more than just performance gains. Flash storage is now available
in every major type of primary storage platform, including both scale-up and scale-out designs, and
is in broad use in IT organizations of all sizes worldwide. The most successful established enterprise
storage vendors generally do not offer just a single flash storage solution; rather, they offer a broad
portfolio of solutions that covers the five major enterprise storage consumption models: storage
appliances, software only, converged infrastructure (CI), hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), and
cloud. Customers have broadly deployed these storage platforms not only for the performance
benefits they provide but also for the significantly better total cost of ownership (TCO) they offer
relative to hard disk drive (HDD)-based storage platforms for primary storage workloads