Published: 31 October 2017
This research assesses the capabilities of high-end storage arrays and evaluates products against key use cases of interest to infrastructure and operations. When choosing storage arrays, I&O leaders should weigh these ratings in the context of their vendor ecosystem.
The scale-out design of many high-end storage arrays, which allows processing and storage nodes to be upgraded and scale independently, is validated by many new midrange and solid-state arrays adopting the same architecture.
Very few high-end arrays have both compression and deduplication due to the complex changes required to enable these features. However, raw storage capacities have increased, with arrays now reaching over 100 petabytes (PB) in size.
Purchase prices of high-end arrays continue to decrease by approximately 20% per annum. This, combined with the performance and effective capacity guarantees, increases the value proposition of these arrays.
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