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Making the All-Flash Data Center a Reality: Part 2

Modern Storage Advantages
SSDs reduce running costs, generating far less speed and performance, and now two innovative
An all- ash data center running so ware-de ned heat than a spinning disk and requiring less solutions have arrived in storage. Flash now
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storage technology brings other bene ts as well:
energy for cooling
boasts even greater speed and performance, and
● Hardware performance gains enable ● Since SSDs are much smaller than spinning it will gain greater adoption as its prices continue
by Stefan Bernbo, founder and organizations to run more applications on the disks, they require less space and less real
to decline. e so ware-de ned storage approach
CEO of Compuverde (www. same hardware
estate to house them, thus delivering a smaller o ers the exibility and scalability that service
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● Performance experiences massive footprint in the data center.
providers need and is a robust architecture that
Pimprovement through the ability to use the faster Technology continues to break its own records can maximize the all- ash data center. is
art 1 of this 2-part series looked at the ash technology throughout the data center
in terms of the speed of change. It wasn’t so long will serve telecoms well as they strive to serve
performance advantages and dropping ● Lower power consumption means that
ago that disk storage was replacing tape with its
customers in the age of uni ed communications.
price of ash storage for service providers
struggling with the storage demands of providing
uni ed communications services. Part 2
will explore how the so ware-de ned trend
complements ash.

How Software-Deined Storage and
Flash Work Together
As ash grows in popularity, so does another
trend: so ware-de ned storage. While it might
be too soon to call the two trends linked, it’s
undeniable that a so ware-de ned approach to
storage infrastructure gives organizations the Omni Channel Agent Desktop
exibility they need to adopt an all- ash data
center strategy relatively quickly and easily.
What is so ware-de ned storage’s claim
to fame? Its genius lies in taking features
typically found in hardware and moving them
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to the so ware layer, thereby doing away
with depending on built-in and ine cient
redundancies that solve problems typically found certified for Avaya EMC
in the hardware layer. As a fact of life, hardware
will fail, regardless whether it’s expensive, certified for Avaya Interaction Center
inexpensive, ash or spinning disk. Flash storage,
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As a fact of life, hardware will fail,
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regardless whether it’s expensive,
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inexpensive, lash or spinning disk.
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Flash storage, in particular, currently
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spinning disk options.

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can be pricy. With the right so ware-de ned
approach, these problems would be absorbed and
invisible to the user. In addition, so ware-de ned
storage is hardware-agnostic and can run on any
hardware setup.
Telcos could use a single name space spanning
all its storage nodes by using a so ware-de ned
approach to storage architecture. ey could also
run applications in the storage nodes as well,
turning them into “compustorage” nodes. As a
result, the storage hardware itself wouldn’t need
to be that large or expensive, but would still have
very high performance and speed. erefore,
instead of building a really big, expensive and
traditional installation, telecoms can start with
a small number of cheap servers, and if needed,
scale linearly from there and still have a high-
performance data center.