DCIG 2017-18 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide
Recommended: HPE 3par StorServe, Dell SC 9000, HDS VSP, Huawei OceanStor and NetApp AFF A300
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on April 4, 2017 at 2:42 pmDCIG announced the availability of the 2017-18 All-flash Array Buyer’s Guide developed from the enterprise storage array body of research.
This guide weights, scores and ranks more than 100 features of twenty-five (25) products from 12 different storage vendor.
Using ranking categories of Recommended, Excellent and Good this guide offers much of the information an organization should need to make a highly-informed decision as to which all-flash storage array will suit their needs.
Each array included in guide had to meet the following criteria:
- Must be available as an appliance that is available as a single SKU and includes its own hardware and software.
- Must be marketed as an all-flash array (AFA). The best evidence of meeting this criterion is the existence of a specific all-flash SKU.
- Must use flash memory as primary storage, not merely as an extended cache.
- May permit storage expansion with disk shelves that contain HDDs or the virtualization of external disk based arrays-essentially converting the all-flash array into a hybrid storage array
- Must support one or more of the following storage networking protocols: iSCSI, FC, IB, NFS.
- There must be sufficient information available to DCIG to make meaningful decisions. DCIG makes a good faith effort to reach out and obtain information from as many storage providers as possible. However, products may be excluded because of a lack of sufficient reliable data.
- Must be formally announced and/or available for purchase as of February 28, 2017.