Unstoppable data growth, the availability of the information stored and backup reliability are the most important considerations when it comes to mass storage, as revealed recently at the Fujitsu Storage Days held across Germany.
Hybrid flash memories and all-flash arrays, which can be extended to distributed and fail-safe file systems on any number of servers with Ceph and OpenStack, have proven capable of handling current requirements.
Because when faced with the hurdle of petabytes, traditional RAID systems are currently limited, in particular due to high rebuild times, rising high-availability costs and over or under-provisioning as a result of unexpected data growth. (Source: Fujitsu/bs)