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Over the past few years, we have witnessed a limitless consumer thirst for flash memory, which has rapidly created a $1 billion industry. According to statistics, flash memory sales of consumer electronic devices, including iPhone, tablets and ultrabooks, account for 85% of the entire flash market, while enterprise flash accounts for 15%. Flash memory technology is expected to become a new star in the data center field.

Higher density and lower cost

Many IT enterprises still focus on Flash 1.0, and the way to use it is very simple, which is to add flash memory directly to an overburdened server or a single-target storage array.

With the development of processor technology and the emergence of more energy-consuming applications, flash memory must provide higher density and stronger capabilities. For example, in a complex operating environment such as hybrid cloud computing, data centers need to implement data storage and cross-server applications in a more flexible way and at a lower cost.

The flash memory of Flash 1.0 is still increasing its density according to Moore's Law, while improving the access performance of Imax O and supporting more virtual machines to meet big data's storage needs. Higher density, faster speed and lower cost are the secrets of rapid commercialization of flash memory.

Software is the driving force for the development of flash memory

The real mature Flash 2.0 flash memory technology, which can be widely used in data centers, must break through the limitations of a single commodity component and develop to a diversified system-level architecture. In order to achieve this goal, the flash memory industry must vigorously develop system-level solutions with software as the core, so as to further improve the performance of flash memory, ensure data integrity, and improve storage efficiency.

In order to give full play to the advantages of flash in enterprise applications, enterprises must re-examine the applications of flash in both physical and virtual environments, such as when and how much flash is needed to meet the needs of computing and analysis. which applications need the fastest channels, how flash memory operates in complex and diverse data centers, and so on.

The method of software-defined flash memory can help users solve the above problems. Software-defined flash memory enables data centers to maximize the potential of flash memory as a hierarchical storage medium in large-scale storage systems. The software-defined flash technology framework shortens the gap between data center requirements and hardware limitations, thereby improving performance, management, and availability, and reducing costs.

By creating a software-defined enterprise flash framework, enterprises can effectively solve the scalability, availability and performance of traditional and next-generation data centers in a multi-platform environment. In order to realize the scale of flash applications, software-defined flash should achieve physical and virtual deployment across servers and storage networks, so as to improve its performance to meet the needs of big data's analysis and transaction processing.

The need for enterprises to deploy and use flash memory on a larger scale directly promotes the development of advanced data servers. The software-defined enterprise flash framework can solve the storage problems faced by more enterprises by using host-based technology, such as deduplication, data coordination, classified archiving and so on.

There is no doubt that flash memory will continue to increase the speed of consumer electronic devices, but if flash memory is to be widely deployed in the enterprise, it must develop in step with software management technology. In the next few years, software-defined flash memory will have substantial development.

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