All-flash technology is the way of the future. Performance matters, and flash is fast—and it is getting even faster with the advent of NVMe and SCM technologies. IT organizations are going to continue to increase the amount of flash storage in their shops for this simple reason.

However, this also introduces more complexity into the modern data center. In the real world, blindly deploying all-flash everywhere is costly, and it doesn’t solve management/operational silo problems. In the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) 2018 IT spending intentions survey, 68% of IT decision makers said that IT is more complex today than it was just two years ago. In this white paper, ESG discusses:

•    The modern data center challenge
•    Buying considerations before your next flash purchase
•    The value of storage infrastructure independence and how to obtain it with software-defined storage

Composable Infrastructures direct-connect compute and storage resources dynamically—using virtualized networking techniques controlled by software. Instead of physically constructing a server with specific internal devices (storage, NICs, GPUs or FPGAs), or cabling the appropriate device chassis to a server, composable enables the virtual connection of these resources at the device level as needed, when needed.

Download this report from Eric Slack, Senior Analyst at the Evaluator Group to learn how Liqid’s software-defined platform delivers comprehensive, multi-fabric composable infrastructure for the industry’s widest array of data center resources.