Flash uptake is set to soar globally, as enterprises look to modernise their data centres and drive competitive advantage, EMC told delegates at an Executive Forum in Johannesburg.
Speaking at the EMC Infrastructure as a Superpower Executive Forum hosted by EMC in partnership with ITWeb last week, Servaas Venter, EMC's Director: Enterprise All-Flash Sales for TEEAM and Russia said the IDC is predicting flash would top around 90% of all hard drives sold by 2026. "But I think it will happen a lot faster. At EMC, around 30% of what we are shipping at the moment is flash. We have a number of large enterprise customers who have already moved to all flash infrastructure - but they aren't advertising it because it gives them a competitive advantage," he said.
The Executive Forum, hosted to update South African Oracle database administrators on EMC's offerings, highlighted the growing challenges faced by DBAs amid exponentially increasing data volumes and business's need for greater speed and agility.
The world is looking to all-flash arrays for speed and performance, but database administrators are also concerned about application performance, data protection and high availability, said Neil Cameron, EMC's Oracle Global Presales Director. "Oracle database administrators today are challenged in terms of performance. They are dealing with massive volumes of data, and the need for rapid compression and decompression. Modern enterprises need sub-millisecond response times - just consider financial institutions and their trading needs. DBAs also need to reduce their storage footprint and ensure high availability."
"At our seminars around the world, we see Oracle DBAs keen to view and test our technology. They are particularly interested in EMC's ability to enhance performance, data protection, recovery time and availability, and support their consolidation strategies."
Delegates at the forum were also given insight into the evolving BI landscape, improving Oracle database performance, and protecting and optimising Oracle environments.
While flash alone does not solve every database challenge, it is one pillar of the modern database, and gives DBAs one less thing to worry about, says EMC. Venter explains that the pillars of the modern data include flash, scale out ability, a software-defined environment and being cloud-enabled.
"The digital world is changing everything from A to Z, and in the next 15 years, we will see IT driving business, not the other way around," said Venter. "But taking advantage of the opportunities presented by the digital enterprise demands you start with the data centre."
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