FlashBlade//E: The Cost-Effective Alternative for HDD-based Secondary Storage Workloads

As enterprises move through digital transformation, they are capturing, storing, protecting, and analyzing an increasing amount of data. Data growth rates for many enterprises exceed 30% per year, which means that many of them are already managing multi-petabyte (PB) data sets and considering how they will best manage tens of PBs in the coming years. The roughly 20% of all enterprise data that is used for latency-sensitive, mission-critical, primary workloads has largely already migrated to all-flash, but most of the data used for secondary storage workloads that are less latency-sensitive but much more cost- and capacity-sensitive still reside on hard disk drives (HDDs). These workloads are primarily made up of unstructured (i.e. file- and object-based) data.