target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: May 2020 - Document type: IDC Perspective - Doc Document number: # US46235720
System-Level Capabilities Should Dominate Enterprise Storage Platform Comparisons, Not Storage Device Choices
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Abstract
This IDC Perspective discusses the various claims enterprise vendors make that are associated with their storage device strategies and suggests how IT managers can evaluate those claims against relevant business benefits. In enterprise storage, vendors have used two strategies for storage devices that go into their storage systems: off-the-shelf SSDs and custom memory modules (CMMs). From a systems point of view, does this design choice impose any additional advantages and/or risks that enterprises need to take into account as they make storage purchase decisions?
"There are very successful examples of enterprise vendors using both storage device strategies — SSDs or CMMs — in their storage platforms, as well as vendors that have switched in midstream and those that offer both options to their customers," said Eric Burgener, research vice president, Enterprise Infrastructure, Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group at IDC. "In making purchase decisions, enterprises will want to focus on areas of meaningful differentiation in systems capabilities, not storage device characteristics, for their particular workloads and environment."