The future of enterprise flash storage [Q&A]

The all-flash storage market is predicted by Gartner to be worth $9 billion by 2020. But while flash offers speed advantages it's also expensive so it seems likely that the foreseeable future will see a mix of storage. We spoke to Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and co-founder of ClearSky Data, which offers enterprise storage, backup and DR as a fully managed hybrid cloud service, to find out more about flash storage and how best to exploit it. BN: Is there really a shortage of flash storage and what does this mean for enterprises? LV: The data center world has been buzzing about all-flash… [Continue Reading]