The SNIA Networking
Storage Forum recently
hosted another webcast in our
Great
Storage Debate webcast series. This time, our SNIA experts debated three competing
visions about how storage should be done: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI),
Disaggregated Storage, and Centralized Storage. If you missed the live event,
it’s available
on-demand. Questions
from the webcast attendees made the panel debate quite lively. As promised,
here are answers to those questions.
Q. Can you imagine a realistic scenario where the different storage types are used as storage tiers? How much are they interoperable?
A. Most HCI solutions already have a tiering/caching structure built-in. However, a user could use HCI for hot to warm data, and also tier less frequently accessed data out to a separate backup/archive. Some of the HCI solutions have close partnerships with backup/archive vendor solutions just for this purpose.
Q. Is there a possibility where two or more classifications of storage can co-exist or be deployed? Examples please?
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