The Ghost Town in Your Flash Array

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-ghost-town-in-your-flash-array. Modern storage infrastructure is plagued by the problem of 90% of data being untouched and occupying expensive hot storage tiers Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #infrastructure, #storage-infrastructure, #capacity-crisis, #flash-array, #hot-storage, #modern-archiving, #metadata-trap, #archival-pipeline, and more. This story was written by: @coldcoldcold. Learn more about this writer by checking @coldcoldcold's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Modern storage infrastructure is plagued by the problem of 90% of data being untouched and occupying expensive hot storage tiers, leading to capacity crises and unnecessary hardware upgrades. To solve this, modern transparent archiving can turn cold, dead weight into lean, secure, and hot-RAID-friendly assets.