The advantages of centralized hybrid flash storage

centralized hybrid flash storage combines the advantages of high-performance flash memory (SSD) and large capacity mechanical hard disk (HDD). Through unified architecture management, it balances performance, cost, and reliability, making it particularly suitable for growing enterprises or organizations that are budget sensitive but need to ensure critical business continuity.

List of Core Advantages

Balance between performance and cost

Automatically place hot data (frequently accessed) on the SSD layer and store cold data on the HDD layer, achieving near full flash performance and near mechanical disk cost through intelligent layering technology. Compared to pure full flash solutions, the three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) can be reduced to around 24%.

High availability and business continuity assurance

Adopting redundant hardware design (such as dual controllers, power supplies, fans), supporting real-time firmware updates and hardware replacement without downtime, ensuring availability of over 99.999%. Some models support MetroCluster synchronous replication, achieving zero data loss and almost zero recovery time.

Unified workload support, simplified management

Supporting the integration of SAN (block) and NAS (file) protocols, a single system can serve multiple businesses such as databases, virtualization, file sharing, backup, etc., reducing IT architecture complexity.

Integrated data protection and ransomware protection

Built in snapshot, replication, duplicate data deletion, compression and other functions, and integrated with AI driven anti ransomware protection (such as Lenovo ThinkSystem DM series), based on machine learning to identify abnormal behavior and actively prevent network attacks.

Flexible scalability and future compatibility

Support Scale out horizontal scaling, which can be extended from a single system to multiple high availability (HA) pairs to meet business growth needs. Simultaneously supporting cross generation device co clustering and free data flow, achieving smooth upgrades and the reuse of old devices.

Cloud Fusion and Hybrid Deployment Capability

Provide capabilities such as hierarchical data migration to the cloud, backup migration to the cloud, and one pool multi cloud, support seamless integration with public clouds, assist enterprises in building hybrid cloud strategies, and achieve cross domain data flow and disaster recovery.