In the past few years, flash technology has transformed the storage market forever. Today, flash-first arrays are the new normal. We believe the new NVMe-oF shared storage protocol combined with the advent of a broad range of NVMe-based devices including SCM will prove as disruptive to the external storage market over the next five years as NAND flash technology was in the recent past.

Read this Market Perspective to understand why now is the time to ask your storage vendors important questions about their array architectures, what questions to ask them, and how to interpret the answers. Arrays that efficiently read and write to SAS-based SSDs won’t see much gain from switching their backend to NVMe until the frontend also supports NVMe-oF. This report will explain why, when, and how this shift will take place