VAST Data’s Universal Storage redefines the economics of flash storage, making flash affordable for all applications, from the highest performance databases to the largest data archives, for the first time. The Universal Storage concept blends game-changing storage innovations to lower the acquisition cost of flash with an exabyte-scale file and object storage architecture breaking decades of storage tradeoffs.
While the architecture concepts are sophisticated, the intent and vision of Universal Storage are simple: to bring an end to the data center HDD era and end the complexity of storage tiering that is a byproduct of the decades of compromises caused by mechanical media. This White Paper will introduce you to VAST Data’s Universal Storage, the DASE architecture, and explain how this new architecture defies all conventional definitions of storage. In breaking the classic price/performance tradeoff, this system features all-flash performance at archive economics to simplify the data center and accelerate all modern applications.