Qsan: 5P Strategy for Entry-Level AFA Procurement in 2020

Qsan Technology Inc. provides a 5Ps strategy of entry-level AFA procurement for users to distinguish the right storage system and get ready to face the challenges behind the data growth to help users to keep up the trend of the new business model and company digitization.

Why 5Ps strategy important?
Business model and services have changed, customers expect content tailored in real-time interaction and no redundant time tolerance. Replacing an AFA system has almost become an inexorable trend. Therefore, how to choose the right AFA system from the market needs a standard.

What is 5Ps strategy?

Performance
A primary advantage of AFA is consistently performance. The measurement including 3 factors: IO/s, latency and throughput. However, notice that a real AFA system is not a faster hybrid array, you need to take IO/s and latency together for the measurement. Applications with databases frequently accessing generates random reads/writes and the latency over 1ms will not only make bad user experience but also increase the possibility for data loss. Reaching 300,000 IO/s in 4K random write under 0.5ms latency is a minimum.

Protocol
In networking or data center for virtualized environments and mission-critical applications need higher bandwidth to support: 10GbE network, FC. 10GbE is becoming popular and FC can deliver lower latency. The painless migration of entry-level AFA must provide both protocols.

Persistence
Service unavailability for any mission-critical application is not acceptable. With dual-controller architecture, a non-stop service is fulfilled. Any unexpected single controller failure won’t cause the service stop since another controller takes over the service. The active-active design guarantees the performance while two controllers utilizing the same storage resource.

Price
Started from the minimum demanded capacity, the capacity can be expanded cost-effectively as the demand grows in the entry-level AFA. Choosing the better capacity-price ratio entry-level AFA in the market ensures that you will always get the capacity as much as possible with less cost and increase the ROI on AFA.

Position
Entry-level AFA is for the small and medium business customer who requires data processing for database, virtualization environment, media production, and high-computing like AI and IoT. Even large-scale business can use entry-level AFA for growing service, and adopting to higher-level AFA after the business becomes matured and requires a higher-level device.

XF2026D AFA system

How to start?
Most importantly, keep the 5Ps in mind and don’t feel forced to begin. Ask your incumbent storage vendor for more advice and do the 5Ps checklist for those options. In this case, you can find a cost-effective and best-of-breed product for your applications.

Not forget XCubeFAS is an entry-level AFA that fulfills the 5Ps checklist and even more! These systems can provide more than 300,000 IO/s under 0.5ms in 4k random write.

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