Around 2020, operational data ran on flash storage,
Existing disk storage will be used for backup or archiving purposes.

Last year, the all-flash market reached 30.9 billion won, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 99.1%. If hybrid flash arrays (HFAs) are included, the market size increases by more than five times, making the shift to all-flash storage seem like a natural progression. Consequently, the influence of NAND flash on the storage market is on the rise, affecting everything from major corporations to startups.

EMC Korea announced the 'EMC DSSD D5' all-flash storage at the InterContinental Hotel in Samseong-dong on March 3. According to EMC Korea, the DSSD D5, designed for high-performance and high-density data processing, is a product that achieves high bandwidth and performance of up to 10 million IPOS (Input/Output Operations per Second). While the processing speed of 'All-Flash Arrays (AFA)' is generally considered to be about 10 times faster than 'HDD storage,' EMC explained that the DSSD D5 demonstrates a performance difference of 10 times compared to the latest AFAs and 100 times compared to HDDs.

Based on this performance, the DSSD D5 can support tasks that were beyond the capabilities of existing storage, such as real-time financial transaction analysis, financial risk analysis, financial fraud monitoring, virus and security pattern analysis, and credit card payment approval. In addition, the financial authorities recommended that the banking sector separate its internet network and business network between its head office and branches by December 2015, and the non-banking financial sector by December 2016, and the financial sector has already begun full-scale network separation projects.

EMC established the field of 'Rack-Scale Flash' by combining the advantages of 'All-Flash Arrays' and 'Server-Attached Flash'. 'Rack-Scale Flash' refers to an architecture where CPUs (server modules) and flash modules communicate directly within a single rack to rapidly process large volumes of data.

Announcement of 'Modern Data Center Strategy'
We will focus on implementing all-flash-based modern data.

This means that the DSSD D5 can connect up to 48 servers in a 5U appliance, enabling data-intensive workloads; it connects to each node via 3rd generation PCI and maximizes flash performance through NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) technology. The physical capacity reaches 144 TB (terabytes), and the available capacity reaches 100 TB.

In addition, EMC announced an all-flash-based 'Modern Data Center Strategy' along with the launch of DSSD D5, following 'VMAX All-Flash'. The strategy is to transition to an all-flash environment in 2016 to help companies respond to third-generation platforms.

Kim Kyung-jin, President of EMC Korea, predicted, “By 2020, most operational data will run on flash storage, and existing disk storage will be used for backup or archiving purposes,” and stated, “We plan to make 2016 the ‘first year of all-flash’ by applying flash to our entire product line, and actively pursue business to realize modern data centers for enterprises.”