October 2017, IDC #US43168917 Vendor Profile Rack-Scale Flash Vendor Excelero Leverages Performance and Efficiency Advantages to Drive Compelling Customer Value Eric Burgener IDC OPINION As the industry moves in the direction of digital transformation, next-generation workloads are becoming more common. This is as true for service providers as it is for enterprises running their own on-premises infrastructure. The performance and scale requirements of these next-generation workloads often outpace the capabilities of SCSI-based storage platforms, and this is driving a strong demand for and interest in NVMe technology. Storage systems built around NVMe — what IDC calls rack-scale flash systems — first shipped in 2016, and we are seeing strong adoption of these platforms for next-gener

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