The SSD Shortage Is Exposing a Deeper Architectural Failure

Flash supply constraints are tightening. But for most enterprises, the real problem isn’t what they can’t buy, it’s what their architecture wastes. Replication alone can consume up to 66% of raw flash capacity. Add siloed protection domains and overprovisioning, and most organizations lose the majority of deployed flash before a single byte is written. VAST eliminates that waste at the platform level.