With modern application environments demanding high levels of data and higher performance levels, NVMe technology has emerged that unlocks the potential of flash media, opening a new frontier in storage infrastructure design. In this report, Enterprise Strategy Group’s Senior Analyst, Scott Sinclair, explains how StorONE’s S1 All-Flash Array.next (AFAn) storage platform challenges the conceptions of traditional all-flash array design. Sinclair describes how StorONE, with its lightweight, efficient storage-as-software technology that maximizes the potential of the latest flash media innovations such as Intel Optane and QLC SSDs.