StorONE introduced its 9x ROI on Flash Program, an initiative aimed at helping organizations significantly maximize the return on their flash storage investments. The program is designed to eliminate inefficiencies and reduce the traditional cost barriers associated with all-flash environments, while still delivering the high-performance capabilities required for active, mission-critical data. By optimizing how flash resources are utilized, StorONE enables enterprises to extract greater value without compromising speed, reliability, or scalability.
The 9x ROI on Flash Program enables enterprises to increase effective storage capacity by up to nine times by intelligently combining flash performance with lower-cost capacity tiers without replacing flash or changing applications. The program is delivered as part of StorONE platform v3.9, which introduced new intelligent data placement and auto-tiering capabilities that enable the program at scale.
Breaking the Flash Bottleneck
The 9x ROI on Flash Program addresses the core challenge behind rising storage costs and ongoing supply-chain volatility. By combining an existing flash tier with a lower-cost HDD tier, StorONE automatically manages data placement in real time, keeping hot data on flash while moving warm and cold data to HDD transparently and continuously. The result is tier-one performance where it matters, and tier-two economics where it doesn’t.
As part of the 9x ROI on Flash Program, organizations can redeploy existing all-flash JBODs under StorONE software as the flash performance tier of a unified storage system.
An HDD capacity tier is added for the majority of data, while StorONE continuously and automatically promotes and demotes data based on live access patterns without application changes and without manual intervention.
Unlike approaches that rely on deduplication or compression, StorONE delivers real-time data efficiency through automated data placement, avoiding the additional memory and CPU overhead associated with data reduction techniques. The StorONE architecture is designed for direct, inline writes that do not depend on DRAM-intensive buffering, reducing overall memory requirements while sustaining consistent write performance.
“As the founder of StorWize, we were the first to bring real-time, inline compression to enterprise storage,” said Gal Naor, CEO of StorONE. “I know both worlds extremely well. Data reduction has its place, but it is inherently dependent on the data itself. Auto-tiering works on every type of data and delivers certainty. That’s why it’s the more resilient and correct architectural approach. The 9x ROI on Flash Program is about breaking the flash bottleneck, providing organizations with a way to grow capacity intelligently without paying the all-flash tax.”
For more information on the 9x ROI on Flash Program that is available immediately through the StorONE platform, visit the website here.
Join StorONE’s Gal Naor and James Keating at an upcoming webinar on March 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (9:00 AM Pacific) to discuss ״The Architecture Behind 9× ROI on Flash: What True Smart Auto-Tiering Actually Requires.״
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