The release of Infinidat’s F24NT InfiniBox™ SSA G4 all-flash array in September 2025 introduced a fundamental shift in the enterprise storage landscape toward a new standard of high-density, NVMe-driven performance in a very small 11RU footprint. As enterprises face the many pressures of exponential data growth, shrinking data center footprints, and skyrocketing power bills, the market is pivoting toward enterprise storage platforms that provide massive throughput, scalability, comprehensive cyber storage resilience, and energy efficiency, not found with traditional legacy vendors.

In fact, Gartner has highlighted a structural shift toward NVMe in enterprise storage, recently stating: “During 2026, over 30% of on-premises storage will use NVMe SSDs, up from <5% in 2023.” That’s not surprising. The major advantage of NVMe-based storage systems is their significantly faster data transfer speeds compared to older storage technologies like SAS-3/4. With PCIe 4.0/5.0, it is multiple times faster than SAS-3/4 in every metric: bandwidth, IOPS, and latency.

• Bandwidth: NVMe ≈ 3–6× SAS
• IOPS: NVMe ≈ 2–5× SAS
• Latency: NVMe ≈ 2–3× lower

Infinidat has validated these industry findings with our own research across a number of Infinidat Global Fortune 500 and large enterprise customers who have purchased the InfiniBox SSA G4 F24NT. Based on our global customers across the Defense, Fintech, Healthcare, Gaming, and Cloud Service Provider (CSP) sectors, our research confirms this “structural shift.” Customers are not only adding capacity but are also strategically displacing incumbents to consolidate workloads onto the F24NT. Whether it is supporting IOPS-dense container environments or bandwidth-intensive Data Warehouse (DWH) workloads, the F24NT has proven to be the pivot point for infrastructure modernization with our Global Fortune 500 customers. Let’s break this down…

Top Reasons for Acquisition: The Decision Drivers

We discovered, from our large enterprise customers, that the transition to the F24NT is driven by several recurring technical imperatives that bridge the gap between IT operations and business strategy. Our recent global customer enterprise data center deployments reveal these primary drivers:

1. The NVMe Mandate

For the modern enterprise, NVMe has transitioned from a premium "nice-to-have" to a strict architectural requirement.

• At a premier Cloud Service Provider (CSP), intense industry pressure and competitor performance benchmarks made NVMe a non-negotiable requirement for their next-generation environment
• Similarly, one of our Global Fortune 500 fintech customers reported that NVMe was the "strict requirement" that governed their vendor selection. In the high-velocity world of finance, the latency penalties of older protocols are unacceptable. The F24NT provided the necessary end-to-end NVMe path to ensure their DWH could meet demanding processing windows.

2. Performance and Throughput

The F24NT is being selected for environments where performance is "on the leading edge" of technical requirements and future performance demand is high.

• The CSP customer reported the system is "flying." Crucially, they noted that a major customer’s workload is being delivered entirely out of DRAM with Infinidat’s multi-patented Neural Cache technology, resulting in near-zero latency that NVMe alone cannot match
• A gaming customer reported that initial production feedback is "very positive,” particularly regarding the system’s ability to handle the bursty nature of gaming workloads
• Another existing Global Fortune 500 InfiniBox® customer described the performance jump as "remarkable," leading to high confidence for their upcoming future deployment.

3. Physical and Operational Efficiency: Density & Power Efficiency

Today’s data centers are often space- and power-constrained, driving primary architectural requirements for increased energy efficiency and increased physical density.

• A Global Fortune 500 healthcare customer explicitly chose the F24NT because they had strictly limited space in existing racks, where adding a new cabinet was physically impossible. The small rack footprint (11U) enabled them to avoid the disruptive and costly installation of additional racks in a data center already bursting at the seams
• This density advantage was even more pronounced at the CSP customer, where engineers successfully configured two full F24NT systems into a single rack, a major win for data center floor-space economics. This "rack-and-stack" efficiency was a primary selling point, enabling them to double their high-performance capacity without increasing their physical footprint
• Another large CSP customer reported that the improved power efficiency and smaller footprint of the F24NT drove their purchase decision.

4. Pricing and Economic Value

The economic profile of the F24NT leverages hardware advancements to drive down the total cost of ownership.

• Our gaming customer identified the "Price per TB" and the architectural consistency with existing Infinidat systems as major factors in selecting the InfiniBox SSA G4 F24NT all-flash solution
• The Global Fortune 500 healthcare customer noted that the F24NT is the "best price/performance option" available in the current market.

Analysis of Specific Applications and Workloads

In our research, the F24NT is currently powering some of the most diverse and demanding workloads in our Global Fortune 500 and large enterprise customer base, including:

F24NT Workload and Protocol Distribution

Technical Protocol and Architecture Trends

Our customers’ enterprise environments with the InfiniBox SSA G4 F24NT also indicate that, while Fibre Channel (FC) remains the foundational protocol for high-performance enterprise storage, there is a clear trend toward unified storage flexibility where the F24NT is serving as a multiprotocol platform to consolidate disparate "point solutions." Our gaming customer is already utilizing NAS (File) alongside block protocols for its homegrown gaming infrastructure and has plans to integrate S3 (Object) shortly.

Conclusion: Future-Proofing the Data Center

The high-end enterprise storage landscape is currently undergoing a fundamental transformation, and our small form-factor F24NT has emerged as a disruptive force within this highly competitive market. The InfiniBox SSA G4 F24NT offers a value proposition that combines high-density engineering with the throughput necessary for diverse data-intensive operations. These insights demonstrate how the F24NT is not merely competing with legacy incumbents, but is actively redefining expectations for performance, physical footprint, and architectural efficiency. As we analyze the feedback from diverse sectors—ranging from managed services to defense—a clear pattern emerges: the transition to all-NVMe infrastructure is no longer a future goal but a present-day operational requirement for the modern enterprise.

Tim Dales is a Product Marketing Manager at Infinidat, a Lenovo company. Tim has over 30 years’ experience in the development, marketing and sales of IT infrastructures. A former Sr. Analyst at a storage analyst firm working with the Dell/EMC product team on APEX and creating launch collateral for Pure Storage. He has also held positions as an executive for networking vendor Solarflare, product marketing and sales for a CDP startup, MTI, and Emulex.