At the beginning of 2014, there was a lot of chatter about it being the year for the enterprise storage industry, with many commentators using “phenomenal” as their preferred description. However, it is doubtful that anyone fully appreciated just how big the change would be.
Flash technology is changing how we work, live and play today. You may not always see flash, but much of your daily activity is fuelled by it. It’s all around us, part of every step we take and even when we rest. Devices monitor our sleep and our homes; did you check today’s temperature on your phone? Or use it to monitor your morning run? Using a GPS device to navigate through traffic en-route to your next meeting? All of those activities are made possible by flash-enabled devices.
When our data leaves our personal devices, it often hits a cloud data centre where all that data is being stored, archived, backed up and even analysed to deliver us the services we rely on and ensure our digital records and files are safely stored and readily available. Flash is also transforming the server and storage industry, penetrating data centres across all applications and tiers.
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