Put Some Big Flash Behind Your Cloud Screen
June 24, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Hilary Kramer.
The buzz around cloud computing has been a boon for the companies that deliver the enterprise services and run the server farms where the processing power and the data actually reside. But as the theme matures, the list of opportunities may be broader than you think.
To find them, it helps to cut through a little of the hype. Migrating to the “cloud” may be worth $35 billion to enterprise IT this year alone, but the move only passes the headache of having to host the software back up to the cloud vendor. Bigger clouds still need faster servers, more direct pipes to the Internet backbone and above all more storage space to hold all the data clients formerly kept on in-house drives…
In other words, mass-market computer manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard HPQ -3.48% and Dell DELL -0.26% may be struggling as the customers who used to buy one or two servers at a time head for the cloud, but demand for true supercomputers is as strong as ever. And that’s where high-performance Flash drives come into play. Data storage is already a $50 billion business as the wired world generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of information every day—enough to need 75,000 new terabyte drives a month just to keep up. And spinning disk drives are cheap, but at cloud scale they simply don’t stack well enough to stream the files as fast as modern applications need it…
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