Why flash cloud storage beats the legacy
February 26, 2014
Grazed from TechPageOne. Author: Dennis Smith.
Low costs, availability, scalability, flexibility and speed are all ideal goals for cloud storage. New startups are benefiting from the relief in initial outlay needs for IT hardware. Older businesses are also making the shift, to cut down on maintenance costs of running in-house data centers. They find it easier to pay for what they use and expand as and when needed, as opposed to making costly upgrades and replacements.
Given the slower read ability on platter-based drives like the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) and integrated development environments (IDE), storage speeds seem to be the only bottle-neck in an otherwise ideal solution. High energy consumption is also a concern. So, can flash storage be the missing link between cloud computing and lightning-fast data processing?…
At first glance, flash storage appears to be fully capable of boosting cloud storage availability and speed. With blazing read/write speeds of 550 Mbps, this does seem like a match made in computing heaven…
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