With the whole data explosion taking place across the globe, the need for advanced and effective data processing technology is evidently the need of hour. With an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created daily around the globe, the highly competitive market for storage and networking solutions represents a large, fast-growing business opportunity. Sharing his point of view on flash and other storage related technology, Ambuj Goyal, general manager, IBM System Storage and Networking believes that right now flash is at a tipping point in the storage industry. For people flash represents storage but for IBM that signifies the way data centers and systems would be designed.
"Smartphones wouldn't even exist if we were to incorporate disk drives instead of Flash memory in them.", said Ambuj. Flash, if used as final tier of data testing, changes the design of data systems. A typical data center setup in an organization (large or small) comprises of a few racks of servers, storage, and networking with applications like ERP, Analytics, etc. Organizations are able to reduce the number of servers required with virtualization, but not storage. However, the moment you incorporate flash based storage, then it's not just the storage that can be compressed, you can even compress the number of servers and amount of networking, which results in improved capacity and density. This completely transforms the way a data center functions.MORE
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