Finding a cost-effective data center solid-state drive (SSD) is easier than you may think. The technology has progressed far in recent years, lowering barriers to entry with cheaper, more responsive, and more reliable
16-nanometer NAND flash memory. And the timing couldn’t be better, because enterprises everywhere need enhanced hardware solutions to power their private and hybrid cloud deployments.

Cloud computing poses a unique set of challenges for data centers, which must continually innovate to make sure the business stays competitive. Enterprise IT services, including private cloud and consumer-facing web services, generate explosive volumes of unstructured data. We’re talking about things such as text, images, audio, video, and virtual machine mirror images. These exist predominantly as static files that simply need to be stored for frequent retrieval, but they’re unlikely to be modified or deleted all that often. Ultimately this means that a read-intensive storage solution is the best choice to optimize data center performance for the cloud.

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