We’ve been talking about deploying solid-state drives (SSDs) in the data center for years now, but it’s never been a more exciting time to talk data center storage. Modern enterprise tools, including cloud, big data, the Internet of Things, and software-defined infrastructures are opening up new opportunities and amazing new ways of doing business that we’ve never imagined before.

 Seems too good to be true, right? Well, yes and no. These new tools demand serious storage performance, and they’re putting the squeeze on existing spinning disk storage methods. The hard drive has become a huge bottleneck in terms of being able to leverage these great new technologies, but there is a solution at hand and, as we mentioned above, we’ve been talking about it for years. The timing is just right for SSDs to make their heyday in the data center.

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