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Towards an All-Flash Data Centre
: How close are to the age of the all-flash data centre?

Towards an All-Flash Data Centre

According to a recent report, more than 90 percent of the performance issues affecting applications these days can be traced back to storage. Does flash technology provide the answer? In this program, we find out.

Flash storage has taken the enterprise by storm, offering better performance, lower energy consumption and greater resilience in comparison to traditional hard disk drives. The trade-off, up until now at least, has been cost. But with prices plummeting, that picture is changing – to the extent experts are now predicting the age of the all-flash data centre isn’t far away. MeetTheBoss TV’s Ben Thompson caught up with SanDisk’s Henri Richard to ask when that day might be, and why flash is proving so compelling.