EMC released the next generation of storage performance and ILM breakthrough through solid state disks (SSD) over a year ago. Today, they continue to be the only major vendor to provide Flash as an offering. SSD in the storage world is also known as Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD). Now these are not your typical off the shelf USB thumb drives that use SSD. We are talking about capabilities and an internal architecture that enables wicked performance, internal caching, exponentially faster response times (sub, millisecond versus millisecond) and limitless read and write hits.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - I demonstrate below that not only are flash drives practical in use, but also lower cost, and a far greater strategy that will set you apart from your competition. I give you a mathematical example, and provide you to a press release of an EMC customer who has applied flash drives to their CRM application, to out with their competition.
Let's see the math, that proves lower cost through hardware assets, administrative reduction, and power consumption.
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