Modern business is data and technology-driven. New business models, new ways of interacting with customers, and new ways for companies to leverage data built on modern and transformative and disruptive technologies. Nearly all of these new technologies have similarities in the demands they place on the underlying infrastructure technology. They are massively data processing intensive.
Enterprise Storage Strategy has always been important, but given the stakes for businesses in being able to run massively data-intensive applications to fuel their business models, the importance of storage is elevated. This paper considers how and why flash storage provides the core for modern business applications.