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April 2017, Vol. 16, No. 2

Smarter storage starts with analytics

The amount of data available to today's enterprise is staggering. Yet the race to collect and mine even more data to gain competitive insight, deeply optimize business processes and better inform strategic decision-making is accelerating. Fueled by these new data-intensive capabilities, traditional enterprise business applications primarily focused on operational transactions are now quickly converging with advanced big data analytics to help organizations grow increasingly (albeit artificially) intelligent. To help IT keep pace with data-intensive business applications that are now embedding operational analytics, data center infrastructure is also evolving rapidly. In-memory computing, massive server-side flash, software-defined resources and scale-out platforms are a few of the recent growth areas reshaping today's data centers. In particular, we are seeing storage infrastructure, long considered the slow-changing anchor of the data center, transforming faster than ever. You might say that we're seeing smarter storage. Modern...

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