The Future of Hard Disk Drives

Is the death of hard disk drives in the enterprise greatly exaggerated?

Core business applications like big data will continue to need HDDs

Desire Athow | October 26, 2015

TechRadar Pro: Let's start with the key question which is the headline of this article – is the death of hard disk drives in the enterprise greatly exaggerated? And if yes, why?
Barbara Murphy: The short answer is yes. Enterprise IT is in a constant evolutionary lifecycle. What was once essential for running mission and business critical applications in the past, no longer applies to the demands of business today. While it is accepted that Flash will have significant penetration on traditional SAN systems, high capacity spinning disks will remain the storage of choice for broad cloud infrastructure.

Source: http://jem499.blogspot.com/2011/10/tablets-and-clouds-may-drive.html

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