From InfoWorld: As flash gets cheaper, enterprises are spending the same amount of money on storage systems but getting more capacity.
That was the big trend in the second quarter of this year, according to IDC. Enterprise storage systems factory revenue was $8.8 billion, flat compared with last year's second quarter, but the total capacity that vendors shipped increased 12.9 percent.
Much of the credit goes to the falling price of a gigabit of flash storage, IDC analyst Liz Conner said. It's amplified by the growing popularity of flash, which enterprises are adopting for both speed and space-saving. Technology advancements help: Where enterprises last year were ordering SSDs (solid-state drives) with up to 3TB, now they can buy in bulk with units as big as 15TB.
"We’re definitely seeing bigger bang for your buck," Conner said.
All-flash arrays, which in some ways are the cutting edge of solid-state storage, commanded nearly double the spending they did a year a year earlier, Conner said.
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