The same clients who are purchasing NT-based servers for some client and application servers are sticking with Unix for business-critical applications, Yeates said.

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Their survey showed that 62% of respondents have SSDs deployed in their data centers, 63% plan to add more SSDs within one year, just 5% believe that SSDs provide a competitive advantage, whiel 60% cite higher IOPS and faster response time while 56% say that less than 50% of their business-critical applications are currently supported by SSDs.

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