Leveraging an industry-leading feature-set, the Agility 4 SSD series offers superior endurance and reliability without the need for internal data compression (that typically leads to decreased performance of ubiquitous files types).
However even with data center developments such as compression, virtualization and deduplication the costs of on-line storage exceed that of local storage and the performance of on-line storage is significantly less than local storage.
As we have seen in the recent reports with Google and Amazon, investors viewed margin compression in previous quarters as red flags, when in fact the increased costs were investments that reaped stellar performance recently.