If you want to truly gain competitive edge in the market by leveraging the power of data for decision making, then your data team has to collect and store data appropriately to enable easy and seamless access by business users.

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Until recently, the cost to store, access and analyze big data was so high that only government and a few business models could justify the cost.

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And AgigA Tech makes so-called non-volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) that helps people store and retrieve rapidly changing data far more quickly than the slow-poke disk drive technology that keeps data centers humming.

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Most recently, stiff competition and the rising cost of improving chips has made it even harder for surviving makers of dynamic random-access memory, the chips known as DRAMs that are used to store data in personal computers and server systems.

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And once all of that data comes into being, you need a way to store it all securely and allow end-users to access it efficiently.

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