The highly scalable architecture allows the number of flash channel expanders to be increased depending on the performance and capacity requirements of a particular application.
Flush on the heels of the Flash Memory Summit, VM World in San Francisco was the haven of a great many storage system companies, many of who demonstrated flash memory as part of their storage architecture.
Until smartphone-class devices become powerful enough to run Flash acceptably (or Hulu supports other video playback methods), a PC-based architecture will generally have the advantage in this burgeoning category.
But the rise of super fast, all-Flash storage systems, which have been the traditional bottleneck of entreprise information systems, will have serious consequences on the architecture of the next generation enterprise IT.