HDDs provide the majority of low latency mass storage in most enterprise storage environments and a denser storage device that requires less power to run will help reduce the costs of on-line and enterprise storage even lower than it is today.

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Backblaze represents one approach to reduce the costs of digital storage and other enterprise hardware.

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The market for mission critical enterprise storage solutions will continue grow as enterprises try to save energy costs and reduce network complexity by moving network traffic to dedicated storage area networks.

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