This coupled with the fact that big businesses have to cope with increasing computing workloads in server virtualization environments and cloud computing, that soon disk storage will look outdated.

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Retrieving and storing data from a hard-disk drive takes one million times longer than accessing it from server memory, a difference that can severely degrade application performance.

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