This model is driving the growth of digital storage in data centers and thus the sale of hard disk drives, tape storage and flash memory used in enterprise storage tiers for these data centers.
In a recent report by research firm IHS iSuppli, the sale of solid-state NAND flash drives are projected to increase by 400% in 2011 driven by increasing adoption of tablets which primarily use flash memory for datastorage.
In developing early data processing systems, the high cost of memory and storage led to a premium being placed on the efficiency of application data access and retrieval.