The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.

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As a result of this flexibility and additional capabilities direct attached storage (DAS) used to build big enterprise storage systems that serve applications from big science to cloud computing will be able to offer faster performance and data protection and allowing faster data processing and content generation.

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