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The storage industry is awash with reports on the disappearing disk drive industry and many are hailing the end of the spinning disk drive. However before we get carried away in the euphoria of an all flash based industry it is worth standing back and taking a pragmatic look at the industry at large, the reason why Flash has become such a hot category and finally, how to best utilize flash technology within a big data environment. By Panasas.

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