The need to accelerate business critical applications is driving enterprises to search for ever faster storage and network connectivity. Indeed, 2018 seems to be the year in which every sector of the economy is asking if it’s possible to gain quicker insight from business analytics software — even while data sets to be analyzed are continuing to grow in size.
For this reason, the real price of storage is no longer the cost of data at rest, but the velocity at which it travels over a network and the time it takes to draw meaningful, actionable conclusions from it. This is why enterprises are starting to explore NVMe-oF (Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabric), particularly financial services businesses, online retailers, cloud service providers, and healthcare companies.