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The crucial need for a hardware-optimized platform

for business-critical applications

Published February 2015

Amid all the talk of a software-defined storage infrastructure, it is easy to forget the crucial role played by hardware-optimized storage platforms in supporting business-critical workloads. This is not to say that software-defined storage infrastructure has no place in the modern datacenter - in fact, it is quite the opposite.

However, IDC believes that by combining software-defined elements with purpose-built hardware, platforms like the NetApp FAS8080 EX offer an unparalleled value proposition when it comes to solving some of the key challenges faced by businesses today.