CIOReview
| | November 20158CIOReviewnsights from mobile and so-cial data are helping busi-nesses make better deci-sions--deepen-ing customer engagement, optimiz-ing operations, preventing threats and fraud, and capitalizing on new sources of revenue. Smart business-es realize that for business insights to be actionable and effective, data has to be refined, easily accessible and analyzed at a speed of flash to create value. It is the time to draw insights that determines success or failure of modern business.In this insights economy high velocity analytics are key and flash storage contributes significantly to business success and growth. And the impact of flash storage is being felt across industries. Many enterprises will increase their adoption of flash technology; in fact, according to Gartner, 25 percent of all mission-critical workloads will be supported by flash arrays by 2019.The healthcare industry is aggressively evolving on multiple fronts to satisfy increasing demands from divergent entities. Nurses use mobile carts with built-in laptops to chart information regarding their patients. Every time a nurse checks a patient, dispenses medication, or takes vital signs, information is logged into a laptop wirelessly connected to the hospital's network. This data is recorded into a backend database where information regarding the patient is stored. For hospitals with hundreds of patients and hundreds of employees, this puts tremendous pressure on the database applications. Generating high numbers of both read and write cycles lead to longer latencies when accessing traditional hard drives. Hard disk drives are just too slow. The fastest hard disk drives have peak performance access times of only 5 milliseconds. Flash storage can reduce this significantly making instant care a reality. For example, by removing the latency opinionin myIDoing Business at the Speed of FlashBy Michael Kuhn, VP, IBM Enterprise Storage, IBM CorporationMichael Kuhn
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