Commenting on demand for flash-based storage, NetApp's vice president of Product, Solution & Services Marketing, Lee Caswell believes the adoption of flash-based storage by large enterprises will increase, helping NAND flash memory prices to drop.

Caswell said demand for NAND flash memory is growing at a rate higher than the average sales growth of the storage market, especially in the Middle East and Africa, which enjoyed over 100% on-year sales growth in the second quarter of 2015.

With the price drops and the fact that users like to use flash drives to reduce costs from HDD performance bottlenecks and malfunctions, Caswell believes flash drives will gradually become a mainstream storage solution and see rising penetration.

However, rising demand for flash drives and cloud computing applications is also causing enterprises to face challenges in IT infrastructure transformation. Since converged infrastructure technology is able to reduce complications in IT hardware integration and costs, Caswell believes demand for such technologies will continue to rise in 2016.

By: DocMemory
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