At this week’s EMC World conference in Las Vegas, officials from the company pointed to two major storage trends as changing the future of the business - enterprise flash drives and cloud storage. In five to ten years, experts predict that these two technologies will lead to faster, more efficient storage, and highly scalable Web-based platforms that reduce demand on datacenters.
At the show, CEO Joe Tucci spoke optimistically about both technologies. He called flash “the one thing that will change the storage industry more than anything else over the next 10 years.” He also promised that Maui, the software component of EMC’s future cloud storage offering, would start shipping this summer.
