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How All-Flash Arrays Can Benefit Health IT Infrastructure

All-flash arrays are emerging in health IT infrastructure as the next-generation storage solution for data intensive workloads.

All-flash arrays are growing in health IT infrastructure.

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By Elizabeth O'Dowd

- As healthcare organizations continue to prepare for health IT infrastructure digitization, all-flash arrays (AFAs) are becoming more relevant as a primary storage platform because they can host a variety of mixed workloads.

A recent IDC report stated that the AFA market has evolved significantly over the past several years as organizations seek storage solutions that can accommodate mixed workload consolidation. The general move away from dedicated application deployment models has pushed entities into considering and deploying AFAs.

AFAs are made up of multiple solid-state disk drives that are more stable than the spinning disks found in hard disk drives. The flash drives transfer data faster than hard disk drives and are easier to reprogram.