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We all want to, so why can’t we kick the hard-drive habit? It’s not today’s data-analytics and artificial-intelligence workloads. They call for the fastest flash storage available. We’re still using sluggish HDDs for their modest pricing. So what happens when flash is priced equal to HDD? HDDs go on display in the museum, companies are finally able to do AI at scale and, strangely enough, they use more tape.
This is according to Renen Hallak (pictured, left), founder and chief executive officer of Vast Data Inc. Since its founding five years ago, Vast has been on a mission to kill HDDs, according to Hallak. The challenge to accomplishing this and its solution are simple: “To kill HDD, you need to get price parity; flash and hard drives are not at price parity today,” he stated.