Given all the hoopla around Dell’s proposed $67 billion buyout of EMC, it may come as a shock that EMC is still churning out new storage offerings. But storage is, after all, the business that built EMC. This week EMC is making the new DSSD D5 flash storage box available as a unit that plugs directly into a data center’s server racks, providing flash storage to servers running Hadoop or other analytics. These jobs need a fast lane between where the data is stored and where that data is processed. Flash, or solid-state, storage, differs from traditional disk drives in speed…
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