Solid-State Array Supports Future Health IT Infrastructure

Solid-state array (SSA) storage is growing in healthcare as organizations seek scalable and flexible storage options for increasingly digitized health IT infrastructure. Gartner predicted in its 2017 magic quadrant for SSAs that SSA performance will improve drastically, doubling in density and cost-effectiveness, within the next year. Gartner also predicted that 50 percent of data centers will use SSAs for high-performance computing and big data workloads by 2021. SSA is 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.