Falling flash prices are a boon to enterprise storage buyers

As flash gets cheaper, enterprises are spending the same amount of money on storage systems but getting more capacity.That was the big trend in the second quarter of this year, according to IDC. Enterprise storage systems factory revenue was US$8.8 billion, flat compared with last year's second quarter, but the total capacity that vendors shipped increased 12.9 percent.Much of the credit goes to the falling price of a gigabit of flash storage, IDC analyst Liz Conner said. It's amplified by the g