Cloud is also driving evolutionary change in its components, like server microvisors for stronger security, low cost Flash storage for large data sets and energy-saving chips.

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This week the company launched Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup.

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Eliminating underutilized servers will lower energy usage so consolidation and virtualization can cut data storage costs as well as enable low-cost disaster recovery capabilities.

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While Fibre Channel storage networking technology offers up to 16 Gbps data rates low cost, high speed Ethernet connectivity is raising its head.

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The flash cache is used to store frequently accessed data providing the fast data response found in solid state drives while the hard disk storage provides low cost storage.

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