"With this, if you want to upgrade box to include traditional SAS [hard] drivers, you with all flash and add shelves of SAS," Herzog said.

By utilizing EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering software, highly accessed data can be automatically kept on SSDs while less frequently used data will be stored on slower, but higher capacity SAS hard drives, he added.

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