You’ll find it inside the top-secret data centers that run Google. It provides extra speed at Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, and countless other operations across the web. And now, Amazon is offering it up to the rest of the world via its massively popular cloud service, letting you slip it under your own online applications — without actually installing it in your own data center. What is it? It’s flash — the super-fast storage hardware that’s gradually replacing traditional hard disks across the web and beyond.
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