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EMC executives contend that enterprise flash drives and cloud storage will profoundly change their industry over the next five to 10 years, offering faster, more efficient storage, and highly scalable Web-based platforms that Reduce demand on datacenters.At this week's EMC World in Las Vegas, the company's annual meeting for customers, partners, analysts and media, CEO Joe Tucci and his team spoke optimistically about both technologies and offered a few details on how EMC intends to utilize them.Tucci called flash "the one thing that will change the storage industry more than anything else over the next 10 years." He also promised that Maui, the software component of EMC's future cloud storage offering, would start shipping this summer. (Compare storage products.)The potential of flash and cloud storage "are the two themes that are starting to resonate as far as what's next," says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau. "Cloud computing has been getti

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