Solid State Drives in the Data Center

Brian Beard, Memory Strategic Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor

Critical storage and IOPS performance needs are beginning to drive the adoption of solid state drives (SSDs) in the data center. Organizations implementing SSDs benefit from increased throughput and IOPS performance versus traditional data center hard drives. Using case studies and benchmarking results, this presentation will demonstrate how SSDs bring higher reliability, lower cooling requirements and better performance for applications that require random access in the data center. It will also explore a key concern for energy-conscious data center managers and CIOs today -- power consumption. SSDs also offer a new standard of reliability that will reduce the time needed to manage equipment and offer a significant reduction of data center power consumption and total cost of ownership (TCO).  

As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to:  

• Appreciate the performance benefits of SSDs in real-life data centers
  
• Assess how the TCO can be significantly reduced while simultaneously increasing system performance through the use of SSDs
  
• Examine how and where the technology is used in the data center to optimize performance and efficiency, and how the technology is evolving for greater application

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