Solid State Drives in Enterprise

Richard Coulson, Intel Senior Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation

Mission critical storage applications focused on raw I/O performance, and those requiring the highest levels of reliability, are driving the adoption of solid state disks (SSD's) in the enterprise. SSD's today offer advantages in both throughput and IOPS vs traditional enterprise hard drives. Additinally, the use of SSDs can result in significant reduction in system level TCO as well as reliability gains and power savings. The performance and manageability demands of I/O intensive applications have forced customers to build costly server and storage infrastructure to maintain an acceptable response to I/O requests. Budgets are shrinking and space and energy costs are driving purchasing decisions. SSDs are key to developing solutions to meet I/O and TCO demands of this critical segment.  

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

• Appreciate the system level performance benefit of using NAND-based Solid State Drives in a variety of Enterprise applications
  
• Assess how the total cost of ownership (TCO) can be significantly reduced while simultaneously increasing system performance through the use of NVM-based drives
  
• Get a snapshot of future advantages of NVM outside of the traditional HDD Form Factors

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