Enabling Tier 0 Performance with SSD in Enterprise Storage Systems

Patrick Wilkison, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, STEC, Inc.

By integrating enterprise SSDs within high-performance storage arrays, a new Tier 0 performance opens up endless possibilities for high transactional enterprise storage applications. Enterprise storage systems are no longer restricted to the limitations of hard disk drives and the costly process of spreading transactional operations across hundreds of underutilized disks to compensate for performance needs. Enterprise Solid State Drives combine the performance and power efficiency of Flash technology to introduce a new era in enterprise storage. We are witnessing a paradigm shift within the storage industry and at the forefront of this threshold is the Enterprise Solid State Drives.  

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

• Examine Tier 0 Performance advantages within Enterprise storage systems
  
• Reduce TCO in infrastructure by gaining significant performance while reducing power consumption and cooling cost
  
• Realize a smaller system footprint, less rack space, less infrastructure because less HDDs are required