Are SSDs Ready for Enterprise Storage Systems?

Computer architects dream of storage devices for their applications/workloads which can provide very high IOPs at minimal cost (IOPS/$/GB) using infinite cheap storage and instant access (low latency) Enterprise-Ready SSDs ©IMEX have started to fulfill that promise, segmented into SATA and PCIe based Hybrid Storage products. One factor for their quick adoption has been the advent of new controllers and firmware which have allowed them to transparently mitigate early issues related to reliability, endurance, data retention, performance, ease of management and integration using exiting storage interfaces. But the killer software tool for their success in the enterprise has been Automated Storage Tiering activated by monitoring workload I/O access signatures and behavior over time and smart non-disruptive migration of hot data to SSDs, resulting in over 200% improvement in IOPS and 80% improvement in response time at peak loads

Learning Objectives

The presentation delineates the technology, storage characteristics (performance, cost, reliability and endurance etc.), applications that benefit the most from their usage, system implementation in enterprise storage systems, workloads optimization using automated smart-tiering by vertical industry needs and the economics of SSDs usage using real market data.
The presentation will illustrate case studies in real life SANs showing how optimally selected hybrid storage of SSDs and HDDs can achieve 65% lower TCO, 475% higher IOPS and 165% lower footprint while achieving a whopping 800% in $/IOPs in SANs and other storage systems in different scenarios