Economics of Solid State Storage: Perception and Reality

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Author(s)/Presenter(s):

Neal Ekker

Terry Yoshii

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Tutorial

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Abstract

This tutorial will explore how solid state storage (SSS) when appropriately deployed and configured offers cost benefits that will accelerate into the future. The presentation will introduce the application-based Return on Investment (ROI) formula that has driven SSS deployments until recently. Though this formula is still operative in many enterprise environments, the falling price of Flash SSS is driving ever increasing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)-based SSS deployments. The tutorial will review SSS value vectors, overview server workloads and usage models where SSS can yield lower TCO, and introduce a user-oriented TCO model allowing enterprise assessment using end user specifications and input.