Intelligent Controllers at the heart of modern Solid State Storage Designs

The advent of advanced controllers and firmware is allowing transparent mitigation of earlier issues related to reliability, endurance, data retention, performance, ease of management and quick integration of SSDs using exiting storage interfaces. But Automated Storage Tiering Software tools, using workload I/O access forensics and behavior signatures monitored over time and the ensuing smart migration of hot data non-disruptively to SSDs has been the key design in obtaining over 475% improvement in IOPS and 80% improvement in response time at peak loads

Learning Objectives

Learn the innards of new generation of intelligent SSD storage controllers and automated smart-tiering designs as to how they improve the performance, cost, reliability and endurance characteristics of SSDs including workloads that benefit the most from the use of SSDs in enterprise storage systems.
How advanced SSD controllers and firmware transparently mitigate earlier issues related to reliability, endurance, data retention, performance, ease of management and quick integration using exiting storage interfaces
Comparison of ECC technologies deployed in SSD Controllers in future Flash technologies