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    Whats Driving Solid-State Storage Demand?

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    Chris Preimesberger
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    July 18, 2011
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      1Whats Driving Solid-State Storage Demand?

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      Enterprise hard disk drives are often bottlenecks for business applications. Enterprises need consistent performance and reliability from the storage products they buy and quality of service from their storage vendors. There is always a need for higher speed in high-volume storage applications.

      2Values That SSDs Bring

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      SSDs accelerate application performance, reduce storage latency and increase storage throughput. They also reduce storage power consumption and data center cooling requirements along with the overall environmental footprint and support costs. Finally, they eliminate most of the mechanical elements that make HDDs more susceptible to failures over time.

      3SSDs Must Match Up With the Right Applications

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      HDDs can satisfy the storage performance more cost-effectively in certain storage subsystems. Applications that are still ideal for HDDs include: heavy sequential write environments; applications where data is accessed infrequently; applications for which high performance is not critical; long-term storage and large data archives/data sets; and secondary or tertiary storage.

      4Markets, Applications That Benefit From Solid-State Storage

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      The most appropriate examples include servers handling the most mission-critical and latency-sensitive applications environments, applications requiring high random Input/Output Operations, and active data that’s accessed frequently and repetitively.

      5Best Deployment Options for Server-Based Solid-State Storage

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      Examples: SSDs with RAID HBA; caching and tiering with SSDs for HDDs; SSD-optimized RAID controller; and SSD storage on PCIe Adapter.

      6Highest Performance, Lowest Latency Storage With RAID

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      Examples: Financial applications including high-performance trading, OLTP databases, SAP, Oracle financial applications, data warehousing, reporting and analytics, Web 2.0 applications, and Website content access.

      7Boosting Performance With Minimal Change and Limited Budget

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      Examples: Video production and editing, video-on demand, big data processing applications, data forensics and analysis, Web 2.0 access and high-traffic Websites, and social media.

      8Large Protected Dataset/Small Active Data Set

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      Examples: High-volume databases, data warehousing, online transaction processing and Web retail sales portals.

      9Large Protected Dataset/Medium Active Dataset

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      Examples: Medical and health care applications including health records, charts and images. Another important application includes imaging, such as 3D modeling, banking records along with image analysis applications such as oil and gas exploration and scientific analysis.

      10Solid-State Storage Buying Decisions

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      Before deciding to buy SSD systems, assess the complete needs of your environment. Select solutions tailored to your unique needs. Narrow down your vendor options to either best of breed or complete portfolio, depending on the diversity of your needs. Weigh stability and broad market support of Tier 1 supplier versus the upside of going with new offerings from emerging vendors in this nascent market segment.

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