A topic The SSD Guy often brings up in presentations is the fact that SSDs can be used in enterprise applications to reduce server count, a phenomenon often called: “Server Consolidation.” This is a confusing issue, so it bears some explanation.
There are lots of ways to accelerate an I/O-bound application. The most direct one is to speed up the I/O. In the past this has involved some pretty elaborate ways of using HDDs in arrays with striping and short stroking. Many of these arrays cost a half million dollars or more.
Another is to hide the slow I/O speed by Continue reading “SSDs and Server Consolidation”
