In recognition of Earth Day, we thought we’d publish a post on a certain “green” topic that we’re passionate about around here—the power and performance efficiencies achieved by using SSDs in enterprise servers. As you know, Micron has a lot to say on the topic, so we decided change it up a bit and bring in a longtime storage industry veteran to provide a different perspective. (BTW, we’ll have more to say on Micron SSDs in the enterprise here soon … stay tuned.)
While at Storage Networking World last week, we had the chance to meet up with Ray Lucchesi, president and lead storage analyst with Silverton Consulting, as well as blogger extraordinaire for RayOnStorage.com. We asked him to shed some light on the role of SSDs “greening-up” the data center:
Thanks for talking with us. To kick off the discussion, let’s look big picture at the challenges facing data centers today. Could you provide a little insight for our readers on what the top issues are for data center managers?
I think the problems facing data centers today center around 3 main themes:
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