OCZ has released a new white-paper that explains the position of SSD and HDD as well as hybrid solutions in an enterprise market and that two solutions can actually coexist in order to provide an optional balance of performance, capacity and cost-effectiveness, especially in specific enterprise applications as tiered storage and virtualization.

The new "The SSD/HDD balancing act in the enterprise" white-paper focuses on a hybrid approach that merges the performance advantages of SSDs with the cost-efficient capacity of traditional HDDs. The white-paper explains that the growing server workloads have led to a problem where HDDs can deliver much less input/output operations per second (IOPS), around 200 to 350 IOPS, when compared to basic servers that can handle millions of IOPS, thus making the HDD a weak link, something that SSDs can easily change.

The problem is easily fixable with hybrid tiered storage, which offer perfect solution with SSD performance and significant storage capacities of HDDs as well as lower overall investment as well as turns to problems with hybrid virtualization that sometimes leads to HDD SAN (Storage Area Network) bottlenecks.

Scott Harlin, Marketing Communications Director of Enterprise at OCZ Technology and the author of the white-paper notes that is quite clear that SSDs and HDDs will coexist in the market thus offering best from both worlds and with latest breakthroughs in virtualization and with the right mix of SSDs and HDDs you can actually achieve a balance of performance, capacity and cost efficiency, things that are most important in the enterprise market.




Source: OCZ.com.