A Different Approach to Solid State Storage in the Cloud

emBy Mark Carlson, Vice Chair SNIA Technical council (Toshiba)/em pFirst published in a href="http://digitalisationworld.com/section/1" target="_blank"DCS Europe/a - October 2015/p pWith the increasing use of the Cloud comes the desire to improve the performance of cloud hosted operations. In response, several cloud providers have started to offer solid state storage for cloud computing workloads. This article provides an overview of these offerings and compares the different approaches. Also discussed are the caveats that might be of concern to specific customers. /p