Our quest to find and use locked up data value along with the need for fast analytics and enhanced in-place data analytics drive new ways of thinking about storage. Some are evolutionary; some are revolutionary.

For years we used hard disk drives (HDDs) for our business intelligence analytics systems. When we wanted faster performance2 ,we used HDDs with more revolutions per minute (RPM) — an evolutionary approach.

When Lenovo introduced Micron’s 5210 ION — the world’s first quad-level cell datacenter SSD – into their ThinkSystem® platforms, they narrowed the affordability gap between performance HDD-based systems and those with SSDs, broadening the workloads that benefit from SSDs — a revolutionary approach.

This technical solution brief highlights the analytics (business intelligence/decision support systems, BI/DSS) capabilities of an enterprise QLC SSD-based x86 platform compared to a legacy platform using 10K RPM 2.4TB HDDs.3