56% of Respondents at VMworld Europe Have SSDs Deployed

Europe’s adoption and deployment of SSD technology shows a shift in enterprise storage – with a few surprises.

A survey of 158 attendees at VMworld Europe reveals that SSD technology is widely deployed in data centers and adoption of it will increase in the region over the next year.

At the same time, respondents indicated that SSD is no longer regarded as a luxury option, but as essential to enterprise storage, with emphasis placed on increasing IOPS and improving response times as the key reasons to adopt the technology.

STEC, Inc. released the results of that survey, conducted onsite during the VMworld Europe conference in Barcelona, Spain. Answers from surveyed attendees show that while very few European companies view implementing SSDs as providing a competitive edge, three in four say they are drawn to SSD technology because of a need for higher IOPS and higher response times. These results are similar to those from a recent survey on SSD adoption and deployment conducted at the VMworld conference in the United States.

The VMworld Europe survey revealed:

• 56% have SSDs deployed in their data centers, with 37% planning to add more to their data centers in the next year
• Just 1% believe SSDs provide a competitive advantage, while 73% cite higher IOPS and response time as reasons to adopt SSDs
• 59% identify databases as the application that will generate the most demand for SSDs over the next year

"Throughout Europe, SSD technology is penetrating cloud and data-center environments," said Davide Villa, STEC’s VP of sales, EMEA. "Our VMworld Europe survey results reflect a rapid shift to SSDs as they become central to business-critical storage."

The survey was conducted throughout the first day of VMworld Europe, among a cross-section of attendees whose professions range from end-users to enterprise-system managers to CIOs.

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