Don’t worry… we don’t plan to tell this story using a lot of cute medical or pet metaphors (aside from the title and sub-title of this article). The PedMed Express case study is a serious example of a business that was faced with database and application issues, which were leading them toward every IT manager’s nightmare…replacing their existing storage infrastructure. With I/O bottlenecks slowing down its daily reporting and warehouse operations, PedMed Express was on the verge of making the costly decision to replace its storage infrastructure with a higher performance solution, but was cautious about the issues around SSD reliability.
