Jonmichael Hands SNIA SSD SIG/Chia Network

The total cost of ownership (TCO) provides a way to understand how customers make purchasing decisions by looking all the costs associated with purchasing and running IT equipment. Business objectives and purchasing criteria vary greatly between customers, and hence a one size fits all TCO model is not adequate for all storage workloads.

This presentation will analyze how computational storage, particularly data reduction techniques such as compression, can significantly enhance effective capacity and proportionally decrease the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) per Terabyte of storage. While these techniques can be accomplished using open-source software on CPUs, the integration of these processes directly into the storage hardware offers distinct advantages.