ESG Lab’s cost/benefit analysis indicated that by virtualizing and automating performance, SolidFire can eliminate up to 93% of traditional storage-related problems. These problems might include issues inherent in a traditional architecture that are caused by workload imbalance, monopolization of a fixed set of resources, insufficient resources in a pool, requirements to move VMs, inefficient tiering, and controller bottlenecks. In addition, SolidFire storage platforms were shown to reduce hardware, software and support costs up to 3.8 times compared to traditional disk-based storage architectures.