In this episode Rick Vanover (Twitter @RickVanover) brings back the popular "Solid State of the Union" discussion. Solid State of the Union 1, 2 and 3 were quite a while ago, so the time is right! Rick hosts Doug Rollins from Micron Storage. In this episode, Rick and Doug talk at length about some of the current solid state drive tendencies and how it can provide practical performance behaviors in the modern data center today. Rick and Doug also speak briefly about the Steady State performance management best practice.