Analysis Services I/O Time
A couple of years ago I was working on a KPI dashboard project where we had to display a bunch of KPIs produced by counting (distinct count) number of customers, accounts, etc. Even with SSAS 2008 we couldn't much to optimize the queries to render the page in a few seconds because we found that 50% of the execution time was spent in the storage engine. We flirted with the idea of using solid state disks (SSD) but back then there were not that popular.
Tags: performance tuning