The addition of SSDs in the IBM storage arrays adds them to the list of storage vendors with SSD options including EMS, NetApp and HDS. Overall the growth of solid-state storage to accelerate and improve enterprise storage and server performance is gaining widespread adoption.
The company combines hardware and software to deliver high-performance server adapter products and application acceleration middleware for faster performance.
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Solarflare provides high performance server adapters and application acceleration middleware while Arista has developed very fast switches such as the 7100 series used at CBOE.
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Another benefit of server-side flash is that it allows system administrators to manage flash on the server side for performance, but also keep network storage (for example, the storage area network) for storage capacity.
EBay, for instance, has reduced the number of server configurations it will deploy down to two. (Before it had 200 to 300 server configurations but 15 configurations accounted for 80 percent of the total population.) EBay now has a High Performance Computing server designed to handle transactions.
They are among the businesses that have deployed Solarflare server adapters to improve performance.
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The enhanced 32-bit execution capability will benefit existing 32-bit cloud server applications, while 64-bit execution extends the applicability of ARM technology-based solutions to enable new opportunities in networking, server and high-performance computing.
Connected Data is led by serial entrepreneur and storage industry veteran Geoff Barrall and an experienced team of professionals previously responsible for the high-performance BlueArc Silicon Server and the popular Drobo storage array.
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PernixData, which just launched, focuses on software to virtualize server-side flash to increase performance.
This not only improves application performance but also reduces server CPU utilization by as much as 30 percent, which potentially reduces the number of servers needed.
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It delivers up to three times more performance per watt than the Fermi streaming multiprocessor, making it possible to build a supercomputer that delivers one petaflop of computing performance in just 10 server racks.
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Businesses with server farms or massive data centers could eliminate performance bottlenecks and ensure long-term upgradability while saving significant operational costs in space and energy.
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Micron continues its memory market leadership with modules that provide 50 percent higher memory capacity and a performance increase of 33 percent for server applications.
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"The new Asustor AS 3 Series NAS devices with the Intel Atom CE5300 series provide the performance needed for home media file server functionality, " said Asustor president, Shawn Shu.
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The low-profile, half-length WarpDrive card plugs into a standard 8 lane PCIe Gen 2.0 server slot and is designed to deliver high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden independent of main memory size.
Announcing availability concurrently with the introduction of the 2009 Niveus media server line, boasting impressive enhancements in processing and performance, Niveus now doubles the capabilities of the Niveus Entertainment System.
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Also, the LSI WarpDrive card's very low overhead consumption of server processor and DRAM memory resources enables even higher performance by leaving these resources available for useful application processing and data caching.
Retrieving and storing data from a hard-disk drive takes one million times longer than accessing it from server memory, a difference that can severely degrade application performance.
Improves Apple File Service performance, especially when using a home directory hosted on an AFP server.
Leading OEMs are now offering cloud, enterprise and HPC customers a full suite of solutions based on the industry's most comprehensive server processor portfolio, the new AMD Opteron family of processors which deliver an inspired balance of performance, scalability and efficiency.
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He also points out that AMD knows the server market well, and in theory could partner with ARM to drive that architecture into high-performance applications.
Complementing a central HR system implementation, products like SharePoint server can act a central hub for collaboration and information management, while Yammer can facilitate social networking and performance management, and Lync can enable VoIP, instant messaging, teleconferencing, and more.
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