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 serverperformance is gaining widespread adoption.
The company combines hardware and software to deliver high-performance server adapter products and application acceleration middleware for faster performance.
Solarflare provides high performanceserver adapters and application acceleration middleware while Arista has developed very fast switches such as the 7100 series used at CBOE.