Last week saw a pair of announcements by major vendors that reflect the degree to which solid state disk or flash caching technologies are moving into the mainstream: 1) IBM announced several key enhancements to its latest XIV Gen3 solutions, including a solid state drive caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times; and 2) EMC announced VFCache, a new server flash caching solution that increases throughput by 3X while reducing latency by 60 percent, thus enhancing the performance of read-intensive workloads with cacheable working sets.
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Cache as Cache Can: New SSD Options Boost Performance
Posted by: Charles King February 14, 2012 05:00 AMLast week saw a pair of announcements by major vendors that reflect the degree to which solid state disk or flash caching technologies are moving into the mainstream: 1) IBM announced several key enhancements to its latest XIV Gen3 solutions, including a solid state drive caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times; and 2) EMC announced VFCache, a new server flash caching solution that increases throughput by 3X while reducing latency by 60 percent, thus enhancing the performance of read-intensive workloads with cacheable working sets.