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Sun’s solid state drive (SSD) Flash technologies hit the accelerator on application performance.
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Hello Inner Circle readers,
The industry has witnessed the evolution of Flash technology from consumer products like the Apple iPod to the enterprise datacenter, driven primarily by decreasing costs for Flash technology and the promise of better application performance in a lower power envelope.
With this in mind, Sun introduced the availability of robust solid state drive (SSD) Flash technology in its x64, chip multi-threaded (CMT) rack and blade systems. We consider ourselves the first major systems vendor to integrate flash technology across our entire systems portfolio. The technology has been designed for overall application acceleration.
Why Solid State Disks? Today's applications demand faster processors and faster access to ever-increasing amounts of data. Customers are spending large sums to buy multiple disk drives to spread the workload and get faster performance. Sun is breaking down the barriers traditional state-of-the-art storage systems with truly open architectures — giving companies the ability to select the right hardware and software components to meet business needs. Unlike traditional storage deployments, Sun’s Open Storage environments let enterprises freely mix, match and maximize computing and storage components including hard disk drives and new Flash devices within a single environment to support user and application demands and adapt as business needs change.
With Sun’s SSD integration, customers are able to put in a few of these SSD drives and run much faster without changing the applications.
Our unique systems design approach to SSD integration across software, systems and storage leverages enterprise-class components and redefines the storage hierarchy. We are proud to say that this holistic systems approach helps customers achieve up to 65x faster response times, up to eight times better throughput, and up to 38% less power consumption than servers with traditional spinning hard disk drives.
We believe that devices based on Flash technology are poised to help increase application performance and response time dramatically, while utilizing less datacenter floor space and energy at a fraction of the cost of hard disk drive storage. The integration of solid state disk innovation and servers is a natural fit and promises compelling price/performance points for customers.
As John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun’s Systems Group said, "Sun is leading the charge with the addition of Flash technology to our server platforms that blow the doors off with huge performance increases, greater cost efficiencies and savings in power consumption."
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Best Regards,
Gan Boon San
President, Asia South
Sun Microsystems
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