Suppose you could consistently get data ten times faster from your networked storage. How would that change things? Depending on how your data is used it could change a lot. Faster insight. Greater productivity. More revenue.
Flash memory technology is making this possible. Solid state drives (SSD's) that use flash memory have response times measured in the hundreds of microseconds, which is at least 10 times quicker than the fastest hard disk drives.
Another way to achieve this level of performance is with a flash-based, intelligent read cache installed in the storage controller. NetApp will be introducing a flash version of our Performance Acceleration Module next year.
In addition to fast response times, SSD's and read caching also deliver high rates of I/O throughput for workloads that are random read intensive. This can reduce or eliminate large numbers of fast-spinning disk drives that may otherwise be needed to achieve your requirement for random I/O throughput. Fewer high-RPM disk drives translate into ongoing savings of rack space, electricity, and cooling costs.
Our storage systems will support both SSD's and intelligent read caches that use flash memory. We will make a series of flash product announcements in 2009. You can get a preview of our plans in the white paper titled Flash Memory Technology in Enterprise Storage: Flexible Choices to Optimize Performance.
Also see NetApp founder Dave Hitz' blog Disk is the New Tape - Flash is the New Disk for some insightful observations on this topic.
- Mark Woods
Our storage systems will support both SSD's and intelligent read caches that use flash memory.
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