March Solid State Drive Round-up

This year has been big for solid state drives. In just the past month alone, 3PAR, Riverbed and LSI/Seagate have introduced solid state drives into existing product lines. According to this Network World story, Riverbed became the first WAN optimization appliance provider to integrate SSDs by providing a Fault Tolerent System (FTS) in its Steelhead 7050 product line.

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"The newest 3PAR InServ software option, coupled with enterprise class SSDs from STEC, lets 3PAR customers take advantage of the SSD speed by adding a relatively small amount of SSD to an existing array. 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software is a new product option that requires 3PAR System Reporter software, Version 2.7 or above. The algorithms intelligently monitor sub-volume-level performance in context with configurable policies to distribute storage workload across tiers and adapt to changing application demands."

Read the Full Story at Network World