Server Side Is Where It’s At – Leveraging Server Resources For Performance

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

If you want performance, especially in IO, you have to bring it to where the compute is happening. We’ve recently seen Datrium launch a smart “split” array solution in which the speedy (and compute intensive) bits of the logical array are hosted server-side, with persisted data served from a shared simplified controller and (almost-JBOD) disk shelf. Now Infinio has announced their new caching solution version 3.0 this week, adding tiered cache support for server-side SSD’s and other flash to their historically memory focused IO acceleration.

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