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VIRTUALISATION IBM revs up SSD performance for enterprise – yay?
VIRTUALISATION IBM revs up SSD performance for enterprise – yay? | IBM revs up SSD performance for enterprise – yay? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 25 May 2009 | |
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At face value, it’s a compelling argument: spend some money now to save a lot more now and into the future – (but please, please spend some money now!) It also sounds like the pitch you get from retailers: spend now… and save! The entire notion of not spending to save money doesn’t seem to factor into the equation – but then companies are in business to sell things, not to have things sitting in storage and expensive R&D developments going to waste. To benefit from IBM’s SSD speed-up, you’ll need to be an enterprise that is already using IBM technology – or you’ll need to upgrade/move over to IBM’s offerings. Once you have all of IBM’s new stuff in place, IBM says that SSD performance can be improved by “up to 800%”, physical storage footprint needs can be reduced by “approximately 80%” and energy consumption can be reduced by “up to 90%”, too. IBM also reminds us in its press release that its SSD technology is “similar to that used in MP3 players, but on a more advanced and larger scale”, noting that SSD’s can “conduct up to 20,000 transfers per second” compared with a hard drive which can perform “approximately 200 data transfers per second”. Continued on page 2, please read on! |
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