SanDisk has announced immediate availability of its FlashSoft server-side, solid state caching software for Windows, Linux and VMware environments. SanDisk will now also bundle its FlashSoft caching software with the company’s enterprise flash hardware solutions, including the Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators, the Optimus Ascend SAS solid-state drive (SSD), and the CloudSpeed AscendSATA SSD.
A recent Gartner report indicates that "input/output (I/O) optimization software alleviates the "I/O blender" problem that often plagues dense virtual machine environments and notes that these solutions can be an inexpensive and non-disruptive way to boost application performance."
According to SanDisk FlashSoft software does that and reduces I/O latency in VMware vSphere, Windows Server and Linux environments through the use of server-side, flash-based storage caching, which helps increase application performance in both virtualized and non-virtualized computing environments.
By utilizing server-attached flash storage as an intermediate cache for an application’s most frequently accessed data, or "hot data," FlashSoft software enables that data to be read and written more efficiently. The software assigns hot data to the solid-state cache, increasing performance while reducing storage area network (SAN) overhead. This prolongs the useful life of current server and storage systems and delivers greater computing power, which increases customers’ return on investment (ROI), while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for their data center.
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