HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class - Questions & Answers
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Business Value
Enhances application performance with superior storage I/Os and read/write performance for businesses with high transaction rates needing real-time data access.
Many businesses and application such as data mining, business intelligence and financial transactions will benefit significantly from high speed and low latency access to data. Using solid state storage technology on the IO bus ensures high read and write performance and accelerated application performance, this implementation is an IO Accelerator. The application performance enhancement has a positive impact on business results and ability to takes decision quickly, resulting is cost and time savings.
Q2.
What are the benefits of the HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class?
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Solid State Storage Technology can provide customer benefits in several different areas and in different architecture implementations, this technology offers benefits of high performance and reliability with no moving parts, and low power and cooling requirements and improved environmental tolerance. Solid state storage technology utilization has only recently become a popular topic in the market despite the fact that it has been used in some enterprise applications for a number of years, especially where the workloads benefit significantly from very low latency access, and application benefits match the costs associated with the solution Solid state storage technology benefits are best realized with latency sensitive environments for both read and write intensive workloads.
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List some of the use cases for this technology.
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Some of the applications that could see performance improvements from the HP IO Accelerator include:
Databases than need to run in memory for performance reasons
Seismic data processing
Business intelligence and data mining
Real-time financial data processing and verification
Content caching for near static data file/web servers
3D animation and rendering
CAD/CAM
Virtual desktop infrastructure solution
Hypervisor running a large number of virtual machines
