HP and Fusion-io develop flash memory caches for servers | | 2008-06-19 | | HP and Fusion-io have announced plans to develop solid-state memory for HP’s server range.
The joint venture will adapt Fusion-io’s ioDrive NAND product to HP server PCI Express slots to add as much as 640GB of flash storage capacity on a single card, radically increasing I/O rates. HP c-Class blade servers would have an ioDrive mounted on their mother board to cache I/O to storage resources. The project aims to achieve a 1.28TB capacity by 2009.
Fusion-io’s ioMemory architecture reduces the server/storage performance gap, enabling read-intensive I/O applications to run much faster while also increasing performance of high-transaction, write-intensive I/O applications.
Fusion-io claims, this will virtually eliminate latency and bottlenecks at the application level at a lower overall cost, while consuming dramatically less power than traditional (ie short-stroking Fibre Channel drives) solutions.
The flash-based storage repository that holds "active" data requiring constant access and changes can boost performance by as much as 40% for some applications.
Details of pricing and shipping availability have yet to be released.
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