Second-generation SSD caching solution accelerate data centre and cloud computing applications
PMC’s second-generation SSD caching solution, maxCache 2.0, adds support for write caching to expand the application workloads that can benefit from this technology. The Series 6Q with maxCache 2.0 improves quality of service, offers up to 13 times improvement in I/O operations per second (IOPS) and a 13 times reduction in application latency. The latency reductions delivered with maxCache 2.0 provide a direct end-user benefit for data centres. For example, Shopzilla reports that a five second speedup results in a 10 percent increase in revenue and a 50 percent decrease in hardware, while large financial institutions are making record profits off of a 0.5 second speed advantage. From another perspective, Amazon cites that every 100 milliseconds in latency can result in a one percent drop in sales.
The Series 6Q with maxCache 2.0 also improves IOPS and allows data centres to perform more transactions with a single server and reduce the overall number of servers required. This reduces capital and operational expenses, including power, cooling and maintenance costs.
The Series 6Q will ship standard with PMC’s second-generation, patented supercap backup solution, Zero Maintenance Cache Protection, which eliminates the maintenance and environmental costs of lithium ion battery-based solutions. With the elimination of lithium ion batteries and the reduction in power and cooling possible with maxCache 2.0, the Series 6Q is the industry’s “greenest” SSD caching solution. In addition to the Series 6Q with maxCache 2.0, PMC is releasing the Series 6T RAID controllers with recessed top-mounted connectors that enable maximum installation flexibility in dense form-factor servers found in data centre applications.
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