Adaptec Solution demonstrates Dramatic I/O Acceleration

Adaptec has revealed its MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution, integrating an advanced solid-state storage control technology developed by Microsoft Corp. Using a simulation of a dynamic brokerage application environment, Adaptec consistently demonstrated a 3.2 times increase in system I/O (input/output) performance over the best results of a similar system without SSD caching, savings in capital and operating costs of up to 70 per cent.

“These benchmark tests provide data center managers working with high-traffic transactional workloads with quantifiable evidence that storage controllers utilizing SSD caching in SSD/HDD High-Performance Hybrid Arrays can dramatically increase system performance,” said Jon Flower, Vice-President, Advanced Technology, Adaptec. “Accelerating throughput, particularly during peak transactional periods, along with reducing capital and operating costs, minimizing system footprint, and consuming less energy are critical issues for data center managers today. ”

This application is a database application benchmark which models a brokerage firm with customers who generate transactions related to trades, account inquiries, and market research. The brokerage firm, in turn, interacts with financial markets to execute orders on behalf of the customers and updates relevant account information, simulating a 50,000 user environment. The solution creates High-Performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs) by pairing tuned 32GB Intel X25-E Extreme Solid-State Drives, used as high-performance cache.