Adaptec has announced its MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution has been implemented by A.T. WORKS, Japan’s Internet services provider and manager of the country’s largest server farm.
Ideal for data centers running applications with high “read” operations such as Web serving, file serving and databases, the A.T. WORKS solution uses customized Intel SSDs used as cache with Adaptec MaxIQ SSD Caching Software plus Adaptec RAID 2405 and Adaptec RAID 5405 Unified Serial controllers to create high-performance hybrid arrays made of SSDs and HDDs. The implementation of the solution at A.T. Works doubled the performance of SATA HDD RAID 1 configurations with static Web pages and significantly outperformed SAS HDD-only configurations with dynamic Web pages.
Takuji Ikeda, A. T. WORKS’ Engineering Division said, “With Adaptec MaxIQ, we’ve been able to create a hybrid solution of SSDs and HDDs to meet growing customer demands for large capacity, high-performance storage solutions at an affordable price.”
