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Virident was founded in 2006 by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Sun, Cisco, SGI, Google and Intel, and is well−funded to address the challenges of scale, power, cost, and performance in the internet data center. Virident is the inventor of the GreenCloud Architecture and the GreenCloud Server Family.
The GreenCloud Server Family is based on the ‘GreenCloud Architecture’ which transforms an industry standard server into a data-centric ‘in-memory’ server platform. In-memory computing delivers orders of magnitude improvement in application performance, the opportunity for server consolidation, lower TCO, and industry-leading energy efficiency. By allowing applications to directly interact with large volumes of data hosted in memory, the GreenCloud Architecture ensures optimal utilization of all server elements: compute, memory, and I/O. It is a better building block for ‘scale-out’ infrastructures for rapidly growing data centers.
Virident GreenCloud Servers are designed to lead a new wave of server and architectural innovations in Internet and cloud computing in data centers. By combining innovative hardware with co-optimized software stacks, GreenCloud Servers deliver significantly higher performance for data-centric applications such as databases, caching, search, and content delivery. These performance improvements result in overall data center power and cost efficiencies, lower TCO, and enable introduction of new services. GreenCloud Servers are the ideal building block for scale-out architectures, enabling Internet businesses to do more with less.
The GreenCloud Server for MySQL delivers 50 – 70x performance improvement over disk array-based industry standard servers and 5 – 7x versus high-performance PCIe SSDs on Web 2.0 workloads. The Virident GreenCloud Server for Memcached delivers a new standard of high-performance and cache size scaling for the popular distributed caching application. These servers can deliver 250K object gets per second and support caches with up to 3 billion objects, increasing performance by up to 4x and the available cache memory by up to 8x versus industry standard servers.
The GreenCloud Architecture is the foundation for future innovation in virtualization, memory-based architectures, and energy proportional computing in the cloud. This sets the stage for a new era of in-memory computing in the data center – where memory becomes the ‘new disk’ in the computing hierarchy, unleashing tremendous increases in bandwidth, performance and scalability, and streamlining software applications and data storage.
GreenCloud Servers provide a better building block for scale-out datacenters today. By optimizing server efficiency for data-centric applications, GreenCloud enables SmartScaling – providing the operational flexibility to meet service needs with fewer servers, meet growth requirements in the current data center footprint, and gain user insight through richer analysis to enhance a business model.