Virident, Inc., a performance leader in flash-based Storage Class Memory (SCM) solutions, today announced the results of an ESG Lab report*, validating the sustained performance and scalability of the FlashMAX® SCM solution. The results of ESG’s testing demonstrated that Virident’s FlashMax PCIe SCM solution delivers predictably fast, real-world application performance over the life of the device. In addition, testing concluded the product is well suited for the growing number of performance-sensitive OLTP, OLAP, DSS, HPC, and VDI enterprise workloads that are migrating from traditional disk drives to high-speed flash memory.
MILPITAS, Calif., and Irving, Texas - February 8th, 2012—Virident, Inc., a performance leader in flash-based Storage Class Memory (SCM) solutions, and NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today announced they have achieved unrivaled performance for Oracle applications. The integrated solution from Virident and NEC delivers 1.2 Million random input/output operations per second (IOPS) and a bandwidth of 9.4 GB/s in real-world Oracle 8k block-size workloads with just eight 1.4TB FlashMAX™ SCM devices deployed on a single Intel® Xeon® family based 80-core NEC Express5800/A1080a ”GX” server.
(TechCrunch) So why the interest in Virident? For starters, the startup’s management team counts former Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel employees among its ranks. So it has some talent. Second, the (enterprise) storage space is hot. And Virident has built flash solutions that are compatible with any servers and allow enterprises to enhance not only the speed of their applications but to ensure reliable performance under heavy workloads, specifically for data-intensive workloads, like databases, business analytics, simulation, visualization and high-performance computing...Read More
(VentureBeat) Virident is announcing today that is has raised $21 million to launch its next-generation flash memory for enterprises. The funding is a rare one for a chip maker, but Virident is playing in one of the hottest parts of the market, where data centers use more flash memory in their servers in order to reduce power consumption and improve their ability to process an enormous amount of data quickly...Read More
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Virident FlashMAX PCIe Storage Class Memory Datasheet Virident incorporates specialized software and hardware that combine to implement Storage Class Memory (SCM) within the server. Virident's SCM architecture has been designed to tightly integrate different kinds of flash media, hardware and software to deliver memory-class performance with storage-class capacity and persistence...read more. |
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Virident Storage Class Memory Overview Delivering application performance in a cost effective manner is a challenge for today's enterprise IT organizations. Most applications suffer from having to wait longer for data from the legacy storage infrastructure, even as the computing horsepower increases over time with the advent of faster processors and more cores in today's datacenter...read more. |