IPFS Picks Virident's FlashMAX II PCIe Device

IPFS, a financing company in the United States and Puerto Rico, has recently switched to Virident's (News - Alert) FlashMAX II SSD to enhance its employee productivity, as well as the performance of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Officials at IPFS said that the company was expanding very fast and its previous storage solution could not keep up with the flash storage needs. After checking on various other solutions in the market, IPFS finalized on Virident’s FlashMAX II, which is a Storage Class Memory (SCM) solution that offers enterprises unconditional performance combined with the industry’s highest storage capacity in the smallest footprint.

IPFS is currently using two 550GB Virident FlashMAX II devices as data stores. This deployment manages all the troubled points that were hampering the IPFS’s VDI performance.

"We were looking for a way to deploy desktops quickly and provide users a local computer experience. We needed the ability to update desktops and apps daily without interruption to the user," said Jason Walker, senior engineer at IPFS. "The addition of Virident FlashMAX II storage devices allows us to achieve a desktop experience far superior to even a local desktop environment. The density of desktops was more than five times anything else I tested. FlashMAX II is seamless for the users, IT administrators and staff. A real win for everyone involved."

The Virident FlashMAX II device can easily handle major block outs caused by multiple high-intensity CPU activities, such as boot storms and recompose. IT administrators can easily update the existing desktops that are non-intrusive and also reduce the number of virtualization hosts needed while increasing the capacity of VDIs and users.

"The business benefits of VDI are extremely compelling, but VDI consistently runs into performance bottlenecks," said Ken Grohe, vice president of worldwide customer operations at Virident. "FlashMAX II is able to provide the performance needed to meet peak I/O demands without the over-provisioning required by traditional storage.”

Grohe said that this improved performance significantly enhances the user experience while providing the customized look and feel of a physical desktop.