Virident's tachyOn Software Better Tackles Data-Intensive Apps

Virident Systems has introduced the tachIOn Solid State Disk, a new server-side storage platform that enables customers to tackle data intensive applications with lower cost, higher and predictable performance, and enterprise class reliability. Data intensive applications are a rapidly growing class of applications, tracking the explosive growth of rich media, smart-grid, web 2.0, data analytics, and social media.

 

"tachIOn is faster, more reliable, and offers better economics than competition. We are excited to see an excellent level of market reception to our vision and an excellent level of customer acceptance of our products. Even at full capacity, tachIOn delivers high predictable performance," Kumar Ganapathy, CEO of Virident Systems said.

 

tachIOn eclipses the competition as it is designed to last for years rather than months, and delivers a sustained performance level that is 2-10x higher, even for random I/O. It comes with end-to-end error correction, advanced capacity management, and global wear-leveling to assure durability and consistent performance.

 

"tachIOn SSD scales better than the other PCIe SSD cards we've tested and deployed. We're heavy users and our service needs to be available to our customers 24x7, so performance and reliability are very important to us -- and the Virident tachIOn PCIe SLC SSD delivers," said Will Lowe, Director Operations, iParadigms.

 

"With the advent of PCIe based SSDs, TCS believes that SSDs have come of age for IO acceleration in enterprise systems. Their ability to reduce latency of access by an order of magnitude translates into substantial performance improvements," Rajesh K Mansharamani, VP performance engineering, Tata Consultancy (News - Alert) Services (TCS) said.

 

tachIOn's compact half-size/half-length profile maximizes density and allows it to fit in 1U or 2U servers, and a modular design adds flexibility, lowers costs, and eases future field-upgrades. tachIOn is available in 200, 300, or 400 Gbytes of usable capacity per card to fit a range of needs.

 

"Virident Systems is aggressively addressing the growing I/O performance gap in enterprise computing with a high-performance PCIe solid-state storage solution that delivers 2x-4x sustained and predictable IOPS over other PCIe offerings," Alan Niebel, CEO, Web-Feet Research said. "The tachIOn product easily handles multiple and varied workloads and also addresses the enterprise reliability requirements and the need for easy to use Global Wear leveling software that extends product lifetime creating a total systems solution."

 

The widening speed gap between servers and storage hinders application scalability and lowers data center efficiency, slowing down key initiatives such as dynamic cloud computing deployments. This has led to a growing requirement for "Tier-0" storage solutions: fast storage that occupies the space between servers and traditional hard-drive storage solutions, on the server-side and/or the storage-side.

 

Dubbed the Virident GreenCloud Storage Software, this capability will be released in phases to enable large-scale deployment of SSDs, which until now has been hampered by capacity fragmentation and inconsistent availability of SSD resources to applications that need them.

 

Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Flash and other storage-class memories (SCM). In 2009, the company in collaboration with Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) released the GreenCloud Server for MySQL - a complete hardware and software solution based upon the MySQL Community Server, and includes Virident-optimized versions of the MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines providing compatibility for existing data sets.