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Not news to us, but this will set an excellent precedent towards showing business's that SSD's are truely ready for enterprise work.
Computerworld - GRAPEVINE, Texas -- When it came to managing most of AOL's 6 petabytes of data, a Fibre Channel SAN sufficed. But for its most critical relational database, AOL found that the SAN was too constrained and caused its IT shop to miss business unit service levels more than 50% of the time. After investigating what may have been causing I/O bottlenecks, AOL found the problem was backend storage. To fix the problem, AOL decided to build a 50TB storage area network (SAN) from solid state technology. The upgrade worked, increasing throughput to the SQL database by four times over the Fibre Channel SAN, while still providing storage admins the flexibility to migrate data between storage systems because the NAND flash memory sat behind an existing virtualization appliance, which aggregates all of the backend storage and serves it up as from a single pool. |
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Not news to us, but this will set an excellent precedent towards showing business's that SSD's are truely ready for enterprise work.