OCZ released a new whitepaper written by Dr. Allon Cohen from OCZ Technology Group on the topic of empowering enterprise applications with optimized flash hardware and software that explains how well implemented combination of optimal flash caching and accelerated I/O access can deliver a leading-edge implementation.

Focusing on OCZ's Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSDs and OCZ's XL Series of acceleration and virtualization software that allows IT professionals to select optimized "application-specific" caching policies should bring the best of both worlds and provide high "hit ratios," as well as the fastest data access to on-host SSD flash.

Explaining the, so called Catch-22 of optimal flash caching that depends on IOPS and hit ratio ratings. In order to get better hit ratio the software needs to statistically process the data in real-time and select elements that are worth caching which puts a lot of problems where system could spend too much time on deciding which element is worthy of cache and slow down access to SSD flash or even spend too little time and practically makes the cache useless. Enterprise applications depend a lot on optimizations since they dynamically hand large amounts of data and deciding which data is "worthy" to cache is quite a problem.

The whitepaper notes that efficient integration of OCZ's Z-Drive R4 series SSDs and OCZ XL series of acceleration and virtualization software with innovative approach to enterprise caching, called "Direct Pass Caching", should not only bring optimized and application-specific selection but also minimized data access times to SSD flash, thus providing much higher hit ratio and access speed.

OCZ is definitely putting a lot of effort in the enterprise market lately and its focus will definitely pay off. In case you are interested in more details, you can download the whitepaper below.







Source: OCZ.com.