(Editor’s Note: This article refers to a video interview shot in San Jose as part of TMCnet’s “On the Road” video series. To view the entire library of videos from Road Shows and other industry shows, as well as product demos and interviews in our in-house studio, visit TMCnet Videos home page.)
Virident Systems, a relatively new company that builds enterprise-class solutions based on Flash and other storage class memories (SCM), has worked extensively to find ways their technologies can improve modern data-intensive applications.
Officials claim that not only can their technologies help revolutionize the data center and cloud computer - but also solve the problems of performance, reliability and serviceability that typically hamper large-scale deployments of SSDs.
Recently, TMC (News - Alert) CEO Rich Tehrani sat down for an interview with Kumar Ganapathy, CEO of Virident Systems to find out more about the company and their product offering.
“As you know, servers are getting more and more powerful,” Ganapathy said. And while Intel (News - Alert) is making chips, “the core counts are also doubling every year.”
According to Ganapathy, while these tend to use hard drives, “hard drives have never scaled in their performance especially in the last 20 years.”
So what role is Virident Systems playing in changing this for the enterprise?
The company has developed a storage product that Ganapathy displays for viewers during the interview, that is essentially a card which fits into servers and makes it possible to, “deliver the performance of a thousand hard drives in one of these products,” Ganapathy said.
“We’re bringing to market a product that is based on solid data storage technology – which is the one technology that manufacturers have been using over the last 5-10 years in the consumer world – for example Apple (News - Alert) uses flash storage – and taking this technology that’s been in the consumer world, and adapting that for the enterprise world to use in storage.”
To find out more, check out the video in full below:
Stefania Viscusi is an assignment editor for TMCnet, covering voice and Voice over IP technologies. She also oversees production of TMCnet's e-Newsletters in the areas of Internet telephony and speech technology. To read more of Stefania's articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Stefania Viscusi
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