Today SanDisk Corporation announced that it has updated its server-side solid state caching software, FlashSoft version 3.7. The new software updates includes improvements in performance, usability, and compatibility for Windows, VMware, and Linux environments. SanDisk has also announced that it is bundling its FlashSoft software with its hardware, such as its Optimus Ascend SAS SSD and the CloudSpeed Ascend SATA SSD, as well as its Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators (like the SX300 or the PX600).
SanDisk acquired FlashSoft a few years ago. Flashsoft is a software package designed to leverage small amounts of flash to accelerate hard drive based workloads. There is only so much data that is very active at any given time. Rather than place all of that application data on an expensive flash tier, the software sizes flash for the percentage of active data and enables smart software decide when to promote hot data to the flash cache. Many enterprises would rather stretch out the life of existing arrays and server hardware or make smaller new hardware investments, and can leverage FlashSoft to do so relatively economically. FlashSoft estimates enterprises can gain 3-5 times the performance of applications like SQL Server thanks to the huge gains in overall latency and responsiveness of the most in demand data.
FlashSoft 3.7 enhancements and highlights include:
Along with the above update to FlashSoft, SanDisk is also refreshing its portfolio with Cache Device bundles. These bundles combine FlashSoft into SanDisk’s PCIe application accelerator’s and SSDs giving customers a broad range of server-side, solid-state caching options from a single vendor. FlashSoft software will continue to support SSDs from all vendors, so customers don’t have to worry about only reaping the benefits from SanDisk SSDs.
The bundles include:
Availability and pricing
The updated FlashSoft along with the new bundles are available now.
The pricing for each bundle type (software support is priced separately):
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