March 23, 2009 - Compellent
today
announced
it would demonstrate its tiered SSD technology at a user event in May 2009.
The physical layer is based on STEC's ZeusIOPS SSDs. The soft part - something which Compellent calls - policy driven Data Progression apparently " minimizes the number of SSDs required while providing the highest levels of performance for mission-critical applications."
Editor's comments:- Compellent has been slowly drip feeding press releases and blogs about its SSD plans since last October. Unlike pure rackmount SSDs which aim at ultimate performance apps - Compellent's solution looks like it's pitched at a less ambitious (but maybe larger market) of users who would be happy with the kind of performance tweak which comes from replacing 2 hard disk slots with 2 flash SSDs.
The physical layer is based on STEC's ZeusIOPS SSDs. The soft part - something which Compellent calls - policy driven Data Progression apparently " minimizes the number of SSDs required while providing the highest levels of performance for mission-critical applications."
Editor's comments:- Compellent has been slowly drip feeding press releases and blogs about its SSD plans since last October. Unlike pure rackmount SSDs which aim at ultimate performance apps - Compellent's solution looks like it's pitched at a less ambitious (but maybe larger market) of users who would be happy with the kind of performance tweak which comes from replacing 2 hard disk slots with 2 flash SSDs.