Life in the data center has become challenging. Many managers are tasked with the impossible – satisfying IT system performance demands without making significant new IT capital investments or bearing the cost burden of increasing floor space.
By replacing many high RPM HDDs with a few Pliant Lightning EFDs, data centers can realize significant cost savings and improved performance flexibility, while substantially reducingspace andenergy requirements. By dramatically decreasing direct and indirect energy consumption and minimizing the physical storage space,Pliant Lightning EFDsare exceedingthe expectations of stringent global IT green initiatives.
Reduced energy consumption has become an important criteria for new storage devices. The Pliant Lightning solid state based EFD technology has a green advantage compared with HDDs—EFDs replace many high-RPM disk drives, which will save on energy and space.
Because fewer EFDs can do the job of hundreds of hard disk drives, Pliant Lightning EFDs are a more cost effective solution in high performance computing environments. Significant Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) savings are also achieved by reducing power and cooling, processing time, space requirements and by simplifying storage system management.
I/O intensive enterprise applications require predictable and sustainable IOPS and bandwidth levels. Pliant Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs) perform consistently across the range of 100% reads to a 50/50 read/write ratio. While traditional SSDs and HDDs can only perform one read or write at a time, the Pliant EFD can read and write simultaneously, enabling substantially better and predictable performance for demanding enterprise applications.
Simplifying the infrastructure and reducing the number of devices improves the overall reliability of IT operations. Since EFDs do not have the mechanical wear and tear associated with traditional spinning HDDs, they are more reliable and deliver significantly lower failure rates than disk drives.
