Adaptec launches Max IQ SSD Cache performance solution

September: Adaptec, Inc. announced the first solution for building and managing High-Performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs) - storage arrays that use both solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). These solutions delivering up to five times the I/O performance, up to 50 percent savings in capital and operating expenses, and a dramatic reduction in power consumption over HDD-only arrays. Adaptec's new MaxIQâ„¢ SSD Cache Performance Solution integrates a tuned 32GB Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA SSD, used as high-performance cache, with Adaptec's MaxIQ SSD caching software to provide I/O intensive data center and cloud computing customers with cost-effective scalability without disrupting existing operations.

The Adaptec MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution represents the next phase in Adaptec's Data Conditioning Platform strategy, to deliver business value to data center managers by intelligently routing, optimizing and protecting data as it moves through the I/O path. The strategic decision to partner with Intel underscores Adaptec's commitment to developing easy-to-integrate, standards-based I/O solutions to meet large-scale computing challenges in demanding IT environments.

"By incorporating Intel's SSDs into our MaxIQ solution, we're able to offer data center managers, particularly those running massive on-demand cloud computing data centers, a non-disruptive, scalable approach to managing storage with maximum application performance and reduced capital and operating costs," said S. "Sundi" Sundaresh, Adaptec president and CEO. "Adaptec MaxIQ underscores the potential that we see for significant future management and conditioning of data through the I/O path, which is central to our new Data Conditioning Platform strategy."