HP’s server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck

Hewlett-Packard says it will address the I/O bottleneck created by internal and external storage in its next generation of ProLiant servers, boosting performance by up to 50 percent for popular applications such as OLTP (online transaction processing) and streaming video.

HP said in two separate blog posts that its upcoming ProLiant Gen8 server line will offer SSDs (solid-state drives) in combination with a data caching algorithm that it calls Dynamic Workload Acceleration . Read more...