BANGALORE, INDIA: Storage company EMC Corporation introduced VFCache, a server flash caching solution.

With this announcement, the company is extending flash technology to server and evolving the benefits of PCIe flash technology from edge case social media and internet to mainstream mission critical applications such as Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.

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Now databases (CRP, ERM), OLTP, email, web, and reporting - any read-intensive workloads with cacheable working sets - can benefit from the PCIe flash.

Pat Gelsinger, president and chief operating officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products, said: “EMC identified very early on that Flash technology would change the industry forever, and became the first to bring Flash to enterprise storage. With today’s announcement, EMC also becomes the first to implement PCIe Flash in a way that ensures mission critical applications reach new levels of performance, at the right cost, and with the level of protection and intelligence that customers demand.”

Together, VFCache and EMC flash-enabled storage systems improve application performance by leaveraging intelligent software and PCIe flash technology - testing resulted in up-to 3X increased throughput while reducing latency by 60 per cent, claims the company in a release. Customers need not disrupt their existing storage architectures inorder to avail the benfits of this new technology.

Placing flash technology in the server on a PCIe card can accelerate performance up-to another order of magnitude - 4000X faster data access than 15K HDD.

EMC also announced that, next year, it will add deduplication technology to VFCache and additional flash capacity and form factors will also be supported.

Moreover, VFCache will also further integrate with EMC storage management technologies, and additional integration with FAST architecture.

VFCache resides in the server, eliminating the need for hot data to travel through the network to the storage array.