Virident GreenGateway for data centers

MILPITAS, USA: Virident Systems has developed the first data-centric technology platform to deliver a new class of green memory, servers and applications for the data center. Virident's high-performance, low-power platform solution enables Internet data centers to cost-effectively keep pace with the rising performance and energy demands of Internet-scale.

GreenGateway, conceived and developed by Virident, turns today's compute-centric servers into large memory data-centric servers. This new class of servers offers random access, low-power, non-volatile, high-performance flash memory to applications such as Internet search, social networking, data analytics and content distribution.

The Virident GreenGateway, combined with a new memory solution, Spansion EcoRAM, provides DRAM-class read performance with larger memories, improving server efficiency and application throughput immediately. Ultimately, this sets the stage for several revolutionary changes in Internet server design and power efficiency to be announced in the future by Virident.

According to the Gartner Group, energy costs could soon consume as much as half of an organization's IT budget. Growth in systems is being driven by the explosion of data on the Internet. The size of data stores is estimated to be quadrupling every 18 months on major Internet sites, and the number of queries per terabyte is doubling every 18 months. Unfortunately, according to McKinsey & Company, most of these servers in the data center remain at very low levels of CPU utilization -- about 20 percent.

In response, companies are forced to build and grow data centers faster than ever before, driving up infrastructure costs, and resulting in an energy crisis in the data center.