WhipTail Tech Pushes SSD Performance

According to WhipTail Tech CTO James Candelaria, the update to the Racerunner Operating System used in the company’s Virtual Desktop and Data Center XLR8r appliances has been tuned specifically to optimize the nuance of flash memory.

According to Candelaria, more IT organizations are discovering that flash memory is a resource best shared in an appliance across a range of server and storage systems rather than being deployed on a single storage system.

In particular, Candelaria said virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments are an excellent example where high-speed write IOPs are needed to ensure that a large number of workers do not experience application performance degradation when accessing shared server and storage resources.

The new release also includes support for a new data deduplication engine to make the most of shared storage resources, said Candelaria.

Prices for the Virtual Desktop and Data Center XLR8r SSD appliances running the G4 version of the new operating system start at $49,000 for 1.5 TB of storage.