LSI MegaRAID^® CacheCade^™ Software

Introducing the next generation in LSI CacheCade technology.

 

Building on the previous generation of LSI® MegaRAID® CacheCade™ Software technology, LSI is setting the industry standard in high-performance application acceleration with CacheCade Pro 2.0 read and write caching software.

A Dedicated Pool of High-Performance Cache

CacheCade Pro 2.0 software offers a new option to solving your storage system challenges, allowing solid state drives (SSDs) to act as a dedicated pool of high-performance cache between the hard disk drive (HDD) and select 6Gb/s MegaRAID controller cards. By using SSDs as a dedicated pool of cache to deliver hot data, this software solution lowers your total cost of ownership (TCO) by helping to avoid the cost of IT cycles for application tuning or sourcing more CPU, memory or enterprise HDDs.

This software intelligently places highly-accessed data or “hot data” in high-performance SSDs, minimising HDD-only writes/reads, leading to reduced HDD latencies.  Therefore, overall storage system reliability is significantly improved, with application performance being boosted by as much as 1251% compared to standard storage systems without CacheCade Pro 2.0 software. 

Dynamic Adaptation

• CacheCade Pro 2.0 software learns what data is important to end users’ reads and writes using the fastest storage technology available, helping to make applications run faster and end-users more productive
• If data access patterns change, or if different applications are invoked, CacheCade Pro 2.0 software dynamically changes the “hot data” that is written to or read from the SSDs

Outstanding Performance by Using SSDs for “Hot” Data in Various Applications

• More transactions per second (TPS)
• Read and Write activity intelligently copied to redundant SSD cache pool
• Active data sets offloaded to low latency SSDs

Reduced Power and Footprint Requirements in Data Centres

• Lower Infrastructure costs
• Lower IT costs
• Lower Application costs

Dramatic improvement in application performance, including

• Microsoft Exchange servers
• Transactional database servers (Oracle, MySQL, SQL and others)
• Transactional web servers
• Microsoft server
• Hypervisors

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