LSI® NytroTM application acceleration solutions are designed to be faster because they’re smarter. Through the intelligent use of solid-state storage technology, LSI enterprise storage solutions deliver high performance while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO). Looking for faster, smarter, and easier ways to break through I/O bottlenecks? Our comprehensive portfolio of application acceleration solutions are fast, smart, and easy to use. Fast - The Nytro XD application acceleration storage solution accelerates SAN-based storage and DAS by storing “hot spots” on flash using the Nytro WarpDrive card
- The Nytro WarpDrive application acceleration card delivers low latency enterprise-quality flash storage
- The Nytro MegaRAID card accelerates DAS with incredibly fast response times
Smart - The Nytro XD solution includes host-based software that caches frequently accessed data onto flash
- The Nytro WarpDrive card incorporates LSI SandForce specialized flash processors to provide enterprise performance and reliability on a PCI Express 3.0 card
- The Nytro MegaRAID card raises the bar on RAID card functionality by including intelligent caching with onboard flash
Easy - Nytro cards and solutions require no application modification or tuning
- The Nytro PredictorTM software tool allows you to evaluate the potential performance improvements of using Nytro caching in your environment
LSI Corporation makes no representations, warranties or guarantees regarding the compatibility or performance of, or results generated by, specific hardware or software products. The information herein and the Nytro Predictor software is provided “AS IS” without warranty of any kind express or implied for use at your sole risk. Further, use of the Nytro Predictor software is strictly subject to an end user license agreement which accompanies the software. Without limiting the forgoing, the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are expressly disclaimed. This document is not warranted to be error-free. LSI Corporation has no responsibility to update the information herein and reserves the right to make changes to this document and to any of its products and services at any time without notice. LSI Corporation does not assume any responsibility or liability arising out of any reliance on or use of this information.
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LSI application acceleration solutions are faster because they’re smarter. Through the intelligent use of solid-state storage technology, LSI enterprise storage solutions deliver the industry’s highest performance while lowering total cost of ownership. Looking for fast, smart, and easy ways to break through I/O bottlenecks? Our comprehensive portfolio of application acceleration offerings help achieve: - Faster database transactions with lower storage costs
- Up to 12x application performance using LSI storage caching and flash technologies
- Optimum data I/O rates for dense, high performance SSD arrays that unleash the potential of flash-based storage
Enterprise Flash for Database Users
LSI flash storage solutions accelerate database transactions – boosting application I/O performance. Plus, our caching software allows you to use both solid-state drives (SSDs) and HDDs, which lowers storage costs while increasing performance. Enterprise Flash: the Business Case
LSI application acceleration solutions use storage caching and solid-state storage technologies to provide up to a 12x application performance increase, while dramatically improving TCO. All major server and storage OEMs rely on LSI technologies. Enterprise Flash for Virtual Servers
In VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V virtualized environments, applications need to share CPU and system memory resources. LSI solutions use flash and data caching technology to accelerate storage transactions while lowering costs – without consuming valuable chunks of critical system memory and CPU cycles. Solutions for the Data Center
Successful data center professionals use the right technologies to leverage their hardware investments; minimize rack space, power, and cooling costs; and support business objectives and service-level agreements (SLAs). These technologies include LSI storage products, because our proven technologies make storage systems run faster, take less space, consume less power, and require less cooling. Solutions for Server Storage
Combining LSI MegaRAID controller cards with our MegaRAID CacheCade and Fast Path software is a great way to optimize your IT infrastructure and achieve vast improvements in overall system performance. CacheCade software enables you to take full advantage of the micro-second speeds of SSDs and Fast Path software optimizes data I/O rates for dense, high performance SSD arrays. Solutions for Digital Content
Forward-thinking creative studios are using the LSI WarpDrive™ SLP-300 card to handle video rendering, editing, animation, and special effects generation delivering results faster than ever before. Are You a System Builder or System Integrator?
Armed with our products and solutions – the industry’s most complete line of storage technologies, including host bus adapters, MegaRAID and 3ware® RAID controllers, application acceleration solutions and a SAS Switch – and backed by our support and resources, you'll be able to solve your customers' toughest business challenges and set yourself apart from the competition.
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About The Device (1)
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LSI Nytro MegaRAID Cards Offer Game-changing Technology
LSI offers game changing technology with an advanced
architecture for servers that are shifting away from using discrete
components from multiple vendors to tightly optimized and
integrated intelligent solutions.
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Best Practice Guide (1)
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Best Practices for Optimizing Oracle Database Performance
Best Practices for Optimizing Oracle® Database Performance with LSI WarpDrive Acceleration Card
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Case Study (5)
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Ustream Drives Social Broadcasting Servers to the Limit with LSI® 1.6TB Nytro™ WarpDrive® BLP4-1600 Card
Learn how Ustream integrated the Nytro WarpDrive BLP4-1600 card into their front end Video on Demand (VoD) systems to deliver 500,000 IOPS in a single server. Also, post the hyperlink title “Ustream Drives Social Broadcasting Servers to the Limit with LSI® 1.6TB Nytro™ WarpDrive® BLP4-1600 Card”
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Delivering on the Promise of VDI
Tangent delivers faster simpler and more flexible VDI
appliance using the LSI® Nytro™ MegaRAID® Card
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LSI® Nytro™ XD Caching Solution Evaluation from Demartek
The LSI Nytro XD solution performed in an outstanding manner, increasing database application performance by at least 500% and as much as 800%, depending on the specific workload.
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Demartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI MegaRAID FastPath Performance
Evaluation report prepared under contract with LSI Corporation
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Nation Publishing Co. Limited Integrates a Cost-Effective, High-Performing Data Center Solution - LSI and Area Data Systems.
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Solution Brief (6)
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NetApp and LSI: Transforming Innovative Application Acceleration
Learn how NetApp and LSI have brought the performance benefits of intelligent server caching software and server-based PCIe flash together with NetApp Flash Accel and the LSI Nytro WarpDrive card.
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Accelerate VDI Performance with the LSI Nytro MegaRAID Card
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) provides IT management
with application management, virus control, and other security
measures. Supporting large numbers of desktop sessions
without increasing response times to users is a challenge. The
LSI Nytro MegaRAID Acceleration Application card is designed to move data faster across your VDI, and decreases the cost per desktop within the infrastructure.
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LSI Nytro MegaRAID Card and MySQL: a highly scalable approach to solving I/O challenges
Learn how a major online e-tailer recognized the value of the Nytro MegaRAID card, a tightly integrated, balanced, OS and application agnostic
acceleration solution.
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LSI and Proximal Data combine to increase virtual machine (VM) density by up to 300%
The LSI Nytro WarpDrive® PCIe® application acceleration card and Proximal Data® AutoCache™ software help reduce I/O bottleneck to allow servers to support more virtual machines, and helps IT managers significantly improve VM density and efficiency
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Academic Computing Solution Brief
Delivering data to harried administrators and classroom teachers alike at the fastest possible rate for the least possible cost is the dilemma faced by every school system IT team. Now, with the help of LSI storage technologies currently on the market, it is possible to use existing infrastructure for up to 13X better performance with a minimal investment.
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Cloud Computing, Hype or Reality and How to Tell
With LSI Storage Technologies as part of the solution, Cloud Computing has the potential to help business leaders and IT professionals manage costs and improve service levels.
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White Paper (14)
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Considerations for Using Solid-State Storage as an Intelligent Cache to Accelerate Applications
Solid-state disk (SSD) technologies are top of mind in most discussions of enterprise storage infrastructure today. Considerable attention has been focused on the idea of leveraging cost-effective, PCIe-attached solid-state memory to speed transaction processing, augment the speed and throughput of traditional hard disk drives, and reduce overall IT infrastructure power demand.
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Using the Nytro XD Solution to Accelerate SQL Server 2012
Database administrators today are faced with the task of making their systems perform at high levels with an existing hardware infrastructure. Storage subsystems are often the limiting factor and costly to upgrade.
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Increase Oracle Database Performance with the Nytro WarpDrive Card using the Smart Flash Cache Feature
This solution guide describes a reference architecture as a basis for planning and deploying PCIe® compatible flash storage, including several typical use case scenarios.
Version: March 2013
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Deploying the LSI Nytro MegaRAID Card for DAS with SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups for High Availability
Reducing SQL Server wait times and application latency are high priorities on database administrators lists. Learn how the Nytro MegaRAID card used with SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability groups can help.
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Protecting Application Performance during HDD Failure With the Nytro MegaRAID Card
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Accelerating Hadoop and Improving TCO by using the LSI Nytro MegaRAID Card
Hadoop, an open source programming framework, is receiving a lot of attention for its ability to turn large volumes of issimilar data into actionable information. LSI has demonstrated significant results from using Nytro MegaRAID in Hadoop environments.
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Optimizing MS-SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups With Server SSD
Learn how the Nytro MegaRAID card, using a new SQL Server feature called AlwaysOn Availability Groups, can be an economical alternative to shared storage when high availability is required.
Version: Jan 2013
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Hybrid SSD RAID Controllers – by Storage Switzerland
Server side SSD caching solutions are popular
implementation choices for performance upgrades
because they allow users to put the performance right
where it’s needed, in the application server itself.
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Meeting SLAs with the LSI® Nytro™ MegaRAID® Application Acceleration Card for DAS Card
Meeting response time and transaction
rates, Service Level Agreements, even during a hard drive failure, can be challenging.
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Greater VMware ROI with PCIe-attached SSD (by Storage Switzerland)
Server virtualization has delivered a significant return on
investment (ROI) for those companies that have embraced
it, and most data centers have.
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Managing the Data Deluge: Enhancing Big Data Analytics in Financial Services with Solid-State Storage (A UBM Techweb White Paper)
Learn how flash-based solutions, such as the LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Architecture, can help financial services users improve big data modeling capabilities to enable fast, compliant real-time decision making.
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The Revival of Direct Attached Storage for Oracle Databases
The Revival of Direct Attached Storage for Oracle Databases with LSI Nytro MegaRAID intelligent caching technology
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The LSI® Nytro™ XD Solution EnablesCompanies to Stay Within theCritical 3-Second Response Time forOLTP Applications
One of the major factors in limiting response times is disk-based storage. The delays in accessing data are due to the latency of a rotating disk and result in many companies
considering flash technology-based storage.
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Improving Database Performance by Using the LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Solution with Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
Supporting high transaction rates with minimal response times is frequently a requirement for today's enterprise databases, but many Database Administrators (DBA) don't have the time to successfully tune the database to meet these requirements.
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Webinar (8)
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Boost Oracle® Database Performance with LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Solutions
Learn how LSI market segment leading flash technology can dramatically improve database performance. This webinar discusses how to take advantage of Oracle Smart flash Cache, how to meet performance SLAs during constant data growth and how to get up to a 10x improvement in performance, while reducing overall costs.
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Are Data Protection and Caching Right for You?
Learn how the Nytro MegaRAID card uses flash and flash caching to deliver industry-leading performance, broad data protection and automated flash-based acceleration of MegaRAID environments.
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Delivering on the Promise of Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
Learn how flash and flash caching solutions can be used to navigate a complex set of VDI requirements, optimize investment in VDI environments and serve custom desktop images to individual end users while retaining central gold master control.
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Optimizing MS SQL 2012 for Performance and Availability with LSI Nytro Products
Learn how to use flash technology to increase performance and reduce the response times of MS SQL databases and discover how to get more from your existing infrastructure to save on capital expenditures.
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Cloud Acceleration Done Just Right
Learn how hot data, cold data and intelligent caching can benefit your applications and accelerate your virtual environments
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Leveraging Big Data and In-Memory Data Storage for Faster Analytics
This InformationWeek Financial Services webinar discusses how capital markets organizations are turning to big data technology and in memory data storage to stay ahead of the competition, while simultaneously meeting regulatory and compliance demands. Leverage their expertise within your datacenter operations to increase analytics without increasing latency and expand data analysis with more data types.
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Intelligent Flash: Helping Enterprise Apps Run Faster
Helping Enterprise Apps Run Faster Enterprise datacenters are combining flash storage with existing servers to create cost-effective, yet extremely reliable and powerful, solutions to dramatically increase I/Os. Based on a study of flash usage, this webcast will delve into the growing impact of flash on enterprise IT and what it means for business applications, such as: virtualization, big data analytics, and databases (SQL, Oracle, etc).
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Managing the Data Deluge: The Pros and Pitfalls of Solid-State Storage
Learn how IT organizations can respond to the data analytics needs from various business units without adding massive amounts of CPU processing power. This webinar discusses how solid-state storage can speed-up analytics, the impact of data’s explosive growth on the datacenter and how to improve and expand analysis while keeping technology costs in check.
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Nytro Predictor Software Tool Training Video
This video shows you how the Nytro Predictor Software Tool allows IT managers to help identify where their hot data is and to predict how LSI caching solutions can help accelerate their applications.
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Breakthrough Database Storage Acceleration
Shot at Oracle OpenWorld 2012, this video explains how the LSI Nytro™ family enables a smarter, faster way to accelerate database applications by combining solid-state storage with intelligent software solutions.
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Oracle OpenWorld 2012 – theCube Interview with LSI
LSI Principal Technical Marketing Manager Jamon Bowen enters "The Cube" at Oracle Open World 2012 to talk about LSI's approach to Flash in the Enterprise, the use of intelligent Flash as cache to enable high performance, and how the LSI Accelerated Solutions Division delivers application acceleration products that are fast, smart and easy to use.
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Introducing Nytro Application Acceleration Solutions
Through the intelligent use of Solid State Storage, LSI Nytro Solution (Application Accelerator) deliver high performance while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Nytro™ Architecture
Tony Afshary, Director, Technical & Product Marketing, LSI Accelerated Solutions Division, discusses the Nytro™ architecture.
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Nytro™ XD Storage Area Networks
Satadal Bhattacharjee, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, LSI Accelerated Solutions Division, discusses Nytro™ XD Storage Area Networks
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Nytro™ WarpDrive The Performance Story
JB Baker, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, LSI Accelerated Solutions Division, discusses the performance benefits of Nytro™ WarpDrive.
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Nytro™ WarpDrive Smart and Easy
JB Baker, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, LSI Accelerated Solutions Division, discusses the performance benefits of Nytro™ WarpDrive.
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Nytro™ Predictor™ Software Tool
Rob Callaghan, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, LSI Accelerated Solutions Division, discusses the new Nytro™ Predictor™ Software Tool.
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Nytro™ MegaRAID® Storage Solution
Jamon Bowen, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, LSI Accelerated Solutions Division, discusses the new Nytro™ MegaRAID® Storage Solution.
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Provide better response times for business and database applications. Accelerate application such as web serving, data warehousing, data mining, and online transaction processing. MegaRAID Advanced Software Options are designed to enhance performance and provide advanced data management and protection for whitebox channel customers employing 6Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS controllers.
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