Friday, September 18, 2009

HP offers SSDs in ProLiant server line

Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday that it will offer 60GB and 120GB SSD (solid-state disk) drives as an option across the full range of HP ProLiant G6 servers, as well as in select ProLiant G5 servers.

The SATA (serial-ATA) SSDs, from Samsung Electronics Co., are aimed at supporting virtualized environments and I/O intensive applications where the latest HP ProLiant G6 servers are often deployed, the company said. Virtualized environments require significant memory, data storage, and network connections to optimize server performance.

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