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Middleton, MA, July 13, 2019 --(PR.com)-- StarWind, Intel, Mellanox, and Supermicro present the
industry's fastest hyperconverged cluster built to demonstrate outstanding hardware utilization efficiency.
StarWind, a leading provider of hyperconverged IT environments for SMB and ROBO, conjoined its
effort with the leading hardware vendors to build a large environment capable of delivering enough
performance to break the current industry speed record. The similar setup was used before by Microsoft
to set its HCI industry high score. The only difference is that we managed to squeeze maximum
performance out of the underlying storage thanks to the effective symbiosis of hardware and software.
By building such environment, StarWind, Supermicro, Mellanox, and Intel demonstrated that HCI
performance high scores should be not about IOPS but more about efficient hardware utilization. Every
time faster disks will appear, others may chinch higher number of IOPS just because their storage may be
more powerful by design or there may be more drives in servers. However, the only thing that matters in
this race is hardware utilization efficiency. Moneywise, this means that you can get all the IOPS that you
paid for. What's the use of an all-flash array that provides you only a mere fraction of the performance
that you expect? Remember: the number of IOPS that you can squeeze from the underlying storage is
minute, hardware utilization efficiency is eternal.
About StarWind
About Supermicro
Supermicro is a global leader in high-efficiency server technology and innovation that develops and
provides end-to-end green computing solutions to datacenter, cloud computing, enterprise IT, big data,
HPC, and embedded markets. Supermicro SuperServers used in our study are nothing but the “Linux” of
hardware platforms.
About Mellanox
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Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end interconnect solutions and services for servers,
storage, and hyperconverged infrastructure. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions increase
datacenter efficiency by providing the highest throughput, delivering data transfer to applications, and
unlocking system performance.
About Intel
Being known for its powerful CPUs, Intel provides various solutions for cloud computing, real-time
analytics, mission-critical data processing. These days, Intel develops both hardware and software, but
blazing fast storage and CPUs still remain its main focus. Intel Optane drives used in our study are
nothing but the fastest storage to date.
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Contact Information:
StarWind
Brooke Johnson
+1-617-449-7717
Contact via Email
https://www.starwindsoftware.com
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