NetApp, Astute, GreenBytes, and Whiptail Technology stepped more deeply into the solid state drive market with announcements of hardware and software that accelerate application performance and decrease latency.

NetApp unveiled Flash Accel, a server-caching technology for its ONTAP operating system. Flash Accel is part of the company’s virtual storage tiering (VST) portfolio of products, which also includes Flash Cache and NetApp Flash Pool. With NetApp’s VST, IT administrators can manage flash memory at the server level, controller level, or disk level.
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