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Demartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI WarpDrive Performance

Demartek announces its evaluation of the LSI WarpDrive Acceleration Card in an access-intensive Web server environment. The LSI WarpDrive Acceleration Card is a solid state storage implementation that plugs into the PCI Express® (PCIe) bus in a server.

“We achieved tremendous Web server performance, very quick response time and low power consumption with the LSI WarpDrive card,” said Dennis Martin, Demartek president. “We had to move to our 10GbE network to get the full performance of the WarpDrive, achieving more than 100 million Web hits in 90 minutes.”

The Demartek evaluation of the LSI WarpDrive Acceleration Card is available here or by following the links on the Demartek Web site.

Additional Demartek SSD resources are available in the Demartek SSD Zone.

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