Solid Data Systems: E-mail Services & Solid Data Solid-State Disks

E-mail Services & Solid Data Solid-State Disks

E-Mail Services

Improves performance of E-mail applications 200% to 800%
Reduces Total Cost of Ownership of transaction-intensive applications on a per-transaction basis
Scalability allows transaction performance requirements to grow quickly

Solid Data Systems is the leading global provider of solid-state disk systems that turbocharge the performance of transaction-intensive applications. Solid Data's unique offerings combine software and hardware functionality to enable customers to achieve dramatic performance improvements in I/O-intensive E-mail applications such as E-mail Message Relay, Message Store and Directory services.

Most mobile E-mail Services share similar characteristics:

Business-critical service
24 x 7 availability required
Large number of small data records to be processed
Random access to the application by customers
Fast growing demand for the service / application
Transaction-intensive applications
Real time processing necessary

E-mail services are the ideal application profile for solid-state disks. Solid Data solid-state disks deliver high performance storage solutions that enable applications to process significantly more transactions while greatly improving cost-performance ratios. By placing the files that are constantly being used by the application ("hot files") on the solid-state disk, the solid-state disk architecture eliminates mechanical latency of traditional disk arrays (RAID), as illustrated below.

Eliminating the mechanical latency of traditional disk arrays (RAID)

E-mail applications that significantly benefit from placing hot files on Solid Data solid-state disks include:
Message Relay queues IMAP server mailboxes file Message Store System redo logs, rollback segments, and database indices	Message Store System file system journals Directory

Examples of organizations today using Solid Data solid-state disks with their E-mail solutions include:
Critical Path Prodigy	University of North Carolina Juno On-line