Adaptec MaxIQ is the simple storage accelerator
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A recent article described a major social media site’s disappointing results with the latest generation of multi-core servers. Further analysis indicated that in virtualized environments such as VMware, Xen and Hyper-V, the CPU is usually not the bottleneck. Improvements in storage speed have not kept pace with the rapidly improving CPUs. Described as the storage performance gap, the inability of hard disk drives (HDDs) to keep up with the workload is a tough problem for organizations that have relied on server improvements to offset the growth demands.

