Solid Data Earns Cluster Server Certification

Solid Data Systems earned VERITAS Cluster Server Certification for its Excellerator 800 Ultra solid-state storage system. Now, VERITAS customers can use Solid Data’s file-caching systems to reduce switch-over and recovery times and improve overall cluster performance and scalability.VERITAS Cluster Server lets customers create server clusters of up to 32 nodes by connecting two or more servers to a common storage pool. If an interruption occurs on one or more servers, the cluster server automatically switches applications to one or more live servers. Solid Data’s file-caching products enhance cluster performance by providing ultrafast I/O for log files that the system continuously generates and sends between servers."If a Web page takes longer than 8 seconds to load, the customer will go elsewhere," says Mike Casey, Solid Data’s marketing vice president. "File caching not only reduces the wait time but multiplies overall e-transaction performance and scalability as well."Solid Data has also started working with the VERITAS Storage Area Network Integration Lab to pretest the fibre channel version of its Excellerator 800 file-caching system.