by Computer Technology Review staff

Talk about a need for speed. The Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) recently hosted one of its partners, Xiotech (www.xiotech.com), in an attempt to achieve 60,000 Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) on the company’s Hybrid Intelligent Storage Element (ISE). Hybrid ISE – which is built to deliver high performance in random I/O workloads such as virtualization, data warehousing and messaging – intelligently integrates HDDs and SSDs into a single ‘logical drive.’