HyVE Systems Selects OCZ's Talos 2 SAS-Based SSDs

OCZ Research Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives for computing devices and systems, today announced that its SAS-based Talos 2 SSDs have been selected by HyVE Systems for implementation within three high-compute platforms targeted for virtual desktop infrastructure academic and corporate end user compute solutions. Providing stellar read/write input/output operations per second performance, high reliability and availability of stored data and desktop applications, the ability to grow with the HyVE Systems platforms, and cost-effectiveness were the key attributes that aided in the selection of OCZ Talos 2 drives.

HyVE Systems' VDI solutions are smaller, less expensive high-compute platforms that can run either 100+ or 200+ VDI desktops on a single node. For instance, many K-12 school districts do not have the budgets to purchase, deploy and maintain brand new computing equipment for their student population and must leverage the existing network infrastructure to cost-effectively extend its life during enabling students and teachers to use their own computing devices regardless of age, operating system or hardware architecture. This approach enables state-of-the-art VDI solutions to be stored as a virtualized desktop on the HyVE central server platform so that students and teachers can work from whatever local computing device they have during the system programs, applications, processes and data are kept on the remote server and run centrally.

6Gb/s SAS interface

Supporting a 6Gb/s SAS interface, capacities up to 1TB, and 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors, Talos 2 SSDs are designed exactly for mixed workloads in enterprise environments. HyVE Systems leverages OCZ's Virtualized Controller Architecture 2.0 innovation which implements an intelligent complex command queuing structure with in a class by itself queue balancing algorithms that improves performance even furthermore. As a result, Talos 2 SSDs deliver the industry's fastest random transactional performance supporting up to 70,000 random 4K read IOPS and 54,000 IOPS for mixed 4K workloads representing 75 percent reads and 25 percent writes.

"We are very pleased to have been selected by HyVE Systems as part of this highly optimized virtual desktop platform empowering academia with leading-edge cloud solutions that fit within a fixed school budget, meet performance objectives and scale to the needs of the school district and its students," said Alex Mei, CMO of OCZ Innovation Group. "We feel that HyVE's concept of building simple and reliable high-compute servers that can run VDI desktops efficiently and cost-effectively will exactly according to instructions provide a VDI hotspot for students that will enhance their user experience."

HyVE Systems has developed three unparalleled VDI high-compute servers that include a standalone VDI-in-a-box solution that supports 8 Talos 2 SSDs and is ideal for small-to-medium-sized business applications; a clustered VDI solution that supports 12 Talos 2 SSDs and can scale from 100 to 10,000 VDI desktops; and a tethered VDI solution that supports 16 Talos 2 SSDs and expands the capabilities of the existing VMWare infrastructure without expensive overhead costs. The first of these VDI-specific HyVE Systems have been delivered to school districts in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and are scheduled to go live later this month.

HyVE Systems LLC is a Waxahachie, Texas based company, committed to providing IT services to corporate, government, and educational institutions. The services they offer include virtualization infrastructure design/implementation, network design/implementation, extensive Microsoft design/implementation, training in core competencies, high speed wireless communications for LAN and WAN environments, and consulting for any other type of research applications. The company is committed to provide quality turnkey IT solutions that meet all customer networking requirements. For more information, please visit: www.hyvesystems.co .

Founded in 2002, San Jose, CA-based OCZ Innovation Group, Inc. is a leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high performance and reliable Solid-State Drives and premium computer elements. OCZ has built on its expertise in high-speed memory to become a leader in the enterprise and consumer SSD markets, a innovation that competes with traditional rotating magnetic hard disk drives. SSDs are faster, more reliable, generate less heat and use significantly less power than the HDDs used in the majority of computers today. Just in case to SSD innovation, OCZ as well offers high performance elements for computing devices and systems, including enterprise-class power management products as then as leading-edge computer gaming solutions.  For more information, please visit: www.ocztechnology.com .