OCZ Technology Group, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs), has announced the new Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCI Express (PCIe) SSD solution, designed to dramatically accelerate cloud computing applications and significa

ntly reduce operating expenses in the data center. The new Z-Drive R4 CloudServ features monumental data throughput, and raises the bar in performance and capacity.

“The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe solid state drive delivers game-changing performance and enables clients to process massive data-sets with up to 16TB of storage capacity on a single, easy-to-deploy card,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. “With this new solution, system architects are able to design more efficient and dynamic cloud computing infrastructures while simultaneously reducing system complexity and the high maintenance costs associated with traditional infrastructures.”

With increasing emphasis on cloud computing and the sheer growth in data, PCIe-based flash storage systems have the ability to bypass traditional storage overhead by reducing latencies, increasing throughput, and enabling efficient processing of massive quantities of data. The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ is capable of transferring multiple gigabytes per second and delivering over a million IOPS with a level of concentrated performance that enables system architects to design more productive and less complex infrastructures while lowering costs associated with hardware failure, maintenance, structural footprint, and energy consumption.

“The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe solid state drive delivers game-changing performance”

Melding hardware and software managed solutions with OCZ’s integrated Virtualized Controller Architecture™ (VCA) 2.0 and OCZ’s SANRAD VXL virtual acceleration caching software, the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ can be employed as a high-performing host-based flash cache that works in conjunction with OCZ’s VXL to dynamically allocate flash resources to accelerate all virtual machines

OCZ Z-Drives integrate seamlessly with servers at the system bus and kernel level, creating a new flash memory tier and dramatically increasing data throughput and cloud application performance all while slashing capital and operating costs.

The Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD will be available in models ranging from 300GB-16TB capacities. Please contact us for availability and pricing.