GridIron: Brawn and Brains to Improve IO Performance

With the increasing pressure on IT to not only deliver "more" but to deliver "more, faster," the IO bottleneck in serving data-intensive applications is coming under increased scrutiny. GridIron offers an appliance that is the IT equivalent of putting applications and IO on steroids; moreover, it does so in a way that overcomes the two key concerns- data integrity and vendor longevity-that have plagued many earlier "application turbo-chargers."