CacheBox Adds Micron P420m PCIe SSD to Hardware Compatibility List 

CacheBox, Inc. has announced the addition of Micron’s P420m PCIe SSD to the company’s Hardware Compatibility List. The P420m joins other Enterprise SSDs from Micron that are qualified for use with CacheAdvance, CacheBox’s unique application acceleration software that enables significant improvements in application throughput and processing with no disruption to a company’s compute or storage infrastructure.

CacheBox CEO Lorenzo Salhi, said, “Micron continues to deliver world class innovations in Enterprise SSDs. Our mutual customers benefit from the leading edge value that each of us bring to the market. We’re very pleased to work with an industry leader like Micron.”

“When using ultra-high performance storage like our P420m PCIe SSD, it’s important to focus on the most critical workloads,” said Allen Holmes, VP of Customer Enablement, Storage Business for Micron. “We’re excited to work with partners like CacheBox who can deliver innovative software solutions that help end users get the most out of their storage investment.”

CacheBox’s internal testing of CacheAdvance shows significant performance improvements and latency reductions with MySQL and enables customers to realize the most cost effective solution for bridging application requirements of performance and capacity.

CacheAdvance is a software-only, application centric solution that removes application input/output (IO) bottlenecks in a targeted manner. It works by monitoring application IO requests and intelligently determines which data to accelerate to provide optimal performance and user experience.