Imperial has a number of white papers available that discuss the merits of using solid state disk and cache products in different applications. The following papers also provide a link to a PDF version at the bottom of each page.


White Papers & Briefs

Integrating Solid Sate Disk into Email Routing Infrastructures for Maximum Performance, Cost Reduction, & Zero Mail Loss This 8-page paper explains the inner I/O workings of commercial email systems and why many emails systems are severely constrained by I/O capability.  A case study is presented of a Government Agency with over 100,000 end-users and 60,000 messages per hour with queuing.

Accelerating EAI for Business Impact This technical brief discusses solutions for mitigating risks of EAI performance degradation in high transaction rate environments.

What Is Good Application Performance This brief discusses the context dependant nature of IO and illustrates the differences between measuring performance in MB/s and IOPS.

LUN Access Security in a SAN This paper discusses why sharing data in a heterogeneous SAN can compromise data security and how LUN access security in a SAN protects data.

Sun Microsystems Messaging IDC Reference Architecture by The Radicati Group, Inc.  Details the MegaRam 2000 in Sun's Internet Data Center Reference Architecture.

Tuning Oracle Databases with Solid State Accelerators by Kwajah Mohiuddin of Citibank  

Large-Scale Enterprise Software Performance Analysis with Solid State Disk Technology

Supercharging Telco Applications for Business Enhancement by Daniel Sweeney of America's Network.  

HIGH IMPACT: A Guide to Imperial's MegaCache-4000 Implementation
Written in conjunction with Oracle, this paper shows how the MegaCache-4000 gave an Oracle database a 900% improvement in performance.  

Tuning Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Using Solid State Accelerators
Prepared for inclusion into the soon-to-be-released books, Sybase Sys Admin and Sybase P&T by Jeffrey Garbus, published by Wordware Publishing.

Web Performance Enhancement with Solid State Disk Written by Dr. Mitchell F. Wyle, Managing Director of Concept Communications.

Microsoft SQL Server and Solid State Accelerators Recently published in Computer Technology Review.

A CASE STUDY: Enhancing SAP Performance with Solid State Disk Written by Firooz Khodaday, a consultant at Information Systems Associations. 

The Tragedy of Throwing Memory at an I/O Problem by Mike Pluta, Senior Consultant with Northern Lights Consulting.

The State of Solid State Disk Originally published in Computer Technology Review.


Technology Papers


Testing Unix System Performance How to discover if your system is suffering from an I/O bottleneck.

Error Correction Techniques for Solid State Disk  This paper describes the differences between common error correction technologies.

Tuning Storage Area Networks (SANs) with Solid State Disk  This paper discusses new ways to optimize performance in a SAN.