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PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), or PCIe, is a high-speed peripheral interconnect bus standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. It features numerous improvements over these legacy bus standards such as an increase in system bus throughput, reduced I/O pin counts, smaller physical footprints, improved performance scaling, and hot-plug functionality.
STEC now features a family of PCIe-based high endurance solid-state accelerators (SSAs) that enable server consolidation and accelerated access to data in the data center. By moving data, and access to data, closer to the server's CPU to take advantage of the faster PCIe super highway, STEC harnesses the processing power of the server to accelerate data flow, improve server utilization and maximize application performance.
The STEC's PCIe SSA family integrates PCIe and flash technologies onto a compact, power-efficient, on-board application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based card that avoids having to use the host system's memory and CPU cycles to perform flash management tasks, but rather, frees up these resources to perform more critical server functions, such as application acceleration. Data centers equipped with STEC's PCIe SSAs require fewer and lower cost server deployments that translate into lower total operating costs.
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