HP claims that its Gen8 Smart Array RAID controller with SSDs is 60 times faster than the previous generation controller with hard disk drives. And, with PCIe Gen 3 support, bandwidth has been increased by more than 85%, the company said.

HP in March 2010. Last month, HP released some details about the , which is based on Intel's upcoming Xeon E5 processors.

In addition to supporting SSDs in its ProLiant server line, HP said it is offering something called SmartMemory and "flexible" 10GbE networking ports.

HP said that with SSDs, Dynamic Workload Accelteration, SmartMemory and 10GbE connectivity performance of some applications will increase by up to 50%, including transactional throughput for OLTP and video streaming. It also said the servers will use 88% less energy and 75% less floor space, and enable the deployment of 30% more virtual machines (VMs) with a reduction of 40% in energy-per-VM.

"We designed our memory to handle enterprise application workloads by increasing the bandwidth by 25% while offering 50% better capacities and 35% memory uptime improvement using our Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology," HP said in a blog. "Key goal for our memory design was to achieve power efficiency as we increased performance. All this translates to more virtual machines, database acceleration and efficient balanced system resource allocation to handle any workload."