SanDisk Corporation
(NASDAQ: SNDK),
a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that Kaminario,
a scale-out all-flash array provider, has selected the Optimus™ Serial
Attached SCSI (SAS) solid-state drive (SSD) for use in its
next-generation K2 all solid-state SAN storage solution.
Leveraging the Optimus SSD, the Kaminario K2 broke the Storage
Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark world record for performance on
Oct. 17, 2013, averaging up to 1.24M IOPS and 10GB/s of data throughput
from the 86TB test system. Kaminario chose the Optimus SSD for its
industry leading combination of capacity, performance, endurance and
value which allowed the Kaminario K2 to also achieve one of the best
price performance results to date of $0.80 per SPC-1 IOPS.
“All-flash arrays are beginning to grow in popularity as a solution that
delivers higher performance, improved responsiveness, and better
efficiency,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research director for solid state
storage at IDC. “The key to their continued growth will not only be more
cost-effective solutions, but also gains in total system capacity and
the ability of drive manufacturers to extend flash endurance to meet a
broad set of application needs.”
“Organizations worldwide are looking for consistent and linear scale of
performance to enable accurate and faster decision making from massive
data sets,” Ritu Jyoti, vice president of product management at
Kaminario. “The Optimus SSDs allow the K2 to deliver the performance and
capacity needed for nearly any application at a reasonable cost. This
not only enables us to meet customer performance and budgetary needs,
but break world records in the process.”
The Optimus SSD leverages the Guardian Technology™ Platform, a
proprietary suite of durability features, to deliver enterprise-class
uptime over the life of the storage. This ensures the Kaminario K2 can
meet the endurance requirements of write-intensive applications using
lower cost multi-level cell (MLC) flash technology. The Guardian
Technology Platform also delivers a full suite of enterprise features to
the Optimus SSD, including backup power circuit technology, full data
path protection, data fail recovery, thermal monitoring and AES 256-bit
encryption.
“Our customers have shifted their focus from building bigger boxes, to
packing more performance, capacity and reliability into more compact
form factors. However, to do so, OEMs and integrators often must make
sacrifices between the three,” said Steve Fingerhut, vice president of
marketing, Enterprise Storage Solutions at SanDisk. “The Optimus SSD
enables us to strike a balance between the performance, capacity,
reliability, and endurance organizations require, enabling our customers
to deliver innovative solutions without making sacrifices in the
process.”
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company,
is a global leader in data storage solutions. For more than 25 years,
SanDisk’s ideas and innovative products have transformed the electronics
industry. Today, SanDisk’s state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart
of many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced
smart phones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available
at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more
information, visit www.sandisk.com.
© 2013 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk is a trademark
of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other
countries. Optimus and Guardian Technology are trademarks of SanDisk
Enterprise IP LLC. SPC Benchmark-1 and SPC-1 IOPS, are trademarks of the
Storage Performance Council. Kaminario and K2 are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Kaminario, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification
purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
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may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that
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