Kaminario Storage Performance News

February 07, 2012

85 percent of Kaminario's Capacity Today is Flash

Editor:- February 7, 2012 - Here's an update on the long running RAM versus flash transition in enterprise SSD accelerators.

It's about 20 months since Kaminario entered the SSD market as a new name in the RAM SSD market - and just 6 months since the company also started offering flash - as a hybrid or pure alternative - based on PCIe SSDs from Fusion-io.

Yesterday I asked Kaminario's VP of marketing - Gareth Taube how's the flash thing going? And can you tell me and my readers what proportion of recent system shipments are flash rather than RAM. He told me - "I would say we are running about 45% all flash arrays, 45% Hybrids (but the hybrids are mostly Flash with 10% DRAM) and about 10% all DRAM. At least that is the way it has been running in the last 2 quarters."