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January 23, 2012
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Kaminario CEO Dani Golan Weighs In on SSD SAN Storage in the Enterprise |
In a Just-Released Video, Golan Discusses Need for a Different, High Performance Storage Architecture to Effectively Utilize the Speed of Solid-State Media
NEWTON, Mass. — Jan. 23, 2012 – Kaminario, a leading provider of high performance all solid-state Flash and DRAM SAN storage solutions, today announced a new video featuring company co-founder and CEO Dani Golan, who discusses SSD SAN storage in the enterprise and the “biggest revolution in data centers today.” In the video, Golan talks about how 80 percent of application performance problems can be tracked to storage I/O. He believes that solid-state media will completely replace high performance hard disk drives (HDDs) by the end of the decade. However, in order to do that, companies will need a different approach with their storage architecture.
Golan states:
"Old storage architecture will not work effectively with solid-state media, which are very different from rotational disks. In order to truly utilize this new type of electronic disks, you will need a dramatically different architecture, and that’s exactly what we’ve developed with the Kaminario K2."
Golan explains that solid-state media requires an architecture that will take full advantage of its speed potential while protecting companies from any reliability and endurance challenges. Kaminario understands that a scale-out architecture is the right architecture for solid state.
Golan continues by pointing out that customers need a different ratio between CPU network and the media, therefore the Kaminario K2 was built with “a very fine-grained” scale-out architecture called SPEAR (Scale-out Performance Storage Architecture). The architecture also has to be open, which is why SPEAR employs best-of-breed open components for its x86 platform and media. SPEAR also includes the freedom to choose the right media (Flash and/or DRAM) depending on the storage workload. Lastly, because protecting solid-state media is different from protecting HDDs, Kaminario introduced its own unique RAID 10HD, designed specifically for providing end-to-end high availability and enterprise-class data protection with solid-state media.
Golan concludes by stating that the Kaminario SPEAR architecture "allows us to lead the revolution for all solid-state SAN storage" by providing customers with "blazingly fast SAN storage that is self-healing, highly available and resilient to any type of failure, and all at a cost that is lower than that of legacy SAN storage."
To view this five-minute Kaminario video with CEO Dani Golan, go to: http://www.kaminario.com/Resources/Videos/.
About Kaminario
Founded by storage experts from EMC, NetApp and IBM, Kaminario is leading the Flash and DRAM SSD revolution in high performance SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 family of all solid-state SAN storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency to accelerate critical business applications at a significantly lower cost and smaller footprint than legacy SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 is the first enterprise-grade SAN storage built from the ground up to take full advantage of modern Flash and DRAM SSD performance. With built-in self-healing high availability, a modular scale-out architecture, open X86 components and media freedom of choice, the K2 consistently delivers ultra-low latency, tens of GB/s of throughput and millions of IOPS. Kaminario is a fundamentally new and better way to store and retrieve performance-sensitive data. Kaminario is simply faster.
Located in Newton, Mass., Kaminario has built a global network of business partners, including Dell Inc., which resells the K2 all solid-state SAN storage.
Contact:
Beth Bryant
508-786-3013
bbryant@marketrecognition.com
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