Ranging in capacity from 1TB to 6.4TB, new
cards leverage SanDisk NAND to deliver up to 4x price performance
improvement and 2x capacity across varying workloads
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today unveiled a new generation of its Fusion
ioMemoryTM PCIe application accelerators to dramatically improve
performance, while helping to drive data center consolidation and
lower total cost of ownership. The new Fusion ioMemory PCIe
application accelerators—comprised of SanDisk NAND flash, and
Virtual Storage Layer (VSL) data access acceleration
software—deliver up to a 4x price performance improvement, with up
to a 61 percent list price reduction over the previous generation
Fusion ioDrive®2 product1.
“Fusion-io’s technology fundamentally transformed expectations
about data center performance when it debuted eight years ago and
it remains the standard by which all other PCIe products are
judged,” said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general
manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions, SanDisk. “Combining the
power of Fusion ioMemory technology with SanDisk’s vertically
integrated NAND flash, our engineering talent and portfolio of SATA
and SAS SSDs, provides customers with an unparalleled combination
of flexibility, performance, scalability, quality and value to help
solve their data center challenges.”
A recent Gartner report indicates that “with the proliferation
of server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI),
in-memory computing applications, and the need for real-time
analytics, Gartner has detected a heightened focus on PCIe
technology”2. Over 250,000 Fusion ioMemory PCIe application
accelerators have been deployed by more than 7,000 customers
including storage DataLogix, ObjectRocket by Rackspace, Pandora,
Santa Monica City College, ServiceNow, TransUnion, the University
of Michigan and University of Victoria, making Fusion ioMemory a
proven and safe choice for business-critical data centers.
The Fusion ioMemory portfolio offers an array of form factors
ranging from PCIe cards to mezzanine storage for HP and Cisco blade
servers. Each card is optimized for mixed-use or read-intensive
workloads and can also be paired with SanDisk’s recently announced
next generation FlashSoft caching software, which reduces I/O
latency in VMware vSphere®, Windows Server® and Linux environments,
helping customers further accelerate enterprise applications.
“At Dell, we’re committed to providing customers with solutions
that have enterprise-class storage reliability and serviceability,”
said Ravi Pendekanti, vice president, Dell Server Solutions. “By
providing high-performance storage devices in our PowerEdge
portfolio – such as the Fusion ioMemory PCIe accelerators – we’re
giving our customers powerful solutions to address their most
demanding enterprise environments.”
Accelerating Time to Value for Customer Applications
Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards solve one of the most challenging
data center computing problems: reducing the length of time and
infrastructure needed to extract data out of conventional hard
drive-based storage systems. By streamlining data access, Fusion
ioMemory cards can increase performance—and thereby customer
satisfaction—associated with Microsoft SQL, Oracle and MySQL
databases, as well as new database technologies such as Spark,
Redis and MongoDB. For example, with Fusion ioMemory, customers can
speed up search or ecommerce applications or shrink the time
required to run database reports by 7x or more3.
“Every aspect of our stack has been tuned to make MongoDB fast,
which is why we only use the fastest storage like PCIe application
accelerators in our platform. No matter what the instance size is,
everyone’s application deserves the best quality of service,” said
Chris Lalonde, chief executive and co-founder of ObjectRocket. “We
rely on the superior performance of Fusion ioMemory PCIe
application accelerators so that our customers get more
transactions per second and more consistent performance without the
typical penalty of a shared cloud environment.”
By substantially reducing the total amount of hardware, software
and other equipment required to manage and run critical
applications, customers regularly experience data center
consolidations of 3x or more4.
“Our business relies on being able to offer a single, integrated
IT work-flow and management system around a single system of
record,” said Allan Leinwand, vice president and chief technology
officer, Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, ServiceNow.
“SanDisk and Fusion-io are experts in solid-state storage
and flash technology with a decades-long history of delivering
innovation. We utilize their PCIe solutions so that
we can be successful in helping CIOs focus on delivering business
value from the ServiceNow enterprise cloud.”
The newly updated Fusion ioMemory application accelerator
portfolio includes:
- SX350 and SX300 Series—Ranging
in capacity from 1.25TB up to 6.4TB, the SX350 and SX300 provide a
cost-efficient solution for both mixed-use workloads such as
virtualization, databases, business intelligence and real-time
financial data processing and read-intensive workloads, such as web
hosting, data mining, seismic data processing, content caching, 3D
Animation, and CAD/CAM.
- PX600 Series—Ranging from 1TB up
to 5.2TB, the PX600 series is designed for mixed-use workloads such
as virtualization, databases, business intelligence and real-time
financial data processing.
- Mezzanine Series—Available on
the latest HP Gen9 and Gen8 BladeSystem Servers and the newest
CISCO UCS B-Series Blade Servers, the SanDisk’s Mezzanine Series
delivers high performance and density gains over hard disk drives
for virtualized environments. Utilizing the Mezzanine cards helps
support more virtual machines per server, and accelerates database
mining and business intelligence, resulting in cost and time
savings.
- FlashSoft Bundles—The new
bundles deliver the benefits of Fusion ioMemory flash hardware and
caching software in a single solution that is easy to evaluate,
deploy and support, regardless of storage operating systems or
architectures.
Each of the new Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards also offer 2x more
random read performance over the ioDrive2 generation for increased
endurance, and an updated Virtual Storage Layer (VSL), which
provides direct memory access, minimizes latency and maximizes
application throughput1.
The new portfolio of Fusion ioMemory PCIe application
accelerators is available immediately for customer qualification.
It is also available through the SanDisk Enterprise Reseller
Partner Program for SanDisk Commercial Business Channel partners
that resell select SanDisk data center hardware and software
solutions. To learn more about how Fusion ioMemory PCIe devices can
accelerate your business, visit SanDisk at booth #1767 during the
Interop Las Vegas Expo taking place April 28-30 at the Mandalay Bay
Convention Center. Alternatively, check out
www.sandisk.com/enterprise, the SanDisk IT Blog or view this video
about the new generation of Fusion ioMemory products. You can also
register for our webinar series on the business benefits Fusion
ioMemory application accelerators deliver, taking place Tuesday,
May 12, 2015 at 8:30am PT. Further notes on the history of Fusion
ioMemory innovation and benefits delivered to data center
infrastructures can be viewed here.
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About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500
company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more
than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage,
providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the
electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality, 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.
© 2015 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk is a
trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States
and other countries. Fusion ioMemory, ioDrive, FlashSoft and VSL
are trademarks of SanDisk Enterprise IP LLC. Other brand names
mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be
the trademarks of their respective holder(s). The performance
results and cost savings discussed herein are based on internal
testing and use of Fusion ioMemory products. Results and
performance may vary according to configurations and systems,
including drive capacity, system architecture and applications.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for new product offerings, product
availability, capacities, capabilities, performance, usability and
compatibility, our supply chain and market trends that are based on
current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties
that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate.
Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate include among others: our new product offerings may not
be available when we expect, in the manner or capacities that we
expect, with the capabilities, usability or compatibility that we
expect or perform as expected, we may have insufficient or
mismatched captive memory output, capacity or inventory, the market
may not evolve as expected or the other risks detailed from
time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and
reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent annual
report on Form 10-K. We do not intend to update the information
contained in this news release.
This news release contains references and links to third-party
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websites.
1 Price/performance numbers as compared to ioDrive2 and current
list pricing.2 Gartner, “Market Trends: The Next-Generation
Server-Side SSD Landscape,” February 2015.3 Example from Transunion
Interactive case study, a financial services customer that reduced
report time by 7-9X by replacing three server blades and four
shelves of storage with a single blade containing three Fusion
ioMemory PCIe cards.4 Example from WeMakePrice case study, a $1
billion e-commerce company in South Korea that reduced its
footprint by 3:1, while increasing random query times by 120x and
VM build times by 6X with Fusion ioMemory.
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