New CloudSpeed™ Solid State Drives Optimized
for Demanding Transaction Processing and Content Repository
Workloads for Enterprise and Cloud Applications
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today announced four new additions to its
CloudSpeed Serial ATA (SATA) product family: the CloudSpeed
Extreme™, CloudSpeed Ultra™, CloudSpeed Ascend™ and CloudSpeed Eco™
Solid State Drives (SSDs). The new CloudSpeed SSDs are designed to
deliver business-critical performance for the mixed-use, read and
write-intensive application workloads that have become increasingly
prominent in today’s enterprise data centers and cloud computing
environments. By combining its flash management Guardian
TechnologyTM Platform with industry-leading memory technology,
SanDisk becomes the first vendor to ship 10 full drive writes per
day (DWPD)1, 19nm-based enterprise SATA SSDs. The CloudSpeed
products thus provide customers with longer-lasting drive operation
at a better value. The announcement was made at the Interop and
Cloud Connect IT Conference and Expo taking place March 31-April 3
in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The CloudSpeed SATA SSD product family is
designed to deliver business-critical performance for mixed-use,
read and write-intensive application workloads prominent in today's
enterprise data centers and cloud computing environments. (Photo:
Business Wire)
“Organizations in every industry are turning to SSDs to meet the
challenges faced by growing volumes of data,” said John Scaramuzzo,
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Storage
Solutions at SanDisk. “However, finding a solution that meets the
performance and cost needs of your individual environment can be
difficult. The CloudSpeed SATA SSD product family was designed to
meet the needs of applications across the read-write spectrum,
meaning organizations and server designers no longer need to make
tradeoffs between system performance and cost.”
An estimated 90 percent of the world’s data has been generated
within the last two years2, effectively catapulting the enterprise
into the era of ‘Big Data’. Traditional hard disk drive-based data
centers are struggling to keep up with increasing performance
demands because they lack the throughput, consume a lot of power,
and are not as reliable as solid state drives. As a result,
organizations are searching for new ways to structure their data
centers in order to quickly manipulate and analyze large pools of
information and drive better business decisions.
"We are only at the early stages of becoming a data-driven
society that wants instantaneous access to our information,” said
Jeff Janukowicz, Research Director, at IDC. “To deliver real-time
or near real-time insight to drive business decisions,
organizations worldwide will need to consider high performance
storage solutions, such as SSDs, thereby driving demand for these
solutions in the coming years.”
The new CloudSpeed SATA SSDs provide the necessary performance
and reliability to meet the demands of various enterprise
application workloads—such as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP),
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), Analytics, High Performance
Computing (HPC), Web 2.0 Content Repositories and Media Streaming.
This enables enterprise IT organizations and system vendors to
simplify design efforts when developing data center systems for
multiple applications.
The SanDisk CloudSpeed Serial ATA (SATA) product family offers
the following range of endurance and performance capabilities:
- CloudSpeed Extreme—This
high-endurance SSD achieves up to 10 full capacity DWPD with a 5
year warranty1 and delivers up to 75K/25K IOPS of random read/write
performance for write-intensive application workloads such as
Database Logging and High Performance Computing (HPC). It comes in
capacities ranging from 100GB to 800GB and supports up to 14.6
Petabytes Written (PBW) to the drive over its life.
- CloudSpeed Ultra—This
high-performance drive achieves up to 3 full DWPD with a 5 year
warranty1 and is optimized for mixed-use application workloads such
as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Financial Transactions,
Email/Messaging, E-Commerce, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
and Collaboration. The CloudSpeed Ultra is offered in capacities
ranging from 200GB to 800GB, and delivers up to 80K/25K random
read/write IOPS and supports up to 4.4 PBW.
- CloudSpeed Ascend—This high-end
drive is designed for read-intensive application workloads such as
File Servers, Web-based Applications and Virtual Tape Libraries
(VTL). The CloudSpeed Ascend comes in capacities ranging from 240GB
to 960GB, achieves up to 1 full DWPD with a 5 year warranty1,
delivers up to 80K/15K IOPS and supports up to 1.8 PBW.
- CloudSpeed Eco—This entry-level
SSD is designed for read-intensive application workloads such as
Web Servers, Web 2.0 Content Repositories, Photo Sharing, Media
Streaming, Video on Demand (VOD) and Cloud Computing. The
CloudSpeed Eco comes in capacities from 240GB to 960GB, achieves up
to 1 full DWPD with a 3 year warranty43, delivers up to 450/400
MB/s** of sustained read/write performance and 80k/15k read/write
IOPS and supports up to 1.0PBW.
SanDisk’s proprietary Guardian Technology™ Platform, comprised
of FlashGuard™, DataGuard™ and EverGuard™ technologies, work in
concert to provide the data protection and endurance suitable for
demanding cloud and enterprise data center applications. The
CloudSpeed family of SSDs also offers customers the highest
reliability and industry-leading data integrity by employing a
combination of powerful error correction and detection technology,
full data path protection, thermal monitoring, and data fail
recovery of up to 1 NAND flash erase block. Additionally, SanDisk
manufactures its own NAND and has direct control over the design,
controller firmware, assembly, testing and supply chain, which
delivers innovative products, enterprise-grade quality control and
supply assurance.
The new CloudSpeed SSDs have begun sampling with select
customers and will be available through channel partners in mid-Q2
2014. For more information about SanDisk’s CloudSpeed SATA SSDs
product family, please visit
http://www.sandisk.com/enterprise/sata-ssd or visit booth #1367 on
the Interop show floor. Additional insights on the new CloudSpeed
SSDs can also be obtained by viewing this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCHGdWTkJPk or visiting the
following blog post:
http://itblog.sandisk.com/new-cloudspeed-lineup-eliminates-costly-one-size-fits-all-approach-to-storage-infrastructures.
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.
About Interop®
Interop® is the leading independent technology conference and
expo series designed to inform and inspire the world’s IT
community. Part of UBM Tech's family of global brands, Interop®
drives the adoption of technology, providing knowledge and insight
to help IT and corporate decision-makers achieve business success.
Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world
demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique
InteropNet program, Interop provides the forum for the most
powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer.
Interop Las Vegas is the flagship event held each spring, with
Interop New York held each fall, with annual international events
in Mumbai, London and Tokyo, all produced by UBM Tech and partners.
For more information about these events visit www.interop.com.
*1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user capacity less.
**Up to stated speed. Based on internal testing; performance may
vary depending upon drive capacity, host device, OS and
application.1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.
© 2014 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk is a
trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States
and other countries. CloudSpeed, CloudSpeed Eco, CloudSpeed Ascend,
CloudSpeed Ultra, CloudSpeed Extreme, Guardian Technology,
FlashGuard, DataGuard and EverGuard are trademarks of SanDisk
Enterprise IP LLC. Other brand names mentioned herein are for
identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their
holder(s).
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for markets, products and customers that are
based on our 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: the market demand for our
products may grow more slowly than our expectations or our products
may not be available in the capacities that we expect or perform 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 quarterly report on Form 10-Q
and our annual report on Form 10-K. We do not intend to update the
information contained in this press release.
1 Warranty/DWPD - The lesser of 5 years from the date of
manufacture of the product or the date on which the product’s
relevant endurance thresholds set forth in the product
specifications are reached.2 Source: Science Daily, “Big Data, for
better or worse: 90% of world's data generated over last two
years,” SINTEF, May 22, 2013.3 Warranty/DWPD - The lesser of 3
years from the date of manufacture of the product or the date on
which the product’s relevant endurance thresholds set forth in the
product specifications are reached.
Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available:
http://www.businesswire.com/multimedia/home/20140331005484/en/
SanDisk CorporationSiobhan Lyons,
408-801-2668siobhan.lyons@sandisk.com
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