SanDisk Unveils New FlashSoft® Software for Enhanced Application Performance in Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Windows Server
October 28 2015 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
Latest solution delivers unprecedented I/O
acceleration to virtual environments
MICROSOFT SQL PASS SUMMIT 2015 – SanDisk Corporation
(NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today
announced the next generation of FlashSoft software for Microsoft
Windows Server and Microsoft Hyper-V. This newest version of its
FlashSoft server-side, solid state caching software delivers
customers significant application performance acceleration gains,
up to three to five times1, especially in transactional and
virtualized environments which often experience high I/O
latency.
“This new offering exemplifies our dedication to transforming
the data center through flash technology,” said Ravi Swaminathan,
vice president and general manager, Systems and Software Solutions,
SanDisk. “We recognize that efficient access to data for key
applications is an essential requirement for our enterprise
customers. The new version of FlashSoft software now offers
customers even better application acceleration, regardless of the
environment or scale.”
FlashSoft software, now updated for Microsoft Windows Server,
Microsoft Hyper-V, and Linux operating systems, ensures that the
most frequently accessed data (hot data) is serviced by server-side
flash rather than slower back-end storage. This alleviates storage
performance bottlenecks and accelerates applications by reducing
response time, without mandating a large investment in hardware.
Organizations running large database-driven applications on shared
storage infrastructures typically experience high I/O latency as
the primary constraint on application performance. FlashSoft
software helps address the pain points of these enterprises by
dramatically improving availability of hot data.
Key benefits of the latest FlashSoft update include:
- Application Acceleration:
Leveraging FlashSoft, enterprises can accelerate application
performance by a 4.38 times increase in transactions per
second2.
- Policy-based Caching: the new
file-level policy-based caching technology improves caching
efficiency by allowing administrators to exclude specific files
from the cache. Testing conducted by SanDisk showed caching with
FlashSoft improved a SQL Server workload’s performance by 2.8 times
in a Windows Server Hyper-V environment, and that performance gain
was increased to 5.9x when the file-exclusion feature was used to
cache only the most critical data1.
- SAN Relief and Workload Density:
FlashSoft also reduces traffic on storage networks and storage
systems (“SAN relief”), which can prolong the useful life of
current storage investments. Moreover, it also enables more
workloads on accelerated hosts (increased workload density per host
server), which can greatly reduce software license costs.
FlashSoft is compatible with any enterprise flash device,
including PCIe, NVMe, SAS or SATA interfaces from all vendors. The
software runs in any standard x86-based server, working efficiently
with both storage area network (SAN) and Direct Attached Storage
(DAS) configurations.
1Based on internal testing. As measured using an OLTP benchmark
suite with MS-SQL Server. Complete test report
available.2Application performance testing conducted by SanDisk
used a HammerDB workload on Microsoft SQL Server to demonstrate a
4.4 times increase in transactions per second.
SanDisk at SQL PASS Summit 2015
SanDisk is a Gold sponsor of SQL PASS Summit 2015, 27-30 October
in Seattle. Visit SanDisk’s booth #222 to learn how SanDisk’s
enterprise flash products deliver application acceleration and make
businesses more efficient. Join SanDisk and SIOS for the “PASS The
Bacon” panel on Friday, October 30th at 6:45am.
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 27 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 smartphones, 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 and
FlashSoft are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the
United States and other countries. Other brand names mentioned
herein are for identification purposes only and may be the
trademarks of their holder(s).
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