Updated Server-Side Caching Software for
Windows, Linux and VMware Environments to be Coupled with SanDisk
PCIe, SATA and SAS Hardware Devices
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today announced immediate availability of the
newest version of its FlashSoft® server-side, solid state caching
software, which provides several notable performance, usability and
compatibility improvements for Windows®, Linux® and VMware®
environments. In making today’s announcement, SanDisk also unveiled
that its FlashSoft caching software will be available in new
bundled offerings that package the software with SanDisk’s array of
enterprise flash hardware solutions, including the Fusion ioMemory™
PCIe application accelerators, the Optimus Ascend™ SAS solid-state
drive (SSD), and the CloudSpeed Ascend™ SATA SSD. These new
offerings provide an easy-to-implement solution that empowers
customers to select the flash storage capacity and performance that
best meet their data center needs.
“We have built our enterprise flash business to offer the
broadest range of storage acceleration solutions to address
customers’ changing needs,” said Ravi Swaminathan, vice president
and general manager, Systems and Software Solutions, SanDisk. “The
new hardware-software bundles offer the best of both our hardware
and software portfolios in a single solution. We are excited to be
able to offer customers a complete solution that provides the
performance and cost benefits of flash technology, while at the
same time making it easier for our channel partners to support
their customers.”
A recent Gartner report indicates that “input/output (I/O)
optimization software alleviates the "I/O blender" problem that
often plagues dense virtual machine environments and notes that
these solutions can be an inexpensive and non-disruptive way to
boost application performance.”1 FlashSoft software does that and
more. It reduces I/O latency in VMware vSphere®, Windows Server®
and Linux environments through the use of server-side, flash-based
storage caching, which helps increase application performance in
both virtualized and non-virtualized computing environments. By
utilizing server-attached flash storage as an intermediate cache
for an application’s most frequently accessed data, or “hot data,”
FlashSoft software enables that data to be read and written more
efficiently. The software assigns hot data to the solid-state
cache, increasing performance while reducing storage area network
(SAN) overhead. This prolongs the useful life of current server and
storage systems and delivers greater computing power, which
increases customers’ return on investment (ROI), while reducing the
total cost of ownership (TCO) for their data center.
FlashSoft deployments have shown that server-side solid-state
caching provides substantial performance benefits to enterprise
applications, such as online transaction processing (OLTP)
workloads, online analytical processing (OLAP) applications and
high performance computing (HPC). Most typical line-of-business
applications—such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint and
applications based on databases, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL
Server, and Oracle—will also see significant performance increases
through the use of the FlashSoft software. Performance tests
conducted by SanDisk using an industry-standard benchmark, showed
that the new version of FlashSoft software increases application
performance by over 14X compared to a baseline storage array
comprised of HDDs. Storage latency was also significantly
decreased, with application response times improving by more than
22X.2
The latest version of FlashSoft software includes a number of
enhancements that help improve performance, compatibility and
usability for Windows, VMware and Linux environments,
including:
- Windows Server:
- Improved support for Microsoft Hyper-V
with Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV) to provide caching for Hyper-V
hosts sharing storage volumes.
- Native support for hard disk drive and
SSDs formatted with 4K sector size as well as 512K.
- VMware vSphere:
- Certification by VMware as a Partner
Verified & Supported Product (PVSP), providing customers with
peace of mind that their software investment will have continued
support and compatibility with VMware vSphere as new patches and
updates are released.
- Linux:
- Broad support for Red Hat® Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) & SUSE kernels.
- Native support for HDDs and SSDs
formatted with 4K sector size as well as 512K.
“SanDisk is an expert in solid-state storage and flash
technology with a decades-long history of delivering innovation in
this market,” said Al Bibergall, senior vice president sales,
Sayers Technologies. “We’re excited to partner with SanDisk to
deliver solid-state server-side caching that enables all the
benefits of flash in an easy to acquire, easy to support and easy
to adopt package.”
Packaging Software & Hardware Together to Increase
Customer Value
SanDisk’s new Cache Device Bundles combine its caching software
with its PCIe application accelerators and SAS and SATA SSDs to
give customers the broadest range of server-side, solid state
caching options from a single vendor. The new bundles deliver the
benefits of flash hardware and caching software in a single
solution that is easy to evaluate, deploy and support, regardless
of storage operating systems or architectures. The new offerings
include:
Windows Server Offerings:
- FlashSoft for Windows with Fusion
ioMemory PCIe application accelerators
- FlashSoft for Windows with Optimus
Ascend SAS SSDs for stand-alone Windows Servers or Hyper-V
implementations
- FlashSoft for Windows with CloudSpeed
Ascend SATA SSDs
VMware vSphere Offerings:
- FlashSoft for VMware vSphere with
Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators
- FlashSoft for VMware vSphere with
Optimus 2 Ascend SAS SSDs
- FlashSoft for VMware vSphere with
CloudSpeed Ascend SATA SSDs
Linux Offerings:
- FlashSoft for Linux with Fusion
ioMemory PCIe application accelerators
- FlashSoft for Linux with Optimus Ascend
SAS SSDs
- FlashSoft for Linux with CloudSpeed
Ascend SATA SSDs
The new FlashSoft software and SanDisk Cache Device Bundles are
available for purchase now from SanDisk and its enterprise channel
partners. For more information about the new FlashSoft software and
SanDisk’s Cache Device Bundles visit
http://bigdataflash.sandisk.com/flashsoft or the SanDisk IT
Blog.
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.
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trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States
and other countries. Flashsoft, CloudSpeed Ascend, Optimus Ascend,
Fusion ioMemory and others are trademarks of SanDisk Enterprise IP
LLC. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification
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holder(s).
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for new product offerings, product
availability, capabilities, performance, usability and
compatibility and partnering relationships 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: the product offerings described in
this news release may not be available when we expect, with the
capabilities, usability or compatibility that we expect or perform
as expected, our partnering relationships may not continue as we
expect 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.
1 Gartner, “Technology Overview for IO Optimization Software,”
March 18, 2015.
2 Based on internal testing conducted by SanDisk using the
FIO.exe benchmark. Full configuration details and measured results
are on record.
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