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Posted March 28th, 2012
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Which Data Protection Features Would You Like to See in SSD SAN Storage Arrays?
CALL FOR YOUR OPINION
By Kaminario
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Kaminario is embarking on a research project to learn more about what data protection features customers want in their SSD SAN storage arrays. We will be sharing the results with you to continue conversations about SSD adoption in the enterprise data center.
We want your opinion too! Tell us in the blog comments. Also, feel free to publish your thoughts on your blog. Send us the link.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Please identify the data protection features you would most like to see in SSD SAN storage arrays.
If more data protection features become available in SSD SAN storage arrays, how will it impact your interest in acquiring one?
LET US KNOW.
Tags:application performance, data protection, Database Performance, Disk latency, High Availablity, IOPS, K2, Kaminario
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Posted February 28th, 2012
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Enterprise Reliability, Solid-State Speed
OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS WHITE PAPER LOOKS AT HOW SSD SOLID-STATE STORAGE REQUIRES THE RIGHT ARCHITECTURE FOR BOTH PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY
By Kaminario
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In the world of solid-state disks, speed is a given. SSD vendors have thrown their efforts into blistering velocities of hundreds of thousands of IOPS, feeding performance and, in many cases, rendering legacy storage arrays obsolete. But with any new idea, issues arise with implementation and proliferation. Wholesale changes in the enterprise are often fraught with trepidation and risk, and this hesitation is holding back the full deployment and possibly the full potential of SSDs. Jim Handy of Objective Analysis recently published a whitepaper pointing out that “the most widely adopted approach to using them [is] putting SSDs into a system designed around HDDs [which] ends up crippling the SSD’s performance while cheating the user of much that the SSDs have to offer”.
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Tags:data protection, DataProtect, flash storage, high availability, Jim Handy, K2, Kaminario, Objective Analysis, SNIA, Solid State Storage, SSD, Storage Strategies NOW
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Posted January 27th, 2012
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Kaminario Storage Experts Speak on Revolutionizing SSD Storage
RAISING THE BAR ON SSD STORAGE ARCHITECTURES
By Kaminario
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In three new videos posted on the company’s website, Kaminario storage experts CEO and cofounder Dani Golan, VP of Engineering Shachar Fienblit, and Senior Solutions Consultant Kevin Colton explain the structure, development, and implementation of the Kaminario K2’s all solid-state SAN storage.
According to Dani Golan, solid-state drive (SSD) adoption has been held back by antiquated architectures created for slower and in some cases obsolete storage technologies. He believes that to unlock the blistering speed of SSD, “you need a dramatically different architecture.” “Kaminario’s unique and multifaceted Scale-out Storage Performance Architecture™, known as SPEAR, is based on four elements,” explains Golan. “A modular, scale-out design; best-of-breed open components; freedom of choice of the right solid-state media (Flash or DRAM) for specific applications; and the highest availability.” This approach and design plant the Kaminario flag at the forefront of the SSD market and, according to Golan, “Allow us to lead the revolution for all solid-state SAN storage.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:application performance, Dani Golan, Database Performance, DRAM, Flash memory, Fusion-io, I/O bottlenecks, K2, Kaminario, SDD, Shachar Fienblit, solid-state, Storage Performance
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Posted January 23rd, 2012
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Join the Flash-SSD Revolution
WEBINAR SERIES WITH KEVIN COLTON, KAMINARIO SOLUTION CONSULTANT
By Kaminario
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Take the first step in the solid-state disk revolution and join us for an informational webinar. Find out about the new all solid-state SAN storage from Kaminario and the next generation storage architecture called SPEAR. Learn how you can turbo-charge your applications and significantly improve database performance.
Dates: January 25, February 8 or February 22
Time: All webinars take place at 1:00pm EST
Speaker: Kevin Colton, Kaminario Solution Consultant
Kevin is a storage industry expert and works with Fortune 500 enterprises to help them solve their application and database performance problems.
Click here to register for any of the upcoming Join the Flash SSD Revolution Webinars.
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Posted November 16th, 2011
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StorageMojo White Paper Assesses Flash and DRAM Solid-state SAN Storage on Database Performance
By Kaminario
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Written by Robin Harris of StorageMojo, an independent analyst firm focused on emerging IT technologies, “Database Performance and the Kaminario K2 All Solid-State SAN Storage” discusses how storage systems are not keeping up with today’s applications’ requirements for data intensive workloads and points out that “as numerous performance benchmarks and customer experience show, solid-state storage, especially that using a mix of media, is simply the fastest mass storage available.” Click here to read the entire report.
Tags:database, Database Performance, DRAM, DRAM SSD, Flash, Flash Solid-state storage, Flash SSD, Kaminario, MCL Flash, Robin Harris, SANs, Solid-state SANs, StorageMojo
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Posted October 2nd, 2011
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Accelerating Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Performance
By Kaminario
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Enterprises in every industry rely on fast access and processing of business critical information stored in their databases to stay competitive and grow their business. Companies around the world rely on Oracle databases for their most demanding and critical applications. This white paper talks about how Oracle RAC and Kaminario K2 all solid-state SAN storage solutions deliver clustered high performance, scalability and reliability. Download white paper now.
Tags:Database Performance, Kaminario K2, Oracle, Oracle Real-time Application Clusters, RAC
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Posted September 22nd, 2011
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Bringing Choice to the Enterprise SSD Market Kaminario K2 All Solid-State SAN
By Kaminario
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In his post, Bringing Choice to the Enterprise SSD Market Kaminario K2 All Solid-State SAN, George Crump, Storage Switzerland, he talks about how the Kaminario’s K2 has brought enterprise-class reliability to solid-state storage by designing a high performing, scalable and highly redundant architecture optimized for solid-state drive (SSD) SAN technology.
Tags:DRAM, Flash memory, George Crump, K2, Kaminario, SANs, Solid State Storage, solid-state drive, solid-state SAN storage, SSD, Storage Switzerland
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Posted September 21st, 2011
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Enterprise Strategy Group Puts K2-H to the Test
ESG TESTS CONFIRM KAMINARIO CLAIMS.
By Kaminario
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Coverage and feedback on the new Kaminario K2-H hybrid all solid-state SAN storage system has been fast and furious, and, from what we’ve seen, overwhelmingly positive. One of the items we’re particularly excited about is a recent Enterprise Strategy Group Lab report that validates what we’ve said about the K2-H (hybrid) performance, scalability and high availability.
Perhaps this quote from the report sums it up best: “With response times of under a millisecond and the ability to scale to more than 800,000 IOs per second, ESG Lab has confirmed that a K2 Hybrid solution that fits in a single rack is four to ten times faster than a traditional disk array consuming multiple racks full of power-hungry disk drives.”
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Tags:availability, database workloads, Enterprise Strategy Group, ESG Lab, green, I/O bottlenecks, IOPS, K2 Hybrid, K2-H, Kaminario, OLTP, redundancy, response time
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Posted July 1st, 2011
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Speeding up Storage with DRAM SSD from Kaminario
An Interview With Leumi Bank
By Kaminario
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This Forbes blog article talks about high performance computing and Speeding up Storage with DRAM SSD from Kaminario. The article includes an interview with Leumi Bank and its experience with Kaminario in accelerating its I/O intensive and latency sensitive banking applications.
Tags:banking applications, DRAM SSD, DRAM Storage Appliances, financial services, Forbes, high I/O, high performance computing, high performance storage, Kaminario, latency sensitive, Leumi Bank
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