Posts Tagged ‘DRAM Storage’
Posted July 31st, 2012
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Architecture Matters More than Media Type
WHEN PUSHED TO LIMITS, SPEAR OFFERS NO PERFORMANCE ROADBLOCKS
By Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario
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I am pleased that our SPC-1 result announcement is generating online buzz. One of our primary intentions in going through the process was to test the SPEAR architecture’s scale-out capabilities. The SPC-1 put the K2 through a heavy workload over a 24-hour period. It came through with flying colors showing that Kaminario allows you to achieve high-end performance without suffering from bottlenecks of any type.
Some comments have focused on the fact that the K2 configuration included DRAM. So of course, the IOPS were going to be super fast. From our vantage point, the media type matters less than the architecture. We happened to certify the K2-D in this test result, but SPEAR will also enable high-level, scalable storage performance for Flash. That is the beauty of having a powerful and flexible architecture. It provides you with more choices and the ability to adapt as newer memory types emerge.
The transition to all SSD data centers is inevitable, but before it happens, organizations are going to demand that they can get the price/performance they need with the flexibility to scale efficiently. The benchmark we announced yesterday was a big step toward that goal regardless of media type.
If you would like to read another perspective, check out Storage Switzerland.
Tags:application performance, Database Performance, DRAM, DRAM Storage, DRAM-based SSD Appliances, Flash, Flash SSD, I/O bottlenecks, IOPS, K2, Kaminario, SPC-1, Storage Performance
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Posted July 30th, 2012
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Kaminario Sits Atop Storage Performance Mountain with Record-Setting SPC-1 Result
SOLID STATE SAN STORAGE PERFORMANCE GETTING MORE AFFORDABLE
By Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario
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Kaminario today announced independent audit results of the K2’s price performance conducted by the Storage Performance Council. In summary, we blew the doors off the SPC-1 Results, breaking the SPC-1 performance record as the first certified results exceeding one million IOPS, while also cutting the cost-per SPC-1 IOP by more than half. These results are the best in the history of the SPC-1. In addition, the K2 sustained its IOPS levels in a 24-hour SPC-1 test run. 
Sources:
Kaminario K2: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00118
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 6.2 with IBM Storwize® V7000 Disk Storage: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00113
HP P10000 3PAR V800 Storage System: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00109
Texas Memory Systems RamSan-630: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00105
Validation for SPEAR —As I see it, this is a big validation for our Scale-out Performance Storage Architecture (SPEAR). SPEAR distinguishes us from others in the industry with its unique ability to orchestrate mixed workloads over a distributed cluster of solid-state storage — all within an environment that supports advanced data protection features. Plus, as a software innovation, SPEAR offers substantial flexibility to adapt to evolving needs. All this leads to better application performance typically between 200 and 2,000 percent.
A testament to the robustness of the SPEAR design is that it sustained the 1.2M SPC-1 IOPS performance over 24 hours, maintaining performance well beyond the 8-hour period achieved by previous SPC competitive tests. This proves that the SPEAR design is a stable and consistent architecture, something that many of our customers who run continuous analytical processing applications can appreciate.
What It Means —High-end solid-state SAN storage performance is getting increasingly affordable. Clearly, solid-state price/performance ratios are getting better and better over similar HDD ratios. Kaminario’s SPC-1 results are not necessarily a total tipping point for SSD, but when you more than double the performance record and cut the cost-per-IOP record by more than half to $0.40 per SPC-1 IOP, it is a significant milestone.
Read the full SPC-1 report at: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1/#a00118
Kaminario’s continued focus on improving performance at lower cost within a full data protection environment is aimed at mainstream database and OLTP applications in the enterprise data center. Growing application sizes and complexity means that high-performance storage requirements are no longer for niche applications only.
Last January, we proclaimed 2012 the Year of the SSD. Given our outstanding, unsurpassed SPC-1 Result, I can’t help but think that the remainder of this year and all of next year will be even bigger for solid-state storage.
Tags:application performance, Database Performance, DRAM, DRAM Storage, DRAM-based SSD Appliances, I/O bottlenecks, IOPS, K2, Kaminario, latency, OLTP, SPC-1
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Posted May 2nd, 2012
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Kaminario’s Dani Golan Speaks at Tech Field Day
SOLID-STATE STORAGE IS THE NEXT BIG IT REVOLUTION
By Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario
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Last week, Kaminario CEO Dani Golan presented at Stephen Foskett’s Tech Field Day in San Jose. The event afforded us the opportunity to have conversations with several data storage bloggers including Howard Marks, Nigel Poulton, Chris Evans, Ray Lucchesi, Robin Harris and Hans DeLeenheer to name a few.
I was fortunate to be in the room, and the feedback I heard is gratifying. In fact, DeLeenheer published his thoughts about Kaminario in his blog and said we were worth watching.
In addition to providing a K2 product overview, Golan shared insights about the SSD market and where Kaminario fits. “Solid-state storage is the biggest storage revolution in the last 30 years…one of the biggest in IT since virtualization.”
One of the effects of this revolution is that definitions for high end, mid range and low end are being turned on their head. Improving price/performance and increasing application requirements make it tough to distinguish among tier 0, tier 1, tier 2 etc. I would argue “that our software stack is far superior to a $3 million high-end [HDD] array,” Golan said.
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Tags:Database Performance, Disk latency, DRAM, DRAM Storage, DRAM-based SSD Appliances, Flash, Flash SSD, Foskett, IOPS, Kaminario, Tech Field Day
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Posted April 2nd, 2012
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Reflections on a Launch
A MONTH HAS PASSED SINCE KAMINARIO INTRODUCED DATAPROTECT
By Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario
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Analyst and Media Reaction to the DataProtect Launch
It has been just over a month since Kaminario launched the DataProtect™ high availability and data protection capabilities for the Kaminario K2 product line. Analyst and media reaction has been very positive — highlighting the advantages and challenges that we have ahead.
After reviewing the DataProtect coverage, three messages stood out:
- High availability and data protection features such as DataProtect are needed for SSDs to be accepted as a HDD replacement in the data center;
- Kaminario is moving beyond the high-performance storage niche segment and aiming squarely at primary storage;
- DataProtect gives Kaminario some advantages but market competition is very aggressive.
Just to recap the coverage highlights, I’d like to share a selection of comments that capture much of the feedback we have observed.
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Tags:application performance, data protection, DataProtect, Disk latency, DRAM Storage, DRAM-based SSD Appliances, Flash, Flash SSD, High Availablity, IOPS, K2, Kaminario
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Posted March 12th, 2012
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HA and Data Protection Have Different Flavors
RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE IN THE REGISTER
By Kaminario
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Chris Mellor’s article about the TMS RamSan-820 made some comparisons between the Texas Memory Systems product and the Kaminario K2.
I just wanted to take it a step further by emphasizing two differences between Kaminario and TMS that enterprise customers should consider: non-disruptive operations and linear scalability.
Though the TMS RamSan-820 appliance as a unit has fully redundant hardware components, it lacks one important feature – hot replacements. When a failure happens (as it always does), the entire system becomes a single point of failure, exposing operations to data unavailability or worse data loss. Failed components have to be replaced ASAP.
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Tags:application performance, data protection, Database Performance, DRAM Storage, Flash, I/O bottlenecks, IOPS, Kaminario, TMS
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Posted February 26th, 2012
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Why Kaminario’s DataProtect is a Big Deal
TIME TO TALK MORE ABOUT MAINTAINING DATA RELIABILITY and SSD PEFRORMANCE
By Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario
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Kaminario today announced DataProtect™ which adds enterprise high-availability and data protection capabilities to our K2 line of all-solid-state SAN storage. The details are published on our Website including a highlight video, but I wanted to take a moment to share my thoughts about why the news is significant.
An architecture purpose-built for SSDs From its earliest days, Kaminario has believed that to get the most from solid-state media, you need a storage architecture purpose-built for SSDs. This notion applies to data reliability capabilities such as high availability (HA) and data protection as well as performance. When your applications are screamingly fast, your HA and data protection operations, including snapshots and replication, need to be able to keep up. The ideal SSD architecture should also be fully automated and support non-disruptive operations, so when there is a failure, your data is safe and accessible.
Performance is not enough While many organizations purchase SSDs for performance, more and more are saying that performance is not enough. You’ve got to be fast, but you have to be safe. Speed is absolutely important, but there is no question customers are making data reliability capabilities a growing purchase-decision factor. Concurrently, innovation around data reliability is accelerating faster than innovation around SSD performance, in my opinion. It continues today with DataProtect. Kaminario is raising the data reliability bar within all solid-state storage and now offers customers the most comprehensive HA and data protection software stack available.
Today’s announcement is an indication as to what you will see from us moving forward. The intelligence built into SPEAR allows us to continue to expand HA and data protection benefits to make our storage fast, safe, easy, and cost effective. It may not happen this year or next, but eventually all solid-state media will be the standard for primary storage in enterprise data centers. So that is where our compass is pointed.
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Tags:application performance, Database Performance, DataProtect, DRAM, DRAM Storage, DRAM-based SSD Appliances, Flash SSD, I/O bottlenecks, K2, Kaminario, SSD, SSD appliances, Storage Performance
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Posted December 13th, 2011
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More Discussion about MLC Flash and the Enterprise
EETIMES COLUMNIST SAYS INNOVATION IS MAKING MLC VIABLE
By Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario
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If you are considering migrating to flash SSD storage, you need to understand that there are two types of flash SSD. There are single-layer cell (SLC) NAND flash chips and multiple-layer cell (MLC) NAND flash chips. Essentially, MLC is less expensive and offers more capacity than SLC though SLC is generically faster. A knock on MLC is that the chips wear out quicker than SLC chips because additional work is required by the controller accessing the additional capacity.
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Tags:application performance, Disk latency, DRAM Storage, Kaminario, Kaminario K2, MLC Flash, solid-state SAN storage, SSD, SSD appliances, Storage, Storage Performance
Posted in SSD Architectures | No Comments »
Posted June 15th, 2011
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The Complete Package
TAKING THE COMPLEXITY AND COST OUT OF DEPLOYING HIGH-PERFORMANCE STORAGE
By Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario
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In a recent SearchStorage.com blog entitled Sizing up storage performance analysis options, Jeff Boles laments the lack of attention to storage performance in the rush to address capacity and the cloud. “And because of that neglect, many of us are finding we need better performance than we can get from today’s standard approaches,” says Boles. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:data protection, disaster recovery, DRAM Storage, integration, IOPS, Scalability, Storage Performance
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Posted May 26th, 2011
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SSD Architecture Matters
THE WRONG ARCHITECTURE CAN BE DISASTROUS
By Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario
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Performance is what you look for when you invest in SSD storage, but when it comes to mission critical applications, it’s important to remember that performance isn’t the whole story. As with any mission critical storage, your SSD architecture must deliver the enterprise class availability, scalability and manageability applications require or you’ll risk some unwelcome downtime, and unsatisfied end users. You also want your SSD solution to integrate smoothly and easily with the rest of your infrastructure. Or as we like to say at Kaminario, you want a solution that is fast, safe, and easy. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags:application performance, DRAM Storage, DRAM Storage Appliances, DRAM-based SSD Appliances, High availability storage, High Availablity, Scalability, SSD storage architectures, Storage Performance
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Posted May 5th, 2011
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New SSD Product Trial
TIRED OF WAITING FOR THE RIGHT SSD SOLUTION TO COME ALONG?
By Eyal Markovich
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Your wait is over. Kaminario is now accepting businesses to participate in our New SSD Product Trial. This new, blazingly fast SSD storage appliance improves application and database performance by up to 25x, while protecting data at a price/performance point never achieved before. The trial begins in June 2011 and a limited number of companies will be selected to participate.
What you will gain from joining in the Kaminario SSD Product Trial:
- An accurate application and database performance analysis to identify I/O bottlenecks and how to resolve them.
- A reliable and economical multi-terabyte storage solution, on site, for optimizing application and database performance that will extend the life of your storage infrastructure and lower your total cost of ownership.
If interested, please contact tsp_program@kaminario.com for additional information on the New SSD Product Trial.
Tags:application performance, Database Performance, DRAM Storage, Flash SSD, SSD appliances, SSD Products, SSD Solutions, Storage appliances, Storage Performance
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