Sandisk introduces a new generation of PCIe application accelerators

Sandisk Corporation announced the launch of a new generation of Fusion ioMemoryTMPCIe application accelerators to significantly improve performance while helping drive data center consolidation and achieve a lower total cost of ownership. The new Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerator, consisting of Sandi NAND flash and Virtual Storage Layer (VSL) data access acceleration software, offers up to four times better value for money while offering a 61% price reduction compared to the previous generation Fusion ioDrive 2.

John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager of Sandisk Enterprise Storage Solutions, said: "In the eight years since its introduction, Fusing -io's technology has fundamentally changed the industry's expectations of data center performance, and it continues to be the standard by which all other PCIe products are judged. "The combination of Fusion ioMemory's technical capabilities with Sandisk's vertically integrated NAND flash, and SATA and SAS SSD product families by our engineering experts will provide customers with an unmatched combination of flexibility, performance, scalability, quality and value in storage solutions. Help them meet their data center challenges."

According to a recent Gartner report, "Gartner is seeing a greater focus on PCIe technologies than the surge in demand for server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), in-memory computing applications, and real-time analytics." More than 7,000 customers have deployed more than 250,000 Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators, These include DataLogix, Rackspace's ObjectRocket, Pandora, Santa Monica City College, ServiceNow, TransUnion, and the University of St Michigan and the University of Victoria have made Fusion ioMemory application accelerators a mature and secure choice for building business-critical data centers.

The Fusion ioMemory portfolio is available in a variety of form factor sizes, from PCIe cards to Mezzanine storage for HP and Cisco blade servers. Each card is optimized for mixed-use or read-intensive workloads and can be used with SanDisk's new next-generation FlashSoft caching software to reduce I/O latency in VMware vSphere, Windows Server, and Linux environments. Help customers further accelerate enterprise applications.

Ravi Pendekanti, vice president of Server Solutions at Dell, said: "At Dell, we are committed to providing customers with solutions that deliver enterprise-class storage reliability and maintainability. By offering high-performance storage devices, such as Fusion ioMemory PCIe accelerators, in our PowerEdge portfolio, we are providing our customers with powerful solutions for the most demanding enterprise environments."

Accelerate the realization of customer application value

The Fusion ioMemory PCIe card solves one of the most challenging computing challenges in the data center: reducing the time required to extract data from traditional hard-disk based storage systems and optimizing the infrastructure. By simplifying data access and combining Microsoft SQL, Oracle, and MySQL databases with new database technologies such as Spark, Redis, and MongoDB, Fusion ioMemory cards improve performance and therefore customer satisfaction. For example, with Fusion ioMemory, customers can speed up search or e-commerce applications or reduce the time to run database reports by more than seven times .

Chris Lalonde, CEO and co-founder of ObjectRocket, said: "Every aspect of our stack has been adapted to make MongoDB faster, which is why we only use the fastest storage solutions like PCIe application accelerators in our platform. Regardless of instance size, everyone's application should get the best quality of service. We rely on the superior performance of the Fusion ioMemory PCIe application Accelerator to provide our customers with more processing per second and more consistent performance, while avoiding the typical issues of shared cloud environments."

By significantly reducing the amount of hardware, software, and other equipment needed to manage and run critical applications, customers can feel more than three times more integrated in their data centers.

Allan Leinwand, vice president and chief technology Officer of ServiceNow's Cloud Platform and Infrastructure division, said: "Our business relies on being able to deliver a single integrated IT workflow and management system around a single system of record. Sandisk and its Fusion-io unit are experts in solid-state storage and flash memory technology with a decades-long history of innovation. With their PCIe solution, we can help CIOs deliver business value through the ServiceNow Enterprise Cloud."