SPC-1 Benchmark of Kaminario All-SSD SAN K2

Kaminario, Inc. announced that its first Storage Performance Council SPC-1 Result showed the Kaminario K2 all solid-state SAN storage solution performs at 1,219,973.91 SPC-1 IOPS, setting a world record in sustained storage performance.

The K2 also set a world record for price performance, coming in at $.40 per SPC-1 IOPS.

The SPC-1 benchmark is a true appraisal of enterprise storage performance and measures total IOPS, price/performance (cost per IOPS) and TCO including three years of support.

The K2 SPC-1 Result reported an average of 10.01GB/s of data throughput, more than 60% of which were writes versus reads, while performing at 1.2M SPC-1 IOPS with low latency of 3.44ms at maximum load. The K2 also demonstrated the best SPC-1 price/performance of any tested SSD SAN on the market, proving that a performance SSD storage system can also be cost-effective.

In addition, the SPC-1 Result included a 24-hour duration for the Sustainability Test Run rather than the minimum required eight-hour duration. That test run reported an average of 1,215,892.58 SPC-1 IOPS with an average response time of 3.11ms and average data throughput of 9,978.31. This 24-hour Sustainability Test Run demonstrates the ability of the K2 to provide a consistent level of maximum performance over an extended period of time.

"The SPC congratulates Kaminario on an impressive first SPC-1 Result that achieves two major enterprise performance milestones," said Walter E. Baker, SPC administrator. "It is the first SPC-1 Result with performance over the 1 million SPC-1 IOPS threshold, which is significantly more difficult using the complex SPC-1 industry-standard workload versus using more simplistic, uniform workloads. In addition, the successful 24-hour Sustainability Test Run effectively answers any concerns about sustained maximum performance."

Kaminario is able to achieve these results because of the K2's Scale-out Performance Storage Architecture (SPEAR) and its ability to scale and maintain consistent performance over time. SPEAR's ability to intelligently balance mixed workloads over a distributed cluster of solid-state storage provides a stable infrastructure for sustaining performance and low latency. As a result, applications also see performance and responsiveness.
                                                                            
The K2 offers a scale-out architecture designed to deliver on the full potential of solid-state media. In addition, it features DataProtect - end-to-end, self-healing HA and fast, high-volume data protection, including N+1 redundancy, automatic failover, high-volume snapshots and hot-swappable components for nondisruptive operations.

"Today's traditional SAN storage architectures do not take advantage of the new solid-state media, having been designed and optimized over the past 20 years for rotating mechanical disks. Only a true scale-out architecture designed specifically for SSD media can deliver on the potential of that media and provide results like these," said Dani Golan, CEO of Kaminario. "The SPC-1 Result validates our storage architecture's scalability and capacity to be the highest performing yet most cost-effective storage solution that will help our customers remove the I/O bottlenecks that impact the productivity of their critical business applications."