Stordis European Distributor of LSI Nytro WarpDrive PCIe SSDs

Stordis GmbH distributes throughout Europe the LSI Nytro WarpDrive
Application Acceleration Card, LSI’s second-generation family of PCIe flash
adapters.

Stordis will also stock the LSI 6Gb/s
SAS Switch and other LSI SATA+SAS board-level products.

"Flash storage is becoming
increasingly vital for resellers to deliver competitive hardware platforms
within the enterprise and datacentres, as well as within key vertical markets
such as financial trading, the media and broadcast industry and more
traditional high performance computing," comments Stordis’ CEO Alexander
Jeffries. "As such, we needed to find the
best performing solution in the market. The PCIe interface is currently by far
the most effective way to deliver this lightning-fast storage technology
directly onto the motherboard of performance-hungry servers. Having looked in
detail at the available technologies, we are confident that LSI has the most
comprehensive and compelling product roadmap in the enterprise flash industry
segment."

Nytro WarpDrive cards range in capacity from 200GB to 3.2TB of MLC
or SLC flash memory; a single card can deliver the I/O
performance of hundreds of hard disk drives. This provides improved application
performance and response times, while reducing the necessary hard disk count
and consuming less space and power.

The PCIe host interface and small form factor make it more flexible and easier
to integrate into low profile, performance system chassis.

"The continuing growth of data and the
challenges this brings means that storage solutions need to deliver greater
intelligence, flexibility and performance to accelerate applications. The Nytro
WarpDrive card offers customers the next evolution of storage architectures for
market segments requiring high performance and low latency," comments
Thomas Pavel, EMEA channel sales director at LSI. "Stordis has a proven track record as a European distributor with real
knowledge and experience of high performance technology, and is well positioned
to help us reach customers in this sector."

Expanding the choice to work with LSI in more detail, Jeffries
explains: "LSI’s experience and standing
in the broader storage industry gives it a number of distinct advantages:

"The Nytro WarpDrive card
uses standard LSI SAS software drivers, which are common in the storage
industry segment. This ensures plug-and-play compatibility with tier one server
providers. Many of the competing products require large, additional software
drivers to be installed on the server. We found that these can sap significant
amounts of power from the main processor with a negative effect on overall
performance.

"In addition to its use of
proven, stable drivers, the LSI Nytro WarpDrive card uses LSI SandForce Flash
Storage Processors, which are used by nearly 50 of the industry’s leading
global suppliers of SSDs. The company has a clear advantage when implementing
its own industry standard technology within the Nytro WarpDrive card.

"Finally, the LSI SandForce
on-chip DuraWrite technology greatly reduces the flash memory’s ‘write
amplification’ by up to 10 times compared to competing solutions. This helps
the Nytro WarpDrive solution to last many times longer and sustain much higher
duty cycles than any competing solutions."