Storagedata SAN System Reach 500,000 IO/s

STEC, Inc. and Storagedata BV, supplier of enterprise-storage systems, announced that STEC’s ZeusIOPS SAS SSDs combined with Storagedata’s Storage Management OS, enable the SAN 3800 and SAN 5000 to deliver over 500,000IOPS and the reliability required by cost-efficient SAN applications.

The new SAN 3800 and SAN 5000 featuring the STEC SAS SSDs wre introduced and demonstrated at Storage Expo, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

"Europe represents significant market potential for cost-optimized SAN solutions targeting mid-size companies and enterprises," said Robert Carstensen, CEO, Storagedata. "Because of this potential, we, along with resellers of Storagedata systems, see a huge value in our close collaboration with partners such as STEC and in integrating STEC’s leading solid-state-storage solutions into our next-generation SANs. We selected STEC SSDs for their capability to offer consistent and predictable performance, extended endurance and high reliability."

"By combining STEC SSD technology with Storagedata’s Storage Management OS, mid-size companies benefit from an extremely powerful storage appliance at an affordable price point," said Davide Villa, VP of EMEA sales at STEC. "SSDs are often perceived as an expensive storage technology that can be justified only in large enterprise systems. These new Storagedata SANs demonstrate that by combining high-performance SSDs with low-cost rotating media and proper management software, SSDs can offer a dramatic cost reduction for a wide range of companies in need of a powerful storage system."

Scalability, Functionality, Energy Efficiency
through STEC SSDs
The new Storagedata SANs provide performance storage with scalability and functionality with low energy consumption. The systems are available with iSCSI and FC controllers, ranging from 6 up to 192 drives. Through Storagedata’s Active controllers with hardware RAID functionality, the SANs offer performance to process amounts of random access data.

ZeusIOPS SSDs are designed to optimize storage performance in servers and enterprise storage systems, enabling superior IOPS and minimizing bottlenecks associated with traditional HDDs. One ZeusIOPS drive can replace hundreds of hard drives and reduce the need for additional DRAM, increasing system utilization and reducing TCO. It can fit into existing enterprise servers. Because there are no drivers required, each SSD appears to any system or RAID controller as a standard drive that can be managed by existing storage management tools, delivering plug-and-play elegance.