OS Nexus Qualified Stec PCIe Accelerator

STEC,
Inc.  and OS Nexus Inc. announced that the STEC s1120 PCIe Accelerator
has been qualified on the OS Nexus storage platform.

The qualification provides IT professionals
with the assurance they can boost data center and cloud applications through
the combination of PCIe-based s1120 SSD and the OS Nexus QuantaStor storage
system.

The s1120 PCIe Accelerator – available
with up to 2TB of capacity and in a version with unlimited writes – enables
multiple SSDs to be deployed on a single server and features data-protection
functions such as PowerSafe technology that helps to ensure data is not lost in
the event of power failure.

It is optimized for accelerating applications such
as data analytics, statistical analysis and modeling, and video imaging,
editing and sharing. QuantaStor is a unified storage-appliance platform
designed as an alternative to expensive and complex storage systems.

The
platform enables companies to deploy commodity servers as enterprise-grade
storage appliances and provides open-storage capabilities, including
traditional block and file protocols, as well as big data databases such as
Hadoop, OpenStack SWIFT and scale-out storage with Gluster.

"We
were very impressed with the performance numbers from our validation testing of
the STEC s1120 PCIe Accelerator," said Steven Umbehocker, CEO, OS
Nexus. "The s1120 exceeded our
expectations and demonstrates the tremendous enterprise-systems potential of
two leading storage solutions – STEC’s SSD technology and our QuantaStor
software."

"STEC
continues to engage with innovative companies, such as OS Nexus, to provide
solid-state storage solutions that deliver the performance and data reliability
demanded by today’s enterprise systems," said Zack Mihalis, VP of
product marketing and management, STEC. "The validated compatibility of the s1120 SSD and QuantaStor software
give system integrators and other IT professionals the confidence that their
enterprise-storage systems can be developed with the performance, reliability,
ease of use, and cost-efficiency STEC and OS Nexus customers expect."