OCZ Collaborates With Mellanox

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. and Mellanox
Technologies, Inc. have collaborated together to optimize SQL Server applications
in a Microsoft Always-On deployment that delivers flash I/O storage performance
and HA of data.

These capabilities will be presented June 3rd through June 6th, in the Mellanox
booth at the Microsoft TechEd North America 2013 Conference, New Orleans Morial
Convention Center.

The combination of the Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN 4GbE NIC with OCZ’s ZD-XL SQL Accelerator replicates database volumes in a SQL
Server environment. The combined solutions deliver Ethernet connectivity, cache and flash volume
distribution of PCIe flash resources as well as enabling HA services of SQL
Server installations.

The SQL Server environment containing
two servers (each using a ZD-XL SQL Accelerator and ConnectX-3 EN NIC) are
connected using SQL Server Always-On. HA of this environment is maintained by
replicating the ZD-XL SQL Accelerator data using the Mellanox NIC to the
secondary server.

"This industry-first solution
assures that performance will be maintained at accelerated levels through ZD-XL
SQL Accelerator flash performance with our 40GbE NIC interconnection handling
the replication of even the highest flash induced SQL Server loads,"
said Motti Beck, director of enterprise market development, Mellanox. "We are very pleased
to jointly develop this capability with OCZ enabling SQL Server operations to
continue from the point when a server fails, providing flash speed to end-users
as if no problem had occurred."

"We are equally excited to work with
Mellanox on providing high bandwidth, HA solutions, and with the ConnectX-3 EN
NIC providing four times better Ethernet connectivity for data replication, is
an ideal match for our ZD-XL SQL Accelerator in support of mission-critical SQL
Server applications," said Dr. Allon Cohen, VP of software and solutions, OCZ. "The ability to
provide this innovative acceleration and replication between flash resources
enables SQL Server environments to function at the speed of flash while
retaining complete HA."

The ConnectX-3 EN 40/56GbE NIC delivers high-bandwidth and
Ethernet connectivity for performance-driven server and
storage applications in enterprise data centers, HPC and embedded environments.
Its low power and application acceleration for converged I/O infrastructures
eliminate the need for multiple Ethernet connections to the server while
maximizing server and storage performance throughput. This results in reduced
operating costs and network complexity.

OCZ’s ZD- XL SQL Accelerator is a plug-and-play flash acceleration solution
optimized for SQL Server deployments. It represents the convergence of
enterprise hardware and software as one tightly integrated, optimized solution
ensuring that appropriate and readily available data is on SSD flash when SQL
Server needs it. Plugging into existing or new SQL Server installations, ZD-XL
SQL Accelerator provides on-host application-optimized flash caching for SAN or
DAS DB volumes enabling data to be accessed with the high I/O
performance.