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and indeed, kaminario founder and chief executive dani golan say that, over time, boxes like kaminario’s will become the default .
kaminario k2 boasts a unique self healing architecture. it’s straightforward – kaminario either delivers 99. 999% uptime or provides zero - cost support extensions .
kaminario launched an authorized support partner (asp) program that allows select kaminario partners to offer end - to - end support on kaminario solutions. this program is particularly important to partners offering fully managed storage services to their end customers .
kaminario is seeing significant growth in business from partners offering managed private cloud services .
kaminario head of global brand and buzz marketing, parna sarkar, said :
shachar has left kaminario to join a stealth mode startup. but will continue to support the kaminario team... . shachar was instrumental in setting kaminario' s early vision and bringing the kaminario k2 platform to market. over the years we’ve built out a strong engineering team who will continue to aggressively advance our innovation agenda .
the kaminario accelerate partner programme is available in north america now and will expand to emea in the second quarter. there' s information on the kaminario scheme here. ®
but while those investors are eager to back kaminario, analysts at 451 research and gartner have questioned whether kaminario has fallen behind its rivals in gaining attention and market share .
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our understanding is that kaminario doesn’t see itself extending visionos to support file and block access protocols and storage .
latest kaminario k2 all - flash array adds enterprise features such as thin provisioning, inline deduplication / compression .
kaminario needs to get a clear message through five walls of massive competitive marketing fog to reach potential customers. ®
kaminario, the all - flash storage vendor based near boston, announced an oversubscribed $ 75 million round today .
kaminario, needing to enlarge its sales, is launching its first channel programme to increase its market points of presence .
the kaminario assured capacity program offers a simple way to think about purchasing flash capacity. you get what you buy .
“we recently appointed long - time kaminario executive, ron davidi, vp of sales and business development for kaminario international. we continue to sell in emea with strong commitment to 100 per cent channel model in the region, ” the ceo added .
fienblit’s departure leaves kaminario ceo dani golan with a cto hole to fill. the company’s leadership webpage still lists fienblit as cto by the way. tom o’neill is kaminario’s international cto and he looks like the instant switch into the top cto role .
ritu jyoti, chief product officer for kaminario, said the accelerate channel program will give kaminario' s partners access to discounts, product rebates and market development funds now that kaminario has been able to raise a total of $ 143 million in funding. the goal, she said, is to provide partners with the tools they need to sell, without creating a lot of overhead in terms of channel processes. to help manage the channel, kaminario recently appointed dror friedman as director of channel sales .
jyoti said kaminario' s k2 can scale capacity and performance to a greater degree than it does now, and the company can undertake further qualifications if it chooses. but, she said kaminario has not seen customer demand for higher capacity and performance .
kaminario raised $ 68m at the end of last year and here we are with the first fruits of that fund - raising .
shachar fienblit has flagged up his kaminario cto slot departure on his linked webpage. his kaminario history is vp engineering from april 2009 to the end of 2014, and cto from the start of 2015 to january this year, a neat two - year stint .
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this summer i made the decision to leave my previous employer and join another vendor in the all flash array space – a company called kaminario. a lot of people have been in touch to ask me about this, so i thought i’d answer the question here… why kaminario ?
rest assured that the k2 storage platform will perform as promised – even across mixed workloads – otherwise kaminario provides added compute at no cost .
“kaminario helps atlantix global deliver agility and simplicity to customers who are managing rapidly changing business requirements, ” said brian glahn, chief executive officer, atlantix global. “kaminario k2 sets the bar for mixed workloads that include the most demanding performance, reliability and scale storage requirements. ”
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it’s an exciting time to be in data storage, according to kaminario founder and ceo dani golan. flash memory is revolutionizing the industry, creating billion - dollar opportunities for companies like kaminario, a newton, ma - based company that builds all - solid - state data storage systems for enterprise customers. he also says it’s an exciting time to be at kaminario, which just added another $ 15 million to the $ 53 million series e round the company raised in december. the recent influx of cash brings the total raised by kaminario to $ 143 million—making it one of the better - funded tech companies in the boston area .
kaminario, which currently has 70 partners in the united states, reported that bookings for the fourth quarter of 2014 grew 100 percent over the previous quarter. jyoti said that the company is looking to add about 30 more partners in 2015, which—despite all the entrenched competition in the storage space—kaminario expects to be able to easily recruit .
two exec moves have flashed up in the solid state world. micron ceo mark durcan told analysts he was going to stop being ceo and kaminario’s cto has quit .
kaminario' s k2 offers a seven - year endurance guarantee on its flash drives - - a guarantee that is written into the warranty contract, according to jyoti .
based in newton, mass. , kaminario will employ 125 people by year’s end, golan said. that figure should double by the end of 2015, he said .
have suggested that the days of custom hardware are numbered. recent solid - state storage system announcements from kaminario and astute networks demonstrate that this argument is far from over .
golan told us bradley resigned for “personal reasons”, and claimed kaminario “continue to aggressively grow in emea”. the only other physical office in the region is based in france .
kaminario’s k2 all flash array is based on its spear architecture. essentially, what kaminario has created is a high - performance, scalable framework for taking memory and presenting it as enterprise - class storage – with all the resilience, functionality and performance you would expect. when the company was first founded this memory was just that: dram. but since nand flash became economically viable, kaminario has been using flash – and the architecture is agile enough to adopt whichever technology makes the most sense in the future .
for today the message is simple: kaminario is making the all flash data centre a reality. . and i want to be here to help customers make that happen .
there’s considerable debate in the industry about which approach is better, or even if the distinction is becoming meaningless, but for kaminario the flexibility is its key point of differentiation .
the entry - level configuration seems to cost around $ 200, 000. kaminario is coy about its pricing, which is based on a $ per gb and iops calculation .
kaminario, a newton, mass. - based enterprise flash storage company, today took the wraps off the fifth - generation k2 (k2 v5) ssd - based arrays .
kaminario, a startup that sells all - flash storage hardware for companies’ data centers, can now put more muscle into its marketing, thanks to a new $ 53 million round .
founded in 2008, kaminario goes up against other venture - backed startups like pure storage as well as giants of enterprise storage like emc. kaminario will keep introducing features for its hardware with the fresh money, but the funding will also help to cover the costs of trying to out - market, out - sell, and out - support other storage providers .
as evidence, kaminario points to a report from 451 research that estimates the all - flash array market will grow from $ 580 million to $ 3. 4 billion by 2018 .
kaminario' s has the fastest streaming data flash box on the block, but not the most cost - efficient. it is rated only eighth in the price / performance list :
kaminario is the second flash storage array vendor this month to unveil enterprise - level software capabilities to flash storage, following last week' s introduction of pure storage' s new flasharray .
kaminario criticises flash - based alternatives to k2, saying that useful life is less than dram and block erase - write - cycles reduce performance, as do other write - based processes .
kaminario briefed the press at a techlive event in june, saying that the gen 6 controllers are xpoint - ready, nvdimm - ready, and built for coming nvme over fabric technology .
kaminario is announcing the release of their k2 all - flash storage array that is now in its fourth generation and provides top - level performance to medium - sized businesses. the kaminario k2 v4 is based on spear (scale - out performance storage architecture), which means that not only do the systems benefit from scaling - up capacities, but also enhanced compute power. this architecture enables enterprises to increase their capacity without decreasing their iops and bandwith and without raising their systems' latency. this level of performance makes the kaminario k2 v4 perfect for just about any workload or application .
all - flash storage array maker kaminario in may gave its flash arrays an enterprise edge with new software for enterprise data services, as well as both scale - up and scale - out architectures .
kaminario has now started itself an accelerate partner programme with the usual goodies like product discounts, volume rebates, marketing development funds, dedicated marketing resources, joint account planning, and training and certification programmes .
kaminario has left uk sales in the hands of an sales engineer and a chief technology officer following the redundancy of more than half of the local staff, a number of sources have told the register .
kaminario is locked in a fierce battle with a raft of other all - flash array newcomers, as well as every major storage vendor that now has its own all - flash arrays. kaminario contends that it’s now only a matter of time before all - flash arrays replace magnetic disk drives as the main device used to provide primary storage. the degree to which that will actually happen remains to be seen .
discounting the vion monster, the k2 would appear to have both an iops edge and a throughput advantage. kaminario makes a big thing of the k2 being more reliable than tms or other suppliers' products but how many ramsan' s have failed in operation? kaminario also says its product is an appliance and can be installed and running in a day with no changes needed to applications or the overall environment. ®
“we are seeing phenomenal growth in channel - driven business as our partners experience kaminario’s unique value for on - demand business and the chance to differentiate their own offerings within this high growth segment, ” said itay shoshani, chief revenue officer, kaminario. “a channel - only go - to - market strategy is central to our plans for a sustainable, growth - oriented company, with a clear path to profitability. ”
as an example of this agility, kaminario was the first afa vendor to adopt 3d nand technology and the first to adopt 3d tlc. this obviously allows a major competitive advantage when it comes to providing the most cost - efficient all flash array. but what really drew me to kaminario was their decision to allow customers to integrate future hardware (such as new types of flash) into their existing arrays rather than making them migrate to a new product as is typical in the industry. by protecting customers’ investments, kaminario is taking some of the risk out of moving to an afa solution. it calls this programme the perpetual array .
the c6268 features quickassist technology (qat) and kaminario uses this in offloading inline compression from its xeon sp processors to a dedicated compression engine. the array’s visionos also supports selectable deduplication; this is global dedupe with distributed metadata .
golan views the issue differently. he thinks kaminario’s competitors are taking different design approaches and targeting different market segments. golan thinks kaminario has found its niche by offering a product that both scales up—meaning more storage capacity can be added relatively cheaply—and scales out, which is a more expensive option that adds capacity along with more processing power, speed, and performance. in golan’s view, the systems other companies have designed are only able to do one or the other .
with its ispc - 1 benchmark - topping k2 all - flash array, kaminario is facing steadily increasing competition selling to enterprises as emc (xtremio), pure storage, solidfire and ibm (flashsystem) chip away at its market .
while golan said the new investment allows kaminario to be aggressive, he wants it to stay focused on growth. long - term issues like preparing for an exit in the form of an ipo aren’t at the forefront of his mind .
kaminario continues to expand its business with saas and on - demand application providers with more than 60 percent of its business coming from this category – including healthtech, fintech, ecommerce and enterprise applications - as - a - service companies .
the top enterprise flash array systems on the market include hpe 3par, tintri vmstore, netapp all flash fas, pure storage, emc vnx and kaminario k2, according to online reviews by enterprise users in the it central station community .
as the chart shows, kaminario is way out on a performance limb and it is extremely unlikely that any disk drive array could catch it. the road to spc - 2 performance is paved with solid state storage from now on. ®
a source said: “kaminario has good technology but that whole solid state market is very congested, with upstarts and big vendors wanting a piece of that all - flash action. it has vc money and expectations for what would happen. ”
the new software suite with the kaminario k2 v5 increases storage efficiency with such capabilities as global selective in - line de - duplication, variable block de - duplication, in - line data compression, thin provisioning and snapshot - based replication .
new investors in kaminario include silicon valley bank’s venture capital arm, lazarus hedge fund, and an unnamed public company. they joined existing investors sequoia capital, pitango, globespan, tenaya, and mitsui, which all reinvested in the recent round .
kaminario today announced the release of its fifth - generation k2 primary storage array, which uses the company’s software - defined scalable performance storage architecture (spear) to leverage commodity hardware for all - flash deployments. according to kaminario, k2 v5 solutions average two dollars per gigabyte of usable capacity, perhaps the lowest cost per gb in the afa arena. k2 v5 offers scale - up and scale - out functionality alongside selective global inline deduplication and a range of other mid - market enterprise functionality .
as amd and intel have boosted the performance of x86 processors, some industry observers have suggested that the days of custom hardware are numbered. recent solid - state storage system announcements from kaminario and astute networks demonstrate that this argument is far from over .
as a provider of an all - flash array that is sold primarily through the channel, kaminario has made a lot of headway in the crowded storage field. now the company is ratcheting up those efforts with the launch of its first formal channel program .
so to answer the question at the start of this post, i have joined kaminario because i believe they are ideally placed, architecturally and commercially, to lead the adoption of this new phase of flash storage – a technology that i fundamentally believe in .
more than 200 channel partners globally have added kaminario k2 to their offerings to increase profitability and gain direct access to the all - flash market estimated to be growing over 30 percent year - over - year, reaching more than $ 10 billion by 2020 .
she said interest was building early this year for the new v5 product, and some customers purchased k2 v5 even before its release. kaminario - supplied numbers claim the price per gb for the least expensive configuration dropped from $ 8. 69 for v4 to $ 2. 55 for v5 with deduplication and compression factored in. also with v5, the kaminario k2 product shifted from more expensive 1. 6 tb enterprise multilevel cell (emlc) ssds to less expensive 800 gb mlc drives, according to the company .
there are more than 70 existing kaminario channel partners but it needs to broaden its channel and
scale to partners of every size, industry and geography .
it wants to support a broader range of partners and use cases, and so grow its business .
that price point opens up the category of customers that kaminario identifies as midrange and large enterprises that make $ 100 million to $ 5 billion per year. golan said the company is going after that market hard, and he believes the others are looking elsewhere .
reads are executed in parallel from all data nodes which hold the data set referred to. the k2 appliance has full redundancy for all components, with kaminario pointing out that tms ramsan products do have a single point of failure. (see discussion here. )
kaminario has taken the spc - 2 streaming storage benchmark, shook it hard, wrung it out, and left everyone else for dust with its k2 all - flash array, with a result nearly twice as fast as the previously top - ranked oracle zfs array .
the accelerate partner program enables businesses globally to adopt, implement and manage kaminario’s products with trusted technology advisors. kaminario is committed to making accelerate the most profitable partner program in the storage industry with a combination of discounts, rebates and incentives that allow resellers to earn the highest overall margins industry - wide. partners have access to a variety of additional benefits including technical and market training, dedicated marketing resources and discounts on demo systems. the program also includes consulting to help technology resellers craft business strategies around the all - flash datacenter .
called k - blocks, kaminario' s arrays are available in single, dual or quad configurations. a 1 k - block deployment consists of a 4u array and 2u expansion module. storage network connectivity options include 8 gb per second fibre channel and 10 gbe isci .
last year, kaminario announced a performance consistency guarantee promising no more than 25% performance degradation during a system failure. the company claimed that if the degradation failed to meet the guarantee, it would give customers the new hardware necessary to allow the product to do so .
“intervision delivers solutions for software - as - a - service companies that are building their own cloud infrastructures, ” said jamie lee, vice president of sales, intervision. “kaminario’s all - flash platform uniquely delivers the scalability, agility and performance demanded by these customers. ”
a start - up called kaminario has a new spin on in - memory datasets with its k2 dram - based grid of storage nodes having no single point of failure, unlike texas memory systems, it says, and being cheaper than flash - based million - iops products .
kaminario' s all - flash arrays stand out for their performance claims, with maximum read and write iops in excess of 1 million and double - digit read throughput. kaminario - supplied figures for k2 v4 (maximum read iops of 4 million and maximum read throughput of 64 gb / s) were actually greater than the numbers provided for k2 v5 (maximum read iops of 2 million and maximum read throughput of 25. 6 gb / s) because the company qualified v4 for higher performance than it has done so far for v5, jyoti said .
it now also offers scale - up architecture, in which an individual node' s flash storage capacity can be increased with the addition of extra ssds. the kaminario k2 originally was available only with scale - out capability, which added performance as well as capacity with additional nodes .
today kaminario is a 100 - employee company backed with $ 75 million in funding over four rounds, mostly from sequoia capital. golan’s plan is to maneuver kaminario into the wide - open mid - market space that exists in the storage industry. “for the first time in three decades in the storage business, there are no mid - cap companies – only very large firms and start - ups. customers like having more choices and a more personal relationship, ” says golan, who hopes to grow the business into a mid - sized alternative over the next few years .
and it’s exciting for another reason: kaminario is one of a number of well - financed startups competing with global giants like emc and ibm for a piece of the action as companies around the world ditch their old hard - disk drive technology, build new data centers, and create private clouds .
the uk operation, as it is, will be staffed by tom o’neill, cto and chris buckel, director of sales engineering for emea and apac, “neither of whom [ were on the ] commercial side, so how will the sales void be filled? ” a person in kaminario’s channel questioned .
“the big guys are usually focusing on global 1000 companies, so because we’re focusing on midrange enterprises, the market is not that crowded, actually, ” golan said. by kaminario’s measure, about 50 percent of the money spent buying new solid - state storage systems will come from that tier of companies .
kaminario claims it offers ultra high performance. tms has a ramsan - 630 offering 4gb / sec throughput, 10tb of capacity and 500, 000 sustained iops from its slc flash. its ramsan - 440 has up to 512gb of dram, up to 660, 000 iops and 4. 5gb / sec throughput .
in addition to this, kaminario has a unique ability to offer both scale out and scale up architecture (scalability is something i will discuss further in my storage for dbas series soon) and to deliver workload agnostic performance … all technical features that deliver real business value. but those are for discussion another day .
ritu jyoti, chief product officer at the newton, massachusetts - headquartered company, said kaminario k2 version 5 (v5) enhanced the product' s enterprise readiness with the addition of features such as thin provisioning, inline deduplication and inline compression in may and replication and data encryption planned for later in the year .
kaminario' s scale - out k2 v4 had a raw maximum capacity of 240 tb and a usable maximum of 120 tb. the new k2 v5 boosted the maximum raw capacity to 307. 2 tb and the maximum usable to 236. 8 tb, with the option to scale further, according to the company .
on top of those updates, kaminario has included others on the k2 v4. the system enables non - disruptive upgrades and kaminario guarantees performance regardless of the failure type with a typical impact at less than 10% . to ensure data security and to recover in the event of failures, the system also provides users with snapshots to keep the system safe and easy to backup. also simplifying the experience, the k2 v4 has plug and play hot - swappable sas drives. the k2 v4 also adds support for vdi environments including vmware vaai, openstack cloud computing and restful api. with that support comes customization; organizations can select iscsi or fibre channel connections .
golan pointed to kaminario’s ability to scale up and out as companies feel they need to increase performance and capacity. that characteristic, he said, “is not trivial; this cannot be mimicked. ” he also pointed to the economics of the company’s gear — the average selling price comes out to $ 2 per usable gigabyte, he said .
in terms of budget - friendly storage, kaminario ceo dani golan views the new hardware as his company' s biggest challenge yet to traditional, disk - based arrays. his company' s latest k2 hardware delivers san capacity at
an average price of $ 2 per gb that' s usable to the customer ,
he told infostor .
the kaminario k2 v5 does not require a dedicated storage administrator to manage and its hardware agnostic architecture helps eliminate forklift upgrades by supporting the mixing and matching controllers and ssds. k2 v5 deployments can scale from 90tb in 4u up to 720tb in 26u with linear growth in performance. all k2 volumes are thin - provisioned and utilize kaminario’s k - raid scheme which is based on raid6 and uses erasure coding on each shelf of 24 ssds. k - raid uses two logical raid groups that each incorporate a parity drive, with additional parity drive for the two groups overall. this k - raid layout is pseudo - randomly distributed throughout each shelf with no fixed parity or data role per ssd and no hot spares .
in the future kaminario could provide software - defined virtual private arrays (vpa) composed from physical k2 arrays. admin staff could drag and drop components from one vpa to another, such as a controller to add compute resource – ie, reallocate a physical controller from one vpa to another, or add a flash shelf (jbof) to increase vpa capacity .
kaminario' s concept is to get its dram by using commercial, off - the - shelf hardware - dell blade servers in this case. these are combined into a grid using a 1gige interconnect and connected to the outside world by a minimum of two clustered i / o directors with two 8gbit / s fibre channel ports each. host servers see a standard block device .
golan explained that storage space - saving tech
allows the customer to choose if they want the dedupe to be on or off per application or per volume .
combined with built - in thin provisioning, global compression, efficient metadata management and k - raid data protection, a raid 6 scheme that delivers 87. 5 percent utilization, golan boasted that kaminario' s arrays deliver the most usable capacity among competing arrays .
the spc - 2 benchmark tests a storage array' s streaming io performance whereas the companion spc - 1 benchmark tests random io performance. kaminario' s k2 v4 array beat everyone else on that benchmark recently. it used the same configuration device, with sandisk ssds, on the spc - 2 test and scored 33. 477. 03 mb / sec with a price / performance of $ 29. 79 / spc - 2 mb / sec .
according to the company’s literature, the kaminario k2 is an enterprise - grade, general - purpose, scale - out all - flash array that eliminates i / o bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency to accelerate applications at a significantly lower cost and smaller footprint than legacy san storage. “there is a window to re - write the operating system for storage, ” says golan who further adds “think of us as a ‘google in a box' solution for storage” .
his fast - growing company is out to disrupt the traditional storage business sector dominated by the likes of hp, netapp, emc and ibm whose disk - based storage technology remains relatively unchanged over the past 60 years. over the last several years, kaminario has been working (mostly behind the scenes) to develop an entirely new approach to flash storage that changes the game in pretty meaningful ways – and seriously impacts how businesses operate, increase productivity and service their clients .
the latest iteration kaminario k2 v4 has several enhancements to improve system performance. the k2 v4 has 400% more read and write bandwidth, 120 microsecond writes and high - end iops. for organizations that need to maximize the capacity they get out of a system, the k2 has increased density 500% while shrinking its footprint to be 400% more efficient. it' s significant to note that those performance and system specs now come at half the price for improved value .
“i was the black sheep of the family, ” says dani golan, founder and ceo of flash storage company kaminario of his place in the super accomplished golan family. the israeli - born golan’s mother runs the largest hospital in northern israel and his three siblings are comprised of a surgeon (phd and md), accountant and phd in law. “as an engineer, i was the only one in high tech, ” states golan. it turned out to be a pretty good move .
the design concept of kaminario project, a worldwide leading data storage company, was to interpret a story of memories, that would reflect the company’s business. the furnishing and the environment had to transmit a clear identity of the brand and, at the same time, join the longevity of the company with its strong character, solid and determined. the different floors of the building have been so designed to create a different story around the central theme of memories such as memories of childhood, movies, music, etc. .
“the rapid adoption of flash storage is being driven by need for flexibility at the application level, ” said gildas paul, manager, storage and backup business unit, its group. “while storage has always been a focus of it, the applications are now defining how storage is acquired. being able to control storage investments costs has also become a must. the combination of an agile software defined architecture and the foresight assurance program makes kaminario unique in the industry and a key player in delivering private and hybrid cloud strategies. ”
the company was founded in 2008 by dani golan with moshe selfin and ofir dubovi, who planned to make an all - dram grid - in - a - box array, which was later changed to an all - flash array. selfin and dubovi then left, with golan becoming ceo. the firm took in five rounds of funding totalling $ 143m between 2009 and 2014 and then enjoyed an oversubscribed funding round of $ 75m this year. kaminario is using the cash to develop its technology and go - to - market initiatives. but it likely can' t outspend pure; it' s not that rich .
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“all flash will become primary storage or general - purpose storage, if you have the right architecture, right cost advantage, and the right scalability, ” golan told venturebeat in an interview .
flash storage companies like nimble storage have gone public, and big tech companies like cisco, ibm, and sandisk have made acquisitions in the area. all - flash hardware startup solidfire has also gained steam .
“we’ve gotten offers in the past for m & a [ mergers and acquisitions ] that we declined, ” he said .
lazarus hedge fund and silicon valley bank and “a large public company” contributed to the new round, according to a statement, as did globespan capital partners, mitsui, pitango venture capital, sequoia capital, and tenaya capital .
the startup claims hundreds of customers, including clearwater, intigua, sandisk, and taboola .
this is the most important announcement we made ever, with the technological achievements we crammed into this new version ,
he said .
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for many vendors, flash storage is bolted on to hard disk storage. but when flash storage is designed from the ground up, it makes a dramatic difference in performance .
the earlier k2 models offered a scale - out architecture, which means that both capacity and performance increased with the addition of new nodes, each of which has its own processors and flash storage capacity, said golan .
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the same is true with scale - up, which automatically distributes volumes across the increased capacity. so customers can both scale up for more capacity and a lower cost - per - gb, and scale out to increase performance and lower latency .
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there are two membership classes: authorised, with access to marketing collateral and sales tools - pretty basic to say the least, and certified, which adds in volume rebates, market development funds, dedicated sales and marketing resources and discounted demo gear .
el reg would guess product development is also going to get a cash boost, and thinks we might see marketing wheezes like a k - stack or k - pod approach, twinning k2 arrays with cisco ucs servers. why not? everybody else seems to be jumping on the ucs bandwagon .
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it teams have seen a clear need for a new type of all - flash storage solution, one that has been designed specifically for users requiring high levels of performance in file - and object - based environments .
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until recently, the conventional wisdom has been that building a high - performance storage system required custom silicon. emc’s symmetrix, hds’s usp, bluearc’s titan and hp’s 3par systems are all crammed full of custom chips. however, with amd and intel boosting the performance of x86 processors, some industry observers, including our own
the k2 systems are built using a rain (redundant array of independent nodes) model. some of the blade servers are iodirectors, which connect to the servers via fibre channel and to the data nodes via 10 - gbps ethernet. when a server writes data to the k2 system, the iodirector writes it to two data nodes for reliability. while the k2 uses fusion - io flash and dram for active luns, each data node also has more conventional disk drives. the system uses these drives both as a backup medium, spooling data off to spinning disk in the background, and to hold snapshot data, since even flash is too expensive for these functions .
in the custom hardware corner, wearing the black trunks, is astute network’s visx g3, with the patented datapump engine. astute tells us that the datapump engine chip, which is, among other things, a 10 - core risc processor, is the key to its being able to crank 80, 000 iops out of a box that consumes just 300 watts of power .
the iscsi - based visx g3 is more a rack - mount ssd system than a complete storage array, relying on host operating system volume managers or, more specifically, vcenter’s storage management for snapshots, replication and the lot. since vmware’s been adding more storage features to vsphere, this model could be attractive to vmware - centric environments, as it allows them to use the same storage management functions across their solid - state and spinning disk systems .
old hands like this humble reporter are amazed by how vendors manage to turn off - the - shelf servers and disks, both solid state and spinning, into storage systems that would have required multiple custom chips in even the recent past. however, as astute’s systems demonstrate, there are still places where custom hardware can cut the power consumption or cost. we as consumers get to benefit from this clash of technologies .
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that’s why the company will use the $ 68 million it recently added to its war chest to expand internationally, build out a global sales force, and raise its profile in the next year, golan said .
“this is a once - every - 30 - years revolution. it’s way bigger than storage by itself. it’s the one last layer in the it stack that’s stayed behind, and as such the market is huge, ” golan said. “and it’s moving toward all - flash much faster than people anticipated. ”
a new, rapidly growing market that big doesn’t go unnoticed. ibm and emc have each acquired solid - state memory startups in the past few years as they try to maintain their place in the data storage market. meanwhile, startups like pure storage and solidfire are making inroads. pure storage has raised $ 470 million, including $ 225 million in a series f round last year that valued the company at more than $ 3 billion, while solidfire has raised $ 150 million following an $ 82 million series d round last year .
“we’re the best of both worlds, and that’s what allows us to be much more economical, ” golan said. the company has heavily emphasized that point in its marketing, saying it can offer customers a price of only $ 2 per gigabyte of capacity .
“we’re not in a rush to go public, ” golan said. “we feel that as a private company we’re moving faster, and there are many advantages to staying private these days. ”
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we charted some of the different vendors' mb / sec and price / performance numbers to provide a graphic comparison. goodness - the fastest performance and lowest price - is located in the lower right corner :
woah, backup a mo. you mean veeam now has 4, 000 netapp resellers flinging its software ?
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k2 v5 arrays are built from discrete k - block units. each k - block uses two 1u k - node storage controllers that are deployed in a true active / active configuration and feature two 8gbps fc ports and two 10gbe iscsi ports for external host connectivity each. k - node controllers also incorporate two 40gbps infiniband ports for k - node backend interconnectivity, two 6gbps sas ports for internal connectivity with the k - block’s ssd shelves, two hot - swappable power supplies, and two hot - swappable battery units. the base ssd shelf has a 2u footprint and incorporates 24 hot - swappable enterprise mlc ssds along with two hot - swappable controllers and two hot - swappable power supplies .
selective deduplication allows administrators to designate certain data as outside the bounds of the k2’s deduplication functionality for datasets where redundancy is negligible and additional performance is required or when security policies do not permit deduplication. in addition to its built - in management options, the k2 platform supports integrations with microsoft vss, oracle rman, and vcenter via plug - in and vaai .
the k2 v5 is now available without replication functionality, with replication expected as an update later this year. k2 uses an all - inclusive pricing model, and offers a guarantee that additional hardware will be provided free of cost if the company’s effective capacity calculations are not achieved in the field for its customers .
the idea is an old one: hold application data sets in externally - attached, solid - state storage and get radically faster access to data. there have been two main approaches. one is to use dram and the main exponent of this is texas memory systems (tms) with its ramsan set of products. the other is to use flash, and fusion - io has been making the running here with one million iops demos with ibm via its san volume controller, and another with hp, both using fusion' s iodrive flash memory card. ibm is now using stec solid state drives (ssds) in an san volume controller flash - based product .
the i / o directors control access to a set of data nodes, the dell blades, whose operation is coordinated by kos operating system software. each data node consists of its cpu, dram and two hard drives. application data is written across data nodes. primary data nodes hold the data in dram with a mirror in one in one of its hard drives. a secondary data node holds a backup copy in its hard drive. should a node fail then data can be reconstructed .
the minimum k2 configuration is two i / o directors and four data nodes offering 500gb raw dram capacity, 300, 000 random iops and 3. 2gb / sec bandwidth. the maximum supported configuration is ten data nodes providing 1. 5 million iops and 16gb / sec bandwidth. customers can start small and buy more i / o directors for performance and more data nodes for capacity .
which other suppliers' products can do a million iops from solid state? fusion - io did it with ibm' s svc using 4tb of flash. hp did it with 2. 5tb of fusion - io flash. lsi has reported getting a million iops from 1tb of seagate pulsar flash. tms did the same with its ramsan 5000 in october 2008 - actually ten ramsan 500s with 640g of dram cache in total and an undisclosed amount of flash. a ramsan 500 can hold up to 2tb of single level cell (slc) flash but the idea of a 20tb system generating just one million iops seems bizarre .
violin memory' s latest 3200 product has from 500gb to 10tb of slc flash and delivers a claimed 220, 000 sustained write iops. vion has a hyperstore - 6200 100tb dram box, using tms ramsan 620 technology, with five million iops and 60gb / sec bandwidth .
to support existing power systems customers, and to address the needs of new customers seeking to expand their cloudhosting capabilities, ibm has announced two new families of cloud - ready power8 - based servers .
the 3 key challenges: managing overwhelming amounts of data, leveraging new complex tools / technologies, and developing the necessary skills and infrastructure .
nand i... will always love you, says micron as it emits 7. 68tb qlc ssd
nand chips are going to stay too pricey for flash to slit disk' s throat ...
for a while at least... spinning rust is going to stick around
“data is growing exponentially and data is the most important asset on earth, besides people, ” says golan. storage companies are the “banks” of it is how golan characterized the category. as result, storage is still one of the fastest growing segments in it and commands more than 50% of most it budgets. it also has high margins and therefore is a highly competitive business. founded in 2008, the boston - based company with an israel - based r & d division, is innovating flash storage technology for a wide range of diverse markets, including financial, telecommunications, web service providers, and government bureaus and agencies .
what makes dani think he can take on the giant storage companies? he has been planning for this moment for much of career. the former israeli fighter pilot learned a lot about how to be a ceo and entrepreneur in the israeli air force. “running a business is like combat flying – you have to very focused on the mission with intense preparation and planning, but you better be prepared for ‘plan b’ because combat never goes as planned, ” says golan .
moreover, all israeli pilots must also be officers. “you have ultimate responsibility and authority over the planning and execution of the mission, ” further states golan. in addition to his military service, dani holds a b. sc. in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) from the technion institute of technology (the ‘mit’ of israel), and an mba from the kellogg school of management, northwestern university .
in parallel to pursuing his executive mba, he joined emc where he was responsible for leading new ventures, and in his last role, reported directly to the vice chairman. he was later recruited to be the president and general manager of performix technologies, which was acquired by nice systems in 2006. “through emc and performix, ” i was fortunate enough to have great experience and exposure to both infrastructure and application technology companies, ” says golan.
kaminario is a needham , massachusetts-based computer data storage company founded in 2008 . kaminario manufactures the kaminario k2 line of solid state storage area network products that use flash memory . the company has offices in boston , israel , new york city and silicon valley . 
kaminario is a needham, massachusetts-based computer data storage company founded in 2008. kaminario manufactures the kaminario k2 line of solid state storage area network products that use flash memory. the company has offices in boston, israel, new york city and silicon valley.
kaminario is a needham, massachusetts-based computer data storage company founded in 2008. kaminario manufactures the kaminario k2 line of solid state storage area network products that use flash memory. the company has offices in boston, israel, new york city and silicon valley.