SanDisk will demonstrate its latest advancements in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technologies for the enterprise at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase: “Taming the Data Beast” on Wednesday, May 9 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, CA.

As an official event sponsor, the SanDisk Enterprise Storage Solutions (ESS) group will take part in the following demonstrations over the course of the show:

• Advancements in PCIe Storage (SCSI Express)
Accelerate your enterprise using SCSI Express – a proven SCSI protocol combined with PCIe to create an industry-standard path to PCIe-based storage – to provide unprecedented levels of performance and low latency

• Unstoppable Data Center
SanDisk Lightning SSDs highlight the robustness and resiliency of SAS-based storage solutions to provide end-to-end data protection

• Tiered Storage in a Flash
Underscore the benefits of tiered storage to enable organizations to optimize data storage infrastructures using a combination of storage solutions to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase performance

• No Compromise Performance
Achieve unprecedented levels of performance, scalability and true interoperability, requiring no modification to existing system configurations or software

As an active member of STA, SanDisk’s participation in this event underscores its commitment to promoting and supporting the latest industry initiatives and driving enterprise technologies forward.

It’s free to attend, so hope to see you there. For additional details or to register to attend, click here.

Mike

SanDisk Lightning Enterprise Solid State Drives (SSDs) were chosen to deliver high I/O performance in the new Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse Platform 6690 (Teradata Active EDW), designed to be an analytic workhorse managing tough, real-time workloads for enterprise customers.

The Teradata Active EDW is the company’s newest generation of hybrid storage leveraging a balance of SSDs and HDDs to handle massive data volumes from thousands of concurrent users. The system easily manages concurrent mixed workloads that include ad hoc, tactical, and basic reporting queries.

SanDisk Lightning SSDs are equipped with leading enterprise-class performance, reliability and endurance, making our drives the top pick for the new Teradata Active EDW.

Here are a few links to industry information on the benefits of hybrid storage, and the Teradata press release:

Solid State Drives – A big Step Forward for Analytic Workloads: B-eye Network Podcast, Dan Graham
Teradata’s Hybrid Storage: White paper, Jerome Wendt, DCIG analyst
Hot and Cold Running Data: Teradata Magazine article, Keith Muller
Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse Platform 6690 press release

Greg

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-iOL) formed Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Consortium to broaden industry support and cooperation for the adoption of PCIe SSDs. As an industry leader in both enterprise and consumer-based SSDs, SanDisk is among the founding members.

The Consortium will focus on using NVMe as the protocol interface for PCIe flash-based SSDs, allowing members to test interoperability and conformity to industry standards in a vendor neutral location.

SanDisk’s participation in this collaborative testing model not only helps drive innovation in demanding enterprise storage environments, but underscores our commitment to be an end-to-end resource for IT managers and OEM system developers.

The full press release is available here for your reference.

Greg

As a leading provider of enterprise-class SSDs, SanDisk will share its expertise and market insight in the Avnet Embedded Solid State Drive Virtual Summit, a free, on-demand technical summit that offers the latest in product and technical information.

SanDisk’s senior product marketing manager, C.T. Chu, will discuss several topics on how to leverage SSDs in the enterprise. Presentations include:

• Achieving Predictable QoS Under Increasing Workload with Enterprise SSDs
SSDs are fast, but how to tell you’re actually getting the best performance for your applications

• SSD Use Models (Do More with Less!)
Mystified by SLC and MLC? Determine which works best for your application. SanDisk offers an easier way to choose

• SSD Solutions for All Facets of Enterprise Applications
SATA, SAS and PCIe – discussing the differences and advantages of these interfaces

In addition, C.T. will conduct a live chat session on April 4 from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m., to discuss how enterprise IT managers and systems developers can take full advantage of next-generation flash-based storage technologies.

Click the banner below to register. Lots of interesting information will be delivered, so I hope you can tune in.

Greg

SanDisk has acquired caching software provider, FlashSoft, extending SanDisk’s Enterprise Solutions portfolio and strengthening its position as an industry leader in the enterprise storage space.

FlashSoft enables flash products such as SanDisk’s Lightning® Enterprise SSDs to be configured as high-performance cache for servers’ HDD storage, allowing customers to improve performance with smaller, more cost effective storage configurations and to deploy more virtual machines per server in virtualized environments.

We’re excited to welcome FlashSoft to SanDisk’s enterprise storage team and look forward to new, innovative solutions we can create together.

Greg

PS: You can see the full press release here for more detail on the acquisition.

SQLServerCentral.com’s Wesley Brown holds enterprise storage to high standards, and when testing SanDisk’s Lightning® LS 300S, he didn’t hold back. His two-part review covers drive basics and I/O performance, and then delves into benchmarks and long-term stress tests.

The Lightning drive performed very well in each test pattern, one “real world” scenario and the other loosely based on the Intel database test pattern. The drive performed particularly well with response times and capacity for write workloads.

Wesley concludes, “I can say without a doubt the … LS 300 is one of the finest solid state disk I’ve ever worked with.”

See the full review here: Part One and Part Two.

Greg

SanDisk Lightning Enterprise Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been named the gold winner in the Enterprise Products of the Year category in the Best in Biz Awards, the only national business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.

Best in Biz Awards 2011 were presented in more than 30 categories, including Best Overall Company of the Year, Most Innovative Company of the Year, Executive of the Year and Best New Product of the Year. More than 150 entries were received in this year’s awards program, from an impressive array of public and private companies from a variety of industries, sectors and regions. The companies that won gold, silver and bronze awards in this year’s program represent the best in American business.

Being named the Gold winner further underscores our ongoing commitment to providing IT managers and OEM system developers and designers with the best performing enterprise-class data storage solutions possible.

You can see the complete list of winners here: http://www.bestinbizawards.com/2011-winners-product/.

Greg

Shortly following SanDisk’s acquisition of Pliant Technology, editor Logan Harbaugh put five drives with price ranging from $250 to $8400 to the test for his review on ITworld.com, including our Lightning® LS 300S 3.5” 300GB drive*. Others include:

• Intel SSDSA2SH064G1GC 2.5” 64GB
• LSI WarpDrive SLP-300 (SSS-6200) PCI-E 300GB
• OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE OWCSSDMXRE400 2.5” 400GB
• Plextor PX-128M2S-02 2.5” 128GB

The Lightning drive fared incredibly well among the competition, with Logan noting, “Of the drives connected by SATA or SAS, the Pliant was the clear performance winner, with very high throughput and very low response times, ideal for database applications.” In addition, with no performance degradation during the write-intensive test and available expandability, he concluded that the Lightning drive is an “excellent choice for databases that are performance-limited by storage performance.”

Check out the full review here when you have the chance.

Greg

*SanDisk provided a drive for testing purposes

We are very excited today to be kicking off Enterprise Storage Sense, the SanDisk® Enterprise Storage Solutions (ESS) blog. The blog name may feel familiar to some – and so, a little background: In May of this year, SanDisk acquired Pliant Technology, a leader in high-performance, highly-reliable enterprise-class SAS SSD solutions. Since then, the team has been busy integrating into the company and continuing to develop innovative, new enterprise SSD solutions to expand the Lightning® product family offering. And thus, the Enterprise Storage Solutions division of SanDisk – SanDisk ESS – was formed.

Stay tuned for SanDisk and enterprise IT/storage system industry updates, insight, news and more from the ESS team. It’s great to be back online….

Greg