The software stack transforms commodity servers into low latency, ultra high performance, solid state shared storage devices and caching SAN accelerator appliances: Now the power of Solid State Resources can be deployed and shared by servers across the network through powerful virtualisation & caching technology.

MANCHESTER, UK, 20 June 2011 - id7, the UK based developer of intelligent interconnecting storage technologies, have today announced the VS-fusion is now generally available as a bootable software stack, designed to cost effectively bring solid state performance into the mainstream storage market, boosting performance up to 1 million IOPS to feed the most hungry applications and demanding virtualised environments.

Today, everything hinges on storage. I/O intensive applications and virtual infrastructures can place extraordinary demands on traditional hard disk based arrays. Too often, Storage Area Networks (SANs) slow down centralised IT operations not because they are poorly designed or built, but because they are physically constrained by the hard disk based arrays beneath. Enter id7’s VS-fusion appliance, available as either a hardware appliance or the bootable software stack that allows customers to choose the appliance server platform, from either Dell, HP, IBM or Supermicro, to deliver an ultra-high performance solid state shared storage device and front-end caching appliance right across the SAN.

The VS-fusion combines Fusion-io technology and id7’s advanced virtualisation and cache algorithms as a SAN connected appliance to boost existing and new HDD Storage Array IO performance (IOPS) by up to 100 times whilst also significantly reducing latency. The net result is that demanding business applications, such as Oracle, SQL & Exchange, run significantly faster and deliver incredible performance boosts to existing VM and VDI environments across the entire SAN.

Mark Klarzynski, CTO id7, reveals more: “Earlier in 2011, id7 announced the VS-fusion hardware appliance incorporating this caching accelerator software. What we have done now is to take the technology to the next level, extracting the software stack, so that

end users are free to make server platform selection from either Dell, HP, IBM or

Supermicro.”

Tyler Smith, Vice President of Alliances, Fusion-io, comments on the relationship.

“Fusion-io pioneered the use of flash memory deployed via the server through PCI

Express to provide ultra high performance for even the most demanding applications.

We are excited to continue along this path of innovation with id7 to offer high availability

shared storage that allows multiple hosts to benefit from the same performance boost.

We chose to collaborate with id7 because they share our view that performance is best

maximized by seamlessly connecting directly to the host or SAN and providing multiple

connectivity options including Fibre, iSCSI and InfiniBand.”

Neil Munday, CEO id7 comments, “What has been achieved here is to allow our

customers that have existing relationships with Fusion-io’s server vendor partners to

purchase the hardware components direct from them. The VS-fusion software stack

simply boots on the server and creates a VS-fusion appliance. The performance benefits

will allow existing arrays, comprising slow high capacity SATA or fibre drive SAN storage

to be reutilised and accelerated to SSD level performance. Furthermore we have

overcome the restrictive price burden of running multiple SSDs that initially daunted

many organisations. It’s a compelling message in these resource restricted times.”

MSRP Pricing for the VS-fusion software stack is £18,000 per server appliance and

£35,990 to £47,495 for the hardware appliance with capacity ranges from 320GB to

1280GB respectively which includes Fibre Channel, iSCSI and InfiniBand connectivity as

a default. The VS-fusion is available to purchase now through id7’s network of direct

premier partners.

About id7:

id7 is a UK storage technology company specialising in the development of its

‘interconnecting’ technology and manufacture of iSCSI, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand

solutions including SAN acceleration & SAN to cloud integration. id7 is a major developer

of storage technology utilised and branded by many storage vendors throughout the

world and has helped to pioneer advancements in today's storage infrastructures. In

September 2009, id7 launched its 4th generation technology under the company's id7

brand with a focus on providing simple, affordable, enterprise class storage solutions.

To learn more about id7, go to www.id-7.com. Become an id7 follower on Twitter at

http://www.twitter.com/id7storage.

Full data sheet available: http://www.id-7.com/VS-fusion_Software_Stack.pdf

About Fusion-io:

Fusion-io, a leading provider of system, application and database acceleration, is unleashing the potential of performance-starved applications, allowing companies to rethink the way they architect their data systems. With a Fusion Powered data center, companies can increase productivity, shrink time to market and improve their customers' experience, all with less hardware, less power, and less administration. Companies are seeing performance gains of many magnitudes and server consolidation from 3-10x. Fusion-io is powering innovation that helps companies do more with less.

To learn more about Fusion-io, go to www.fusionio.com. Follow Fusion-io on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/fusionio and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/fusionio

Local PR Agency Contact:

Sharon Munday,

Director,

On Your Case Ltd

www.onyourcase.co.uk

 

Published on Monday, 20 June 2011 21:11