NextIO With Marvell To Provide PCIe Flash-Based Solutions

NextIO, Inc., provider of next-generation I/O solutions, and Marvell Technology, in PCIe-based storage products, announced a partnership to provide a robust PCIe-based flash storage solution in a NextIO PCIe system. The solution will be demonstrated for the first time at the 2009 SIFMA Technology Management Conference, June 23-25, at the New York Hilton in New York City.

The NextIO and Marvell partnership provides high-performance computing (HPC) customers with unprecedented levels of scalability for high-performance solid-state drive (SSD) storage, enabling them to choose the optimum mixture of storage, compute, and interconnect performance for their applications. At SIFMA 2009, NextIO and Marvell will demonstrate the powerful storage solution that can achieve over 200,000 IOPs and 1 terabyte per PCIe slot. With a total of 12 PCIe slots, the solution delivers well over 1 million IOPs and 10 terabytes of SSD storage in 3U, using less than 500 watts of active power.

NextIO solutions provide intelligent I/O virtualization that enables the pooling and sharing of server resources, a mixture of high-performance SSDs, as well as other standard PCIe-based I/O such as GPUs. The PCIe-based flash storage system from NextIO and Marvell currently runs on standard Windows and Linux operating systems, as well as any application.

"Marvell is pleased to be supporting NextIO’s high-speed PCIe storage products", said Alan Armstrong Vice President of Marketing of the Storage Business Unit for Marvell Semiconductor. "NextIO’s best-in-class I/O virtualization solutions are leading the market in price, performance, and flexibility for demanding HPC applications."

"Today’s data centers are increasingly demanding higher performance solutions with flexibility to meet ever-changing business needs," said KC Murphy, CEO, NextIO. "Partnering with Marvell enables our customers to choose the optimum mixture of high-speed storage, network and SAN connectivity, creating a new paradigm in rack level I/O."