Kaminario Partners With Matrix
For reselling K2 SSD storage
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 20, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Kaminario announced a sales and marketing
partnership with Matrix, an information technology services company in
EMEA. Matrix will resell and implement Kaminario’s K2 SSD storage appliance to deliver storage
solutions for enterprises to address the data access demands of their most
critical applications.
Matrix operates in some of the largest IT projects in Israel
with hundreds of enterprise customers in industrial, commercial,
banking, financial, telecom, security, health, public and governmental
organizations. Matrix’s infrastructure division deliver storage solutions that
must meet enterprises’ expectations around performance, high availability, and support of their most demanding applications. In offering the
Kaminario K2 SSD storage appliance to its customers, Matrix answers the need
for increasing application performance and reducing runtime while ensuring that
data critical to the application is highly available. The Kaminario K2 also
enables Matrix to offer its customers a storage solution that is easy to
deploy and manage, helping them to reduce application costs and increase their
ROI.
"Accelerating application runtime is a top priority for
our customers. Their preference is to invest in hardware over changing the
application, both from a cost and an assimilation point of view." said Udi
Eylon, applicative infrastructure department manager, finance and technology
division, Matrix. "Based on those needs and the available solution
alternatives, we chose Kaminario as a unique solution for our clients. The
Kaminario K2 high performance SSD storage system enables acceleration of the
application by up to 25 times while offering high availability and easy
installation and management."
Based on a Scale-out Performance Storage
Architecture (SPEAR), the Kaminario K2 uses off-the-shelf blade servers and SSD
media to create a blazingly fast, highly available and distributed storage grid appliance. The Kaminario K2 supports millions of IOPS,
tens of GB/s of throughput and extremely low latency in order to accelerate
application performance. The Kaminario K2 also supports N+1 redundancy,
including dual UPS for data reliability and availability.
"We are very pleased to have a highly respected IT
solutions provider like Matrix join our growing partner network. Their clients
are in industries where the Kaminario K2 will provide immediate, measurable
business benefits," said Dani Golan, CEO, Kaminario. "We look forward
to working with Matrix to help their customers overcome their application
performance challenges."