IceWeb Selecting OCZ SSDs

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. and IceWEB Storage Corporation announced that
OCZ’s SAS-based Talos 2 SSDs and SATA III-based Deneva 2 SSDs have been
selected by IceWEB for inclusion in complete line of unified data
storage systems.

IceWEB leverages OCZ’s enterprise-class SAS and SATA SSDs to enable its storage
systems with high performance of I/O intensive applications while
lowering power consumption and associated cooling costs.

Today’s enterprise applications demand high levels of I/O
performance from storage systems that HDDs cannot provide since they
only deliver about 100 to 200 IOPS performance. Therefore, in developing
unified data storage systems that yield performance,
reliability and availability, low power and cost-effectiveness, IceWEB required
solid-state storage as these drives store and access data through NAND flash
memory versus from spinning disks.

In a typical industry comparison, it takes about 50 HDDs to provide the IOPS
performance of one SSD, and an SSD only consumes a fraction of the power of an
HDD.

After testing and evaluating competitive SSDs in the industry,
IceWEB selected enterprise-class SAS and SATA-based SSDs from OCZ to enable all
storage arrays in its unified storage platform with a choice of storage
interfaces. Through this process, it was able to determine that the
Talos 2 and Deneva 2 SSDs from OCZ provided the best read/write IOPS performance,
included reliability and endurance tools to extend usable drive life, and
leverages a product roadmap to enable growth within the unified
platform.

The SSDs are also used for IceWEB’s IceCAP Cache Acceleration Protocol,
automated tiering and pure SSD disk tiers, enabling customers to provision an
unified system for maximum application performance and capacity as
various business requirements dictate.

OCZ Talos 2 SSDs support a 6 GB/s SAS interface, capacities up to
1TB, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors, and are designed for mixed workloads
in enterprise environments. They deliver fast transactional
performance for SAS-based drives, supporting 70,000 IOPS (random 4K reads) and
54,000 IOPS for mixed 4K workloads. Unlike competitive SAS-based SSDs,
Talos 2 SSDs are dual ported to provide two redundant data paths, and support
OCZ’s DataWrite Assurance data protection in case of a sudden power loss adding
to the product line’s data integrity.

OCZ Deneva 2 SSDs support a 6 GB/s SATA III interface, capacities up
to 480GB, 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors, and are suited for
write-intensive HPC environments. They deliver fast transactional
performance for SATA III-based drives, supporting 80,000 IOPS (random 4K writes)
with a maximum throughput of 525 MB/s. DataWrite Assurance data protection is
also supported.

In addition to power loss data protection, Talos 2 and Deneva 2
SSDs feature several enterprise-critical functions not available in OCZ’s
consumer product lines delivering such endurance features as minimal write
amplification, intelligent block management and wear-leveling. In addition, They SSDs include security and error correction in the form of
AES-128/256 encryption support and advanced ECC, making these drives
suited for a host of data center, cloud computing, web serving and data
warehousing applications.

"The inclusion of OCZ SAS
and SATA-based enterprise SSDs enables our unified data storage arrays to be
used as high-performance primary storage, or as a performance boost for Tier 2
storage, or as a hybrid system that cost-effectively combines HDDs for bulk
storage capacity with SSDs for high I/O performance in the same array,"
said Steven Toole, CMO of IceWEB. "With complete data protection and performance optimization through OCZ
SSDs, our unified storage systems are a great fit for customers that need high
availability, as well as enterprise scalability, robust features, reduced power
consumption and cooling, all at competitive prices."

"We are very pleased that
our Talos 2 and Deneva 2 SSDs have been selected by IceWEB for their entire
portfolio of unified data storage arrays supporting cloud and virtual
environments, backup and DR, mission-critical applications, and unstructured
data in data center and remote cloud environments," said Ryan
Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The
IceWEB unified data storage system platform with OCZ SSDs implemented help
optimize storage performance and utilization, reduce storage costs, footprint
space, and power and cooling requirements, and simplify storage management."

As part of its unified data storage array portfolio, IceWEB
developed four solutions that include either Talos 2 SAS-based SSDs or
Deneva 2 SATA III-based SSDs, as follows:

• IceWEB 2000: optimizes file and block data storage utilization in cloud and
  virtual environments for SMBs.
• IceWEB 3000: provides reliable backup and DR or high-density storage of
  unstructured video.
• IceWEB 6000: provides HA for environments leveraging a redundant dual controller
  and the cost savings and storage optimization benefits from storage
  virtualization, snapshots and thin provisioning.
• IceWEB 7000: provides redundant and
  scalable unified storage to support applications and unstructured data in the
  data center and in remote cloud environments.