SanDisk SAS SSDs Into Stratus ftScalable G2 Array

The SanDisk Corp.‘s Lightning Enterprise SAS SSDs are now offered in Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd‘s ftScalable G2 Storage, a fault-tolerant array manufactured for Stratus by Dot Hill Systems Corp.

The Stratus array connects to the fault-tolerant ftServer system line, providing customers with uptime assurance for servers and storage.

Lightning SSDs are equipped with reliability and endurance features, as well as performance, that complement Stratus’s requirements for uptime assurance solutions. Customers select Stratus’ resilient software and hardware products, with proactive remote monitoring and management technology, to protect mission-critical applications, such as payments processing and other high-volume transaction workloads, healthcare systems, emergency dispatch, virtualization and cloud computing, for example.

"SanDisk Lightning Enterprise SSDs have been specifically designed to deliver high sustained I/O performance with predictable response times in demanding, 24/7, transaction-intensive environments," said Greg Goelz, SanDisk VP and GM, Enterprise Storage Solutions. "The partnership with Stratus is ideal in that our mutual goal is to protect customers with mission-critical applications."

The ftScalable G2 storage array is suited as an SSD platform. High-speed 8Gb FC or 10Gb iSCSI host connection and 6Gb SAS backend maximize the performance of the drives, while the patented DupliCache technology improves write performance.Availability enhancements, such as hot spares and redundant, hot-plug components, protect mission-critical data stored on the SanDisk drives, while support for both SSDs and HDDs allow the configuration to optimize performance based upon data usage patterns.

"Performance, reliability, and speed are essential system features for ensuring that our customers’ critical workloads receive the highest levels of uptime assurance possible," said Dave LeClair, director of product management & marketing at Stratus. "We are fortunate to have partners such as Dot Hill and SanDisk that excel at designing and manufacturing products that deliver these qualities at levels far above the norm."

Stratus solutions deliver high level of availability. Currently its global installed base of ftServer systems is operating at nearly 99.9999% uptime reliability, or approximately 31 seconds of downtime annually per server.