Kaminario Achieves 2 Million IO/s and 20 GB/s
On single MLC flash K2 storage system
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on October 9, 2012 at 3:43 pmKaminario, Inc. has achieved the performance of greater than 2 million IOPS and 20 GB/s throughput on a single MLC-based all-flash K2 storage system.
This achievement is in addition to the K2’s record SPC-1 result for sustained storage performance of 1.22M SPC-1 IOPS and price performance of $0.40 per SPC-1 IOPS, as reported in July. A demonstration of the new world record 2M IOPS for scalable performance was viewed at Oracle OpenWorld in Kaminario’s booth.
2M IOPS and 20 GB/s throughput were achieved with a workload of random reads on a single K2 system containing 60TB of usable MLC flash storage. The 2M IOPS is 33 times faster than the closest competitor, while the 20GB/s throughput is 5 times better than the closest competitor.
This performance was also achieved with less than 1 millisecond latency, which is 4 times better than the closest competitor.
Kaminario’s SPC-1 benchmark result of 1.22M IOPS was achieved with an intense workload mix of random reads and writes. Both benchmarks prove that the K2 can support a large number of IOPS without increasing response times (latency), the most important capability for critical OLTP and virtualized business applications. The company achieves these record results because of the K2’s Scale-out Performance Storage Architecture (SPEAR) and its ability to scale performance linearly while maintaining low latency.
Taneja Group reviewed the results and validated the extreme 2M+ IOPS performance, high 20GB/s throughput and low latency. A full audit report from Taneja Group will be available shortly.
"Seeing these kinds of results from a single, economical, all MLC Flash array is testament to the viability of SSD storage in commercial applications," said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at Taneja Group. "To this performance combination, Kaminario adds full data protection, non disruptive operations and a single system image, making the K2 a top contender in the general purpose storage array market.
"Today’s performance-hungry applications like OLTP, big data and heavily virtualized workloads, especially in mission-critical applications, require a level of performance that cannot be met by spinning hard disk drives alone. It is only with SSD media that these applications become responsive enough to be major contributors to the business. Kaminario’s K2 all-Flash general purpose storage is a great fit for those data-intensive environments where IOPS, throughput and latency are simultaneously important all the time."
As it sustains performance and ultra low latency, the K2 also provides end-to-end, self-healing HA and fast, high-volume data protection, including N+1 redundancy, automatic failover, high-volume snapshots and hot-swappable components for fast, easy and nondisruptive operations.
"The K2’s ability to repeatedly break the I/O barrier and consistently move a substantial number of IOPS with high throughput and low latency demonstrates the power of the SPEAR scale-out architecture to service an increasing number of applications running concurrently," said Dani Golan, CEO of Kaminario. "The Kaminario K2 all-flash array continues to prove it is the highest performing storage solution and also the most cost-effective for companies that need help removing the I/O bottlenecks that stall the productivity of their essential business applications."
The K2 employs a scale-out architecture designed to deliver on the full potential of flash media. SPEAR intelligently balances mixed workloads over a distributed cluster of solid-state storage nodes to provide a stable infrastructure for sustaining high performance and low latency. As a result, applications also see unsurpassed performance and responsiveness.
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