The Rombus Group Becoming OCZ Customer

OCZ Technology Group,
Inc. announced that
its PCIe flash-based SSDs for enterprise and workstation applications are qualified
on specific Rombus Group platforms.

This includes OCZ’s Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD Series for Rombus Supermicro Tertia
enterprise servers and OCZ’s RevoDrive 3 SSD Series for Rombus Quinta
workstations. These SSDs are available from The Rombus Group and targeted for SMBs
in Germany.

The ability to achieve optimized VMware virtualization
within the Supermicro Tertia platform was a priority for The Rombus Group in
their selection of Z-Drive R4 SSD Series. Each Z-Drive R4 card provides a
compact, power-efficient solid-state solution that fits directly into the
server’s PCIe slot to increase application performance while delivering fast
and reliable access to data without burdening host CPU and memory resources.

The Z-Drive’s Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) distributes the application loads between all available flash on the host-based
SSD card resulting in optimal random data access performance within virtual
server environments. With many SAN/storage infrastructures based on FC/iSCSI
deployments, the implementation of Z-Drive R4 cards within Supermicro Tertia
servers enable I/O access and application performance while
lowering IT operating costs when compared to conventional HDDs.

To complement power users and multimedia designers in
workstation environments, The Rombus Group now features RevoDrive 3 SSD
family to its Quinta workstation platform. The RevoDrive 3 SSD Series is
designed for intensive workstation applications delivering
performance and a sophisticated feature-set also based on OCZ’s proprietary VCA
Technology. This single-card solution reduces the burden on host resources and
is suited for professional media development and management.

"We are very pleased that our
partnership with The Rombus Group has resulted in qualifications of our PCIe
offerings into their enterprise server and workstation platforms,"
said Wayne B. Eisenberg, SVP sales for OCZ. "The Z-Drive R4 Series and RevoDrive 3 Series
represent a turning point in the evolution of PCIe solid-state storage enabling
ultra-fast I/O access and application performance, advanced durability and
reliability, while slashing capital and operating costs."

The Z-Drive R4 Series is available in both full-height (FH) and half-height configurations. The FH form factor supports storage
capacities from 800GB to 3.2TB and random write operations (4K blocks) up to
410,000 IO/s. The RevoDrive 3 is FH-compliant with storage capacities up
to 480GB and random write operations (4K blocks) up to 130,000 IO/s.