On SSD System, Skyera Adds Files to Blocks

Skyera Inc.
announced that it has added NAS to its skyHawk
series of solid-state storage systems.

With SAN and NAS connectivity, the company’s unified storage
vision is complete. The series of enterprise solid-state storage
systems are based on latest generation MLC NAND flash in a half-depth 1U form factor with a 44TB of high performance, low
latency native usable capacity for big data, analytics and
virtualization applications.

Unlike some other flash storage software offerings, many of the
features are integrated into the system hardware, eliminating
overhead and increasing overall performance. The vertically
integrated hardware, software, and file system, minimizes
communication and workflow between the system, RAID and Flash
controllers, and eliminates the unnecessary APIs found between
typical off the shelf storage OS layers.

Multiprotocol storage systems, which combine block and file
storage access protocols, are gaining interest and adoption by
enterprises because they offer savings, advances in technology and
simplified management. These unified storage arrays are being
purchased by IT managers who are looking to reduce capital and
operational expenses, as well as limit the number of IT and data
storage administrators required to manage their growing
block and file storage requirements.

This NAS offering is integrated with SEOS, the company solid-state
OS. Capabilities include support for compression, read-only and
writable snapshots, thin provisioning and three different levels of QoS, so customers can build different file systems to
meet varying business requirements. The focus is on feature
set and on ease of use and management. Common management
operations, like file system creation, export, snapshot and real-time
performance monitoring can be done in a click via the web-based or
command line interface.

"A true solid-stage storage solution must be more than
sticking Flash media and controllers in a box with software that was
not designed specifically for solid-state technology,” said
Radoslav Danilak, CEO and co-founder of Skyera. “We wanted to
simplify the life of the storage administrator by converging storage
protocols into a unified enterprise solid-state storage solution
rather than ‘bolting on’ these new capabilities to old storage
platforms.”

With the enterprise solid-state storage systems market expected to
grow to $4 billion in 2015 from only $260 million last year, the
company built an architecture to leverage the
benefits of flash memory while overcoming the limitations faced by
other solution vendors. The system-level solid-state storage
technology combines storage and networking to achieve speed,
reliability and efficiency.

Skyera will be demonstrating skyHawk with these capabilities at Dell Enterprise Forum, June 4-6, in San Jose, CA and
Cloud Expo, June 10-13, in New York City, NY.