sTec Achieves DataCore Ready Status

sTec, Inc. announced that its s1120 PCIe Accelerator is ‘DataCore
Ready,’ thus validating the drive’s interoperability with the
SANsymphony-V storage virtualization platform from DataCore
Software Corporation.

Building storage systems around PCIe-based s1120, along with DataCore’s
marquis virtualization and hypervisor software, improves response times
and delivers price/performance value to web content, database and
VDI applications.

"sTec’s high-performance SSD
solutions used with DataCore’s storage virtualization platform offer businesses
an exceptional value," said Carlos M. Carreras, VP alliances and
business development, DataCore. "That the s1120 PCIe Accelerator is now ‘DataCore Ready’ enables
organizations to take advantage of SANsymphony-V’s rich storage virtualization
features, including HA and the capability to seamlessly integrate sTec’s SSDs
with their existing storage systems, ensuring instant performance improvement
with minimal disruption."

The s1120, available with up to 2TB of capacity and in a version with
unlimited writes, enables multiple SSDs to be deployed on a single server. It
features data-protection functionality such as PowerSafe technology that
mitigates data loss in the event of a power failure. The s1120 accelerates applications such as data analytics, statistical analysis and
modeling, and video imaging, editing and sharing.

SANsymphony-V provides centralized storage management under a single pane of
control to simplify and optimize existing storage assets, while delivering
enterprise features. The DataCore Ready program identifies solutions such as
the s1120 that are trusted to enhance infrastructures powered by the company’s
SANsymphony-V storage virtualization platform. Only third-party products that
meet the verification criteria set by DataCore are qualified as DataCore Ready.

Recent benchmarking of the drives by international systems integrator losstech GmbH delivered performance, latency and
scalability results, and highlighted the various ways IT professionals can
build a tier-one fast storage layer with SANsymphony-V and sTec SSDs. In these
benchmarking tests, the s1120 demonstrated high performance and, because
it uses minimal host resources, very low latencies.

"Organizations that require
reliable, high-performance storage solutions for their Web, database and VDI
applications need to address a wide range of critical factors, not the least of
them being response times," said Kim Gardner, senior director of sales
for the EMEA region, sTec. "Achieving
‘DataCore Ready’ status helps assure those organizations that they can deploy
sTec solid-state storage solutions with DataCore SANsymphony-V software in servers
to achieve significant response-time improvements for those applications."