Skyera skyHawk All-Flash Array DataCore Ready

Skyera Inc. announced that its solid-state storage system, skyHawk, has passed interoperability testing with the DataCore SANsymphony-V storage virtualization platform and has been certified as DataCore Ready.

Skyera has changed the enterprise storage dynamic with its storage platform that combines affordability and performance in an all-flash array to break the price barrier for mainstream enterprise storage. Leveraging a system-wide design approach and advanced NAND flash, skyHawk delivers density and efficiency to mitigate the expense of data growth. Skyera uses minimum overprovisioned NAND flash capacity combined with hardware-based data reduction and flash-optimized RAID-SE to deliver the performance and life expectancy at the cost-effective capacity per dollar.

“Not only is Skyera one of the leading players in the flash storage industry, but they have also revolutionized the industry by developing the only all-flash array to break the HDD price barrier,” said Carlos M. Carreras, VP alliances and business development, DataCore. “The skyHawk storage array combined with SANsymphony-V provides IT departments with a solution designed to virtualize any application, while dramatically increasing performance. We are pleased to partner with Skyera and welcome them into the DataCore Ready program.“

“Skyera offers a uniquely scalable enterprise solid-state storage solution that eliminates storage performance bottlenecks and allows IT departments to virtualize their most demanding workloads,” said Radoslav Danilak, CEO, Skyera. “In our effort to help usher in a new era of storage, we are committed to partnering with leading vendors to ensure the optimization of jointly deployed solutions that offer the ultimate efficiency, functionality and simplicity. As such, we are proud to have been accepted into the DataCore Ready program.“

The DataCore Ready certification identifies solutions that are trusted to enhance SANsymphony-V’s enterprise storage virtualization platform. When combined, Skyera and SANsymphony-V offer customers a number of benefits including up to 100% availability through metro clusters, migration and auto-tiering with existing storage, across unlike storage devices.