Second-Gen All-Flash Array From Skyera, skyHawk FS

Skyera Inc. introduced its second-generation solid-state array that allows companies to upgrade their legacy storage platform to flash-based storage at the price of traditional spinning disk technology.

Skyera skyHawk FS is purpose-built for high performance and low cost and leverages advanced NAND memory to deliver the highest density, lowest power consumption and flash-optimized software features – all within the industry’s smallest footprint. With 136TB of raw flash in a 1U storage system, it occupies up to 99% less space and consumes as much as 97% less power while achieving price points equivalent to traditional enterprise disk storage systems.

“With the increasing volume of data that needs to be stored and analyzed by contemporary enterprise applications, there is an increasing pressure on IT organizations to develop strategies to help them gain the upper hand in effectively and efficiently managing their storage,” said Mark Peters, senior analyst at ESG. “Rather than simply deploy more and more traditional equipment into the data center – which uses more power, space, cooling and management – Skyera’s innovative use of flash technology to provide extremes of both capacity and performance can help organizations save on their capital and operational expenditures and positively impact their bottom line.”

Skyera’s approach to flash technology allows enterprises to be smarter about how they satisfy their data demands. The solution’s small size, weight and power provide measurable OPEX savings while its inline hardware-assisted data reduction minimizes storage costs. Unified SAN and NAS in a single platform provides architecture flexibility. The skyHawk FS is designed to enable performance and low latency to address a range of application workloads, including database, server virtualization and big data environments.

skyHawk FS is a dens solution with up to 136TB of raw flash in 1U. With bandwidth speeds up to 2.4GB/s and up to 400,000 IO/s with microsecond latencies, the skyHawk FS is faster than disk-based storage solutions. This offering supports both iSCSI and NFS protocols and its lightweight design – 25 pounds – provides portability.

It incorporates the Skyera Storage OS (SeOS), which offers a range of capabilities to access, manage and protect data. The unified all-flash multi-protocol storage solution simplifies storage management infrastructure and minimizes the number of storage systems required, resulting in lower CAPEX and as much as 90%+ reduction in OPEX. Skyera’s Life Amplification technology extends the projected life of the flash layer by 100 times while proprietary RAID SE technology protects against any flash chip failure within the unit for increased reliability.

“Today’s business conditions demand that enterprises keep their most-important applications running at all times and require that their storage is able to provide the speed and capacity necessary to support these business-critical apps,” said Frankie Roohparvar, CEO, Skyera. “Skyera skyHawk FS has the ability to accelerate even the most-demanding applications while reducing infrastructure costs. By providing low latency and high transactional throughput, we are able to not only optimize database workloads but also provide dramatically higher performance with fewer bottlenecks for virtualized environments.”

The skyHawk FS is available.