MSA Selects Kaminario All-Flash Storage Array

Kaminario, Inc. announced Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA) has selected its  K2 all-flash storage array to power its internal marketing analytics applications and support its hosted infrastructure services.

In analytics, IT infrastructure and information management solutions, MSA provides analytical-based solutions across a spectrum of industries – from consumer packaged goods, media and IT to medical, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and the arts.

K2 provides MSA with database performance, helping reduce the run time of their most critical analytic workloads by 15 to 40%. Extending the benefits beyond just application performance improvements, the infrastructure also enables MSA to optimise its power and data center space utilisation, reducing operational spend by nearly 70%.

“With our focus on performance, security and continuity of our data centers, the Kaminario K2 is a perfect match,” sai Mario Cafaro, VP, MSA. “This partnership gives the flexibility to provide our customers tremendous performance, security and recoverability of their data.“

In addition, the MSA IT Systems and Services (ITSS) division, which provides customers with a secure hosting environment and a range of IT services, is partnering with Kaminario to provide the underlying storage infrastructure for enterprises to leverage the performance and flexibility of K2 in a managed services infrastructure. K2 will ensure performance and scalability for all of MSA’s data centers.

“Kaminario – a recognised leader in cloud-ready flash storage for SaaS companies – together with MSA will deliver a strong platform for modern, database-driven application to our customers,” said Itay Shoshani, chief revenue officer, Kaminario. “In addition, MSA’s customers can now leverage Kaminario K2’s scalability and cost efficiencies, which will allow them to further expand and support their IaaS and on-demand applications, fast.“