FMS: Kaminario and Western Digital Collaborating

Kaminario Technologies Ltd announced a collaboration with Western Digital Corp. (WDC) to deliver superior economics and flexibility for designing cloud-scale datacenters.

Both companies demonstrated their technologies at Flash Memory Summit, at Santa Clara, CA.

Solutions powered by Kaminario’s composable data platform and Western Digital’s enterprise OpenFlex and Ultrastar storage platforms are positioned to help cloud-scale application providers, including consumer internet, software-as-a-service (SaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers, solve the challenges of building datacenter infrastructure for the digital era.

As part of this collaboration, Kaminario will support Western Digital’s Ultrastar NVMe and SAS storage platforms for its K2 appliance and Cloud Fabric software-defined storage offerings.

In addition, Kaminario’s .N software stack is also compatible with Western Digital’s OpenFlex series of NVMf platforms – the foundation for next-generation composable IT infrastructure – that provide disaggregated,  fabric-connected flash and disk building blocks for scaling at the rack level and beyond.

When combined, these products deliver a NVMe/NVMf solution with the capability to dynamically compose, control, reconfigure and manage storage resources at the software layer using Kaminario Flex. This composable storage paradigm delivers the flexibility and economics of software-defined storage with the performance and enterprise data services of traditional shared storage.

“This strategic collaboration with Western Digital allows us to deliver a new storage paradigm for the modern cloud infrastructure,” said Eyal David, CTO, Kaminario. “As many players seek to emulate the efficiency and agility of hyperscale providers, this is an enormous market opportunity for hardware and storage providers to work together to deliver compelling solutions for next-generation datacenter infrastructure.“

“Western Digital offers one of the most expansive portfolios of data center storage devices, platforms and systems that deliver substantially better economics, efficiency, performance and reliability for today’s at-scale enterprise and cloud workloads,” said Scott Hamilton, senior director, product management, Western Digital’s data center systems business unit. “Working with companies such as Kaminario enables new, highly differentiated solutions that address real challenges seen by our customers. We look forward to the possibilities of the combined solution as composable infrastructure and software-defined data centers are gaining momentum as they empower IT to quickly introduce and scale new services to meet business needs.“

Kaminario will offer the K2 appliance for purchase as pre-integrated appliance or as a software-only solution under its cloud fabric program. The K2 appliances will also be available via company’s channel partners.