Skyera Collaborates With Toshiba

Skyera Inc. announced its collaboration with Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc..

As part of the collaboration, Skyera and Toshiba will work together to ensure
that their storage products deliver the performance and capacity storage to support the business-critical needs of enterprises
today and into the future. This exchange of technical and development
information will allow Skyera to leverage the enterprise
architecture of Toshiba’s new second generation advanced 19nm (A19nm) NAND flash technology as part of its skyEagle series of all-Flash enterprise storage
arrays.

"Enterprise customers require a
different set of features for their storage architectures than those in the
consumer marketplace – higher performance, improved power efficiency and
capacity," said Scott Nelson, SVP, memory business unit, Toshiba
America Electronic Components. "By
working closely with Skyera, we ensure that we continue to offer the unmatched
innovation and technologies that our customers have come to depend on from
Toshiba. We look forward to a successful relationship with Skyera as we
continue to deliver on this commitment with optimized solutions that address
the needs of enterprises WW."

"Toshiba’s enterprise NAND products
are well known for their ability to deliver the functionality and performance
that enterprises desire with the high-quality engineering and manufacturing
they need to be successful," said Radoslav Danilak, CEO and co-founder, Skyera. "This agreement allows
for a very symbiotic exchange of technical information that will enable both
companies to leverage our collective expertise to advance solid-state computing
in the mainstream. We are proud to have the opportunity to work closely with
Toshiba to usher in the new era of all-flash enterprise storage."

Skyera is an enterprise array vendor with a flash controller
that can take advantage of the cost and capacity benefits of the most advanced
NAND flash media, yet still deliver IO/s performance and durability that exceed
enterprise standards. Skyera’s third-generation adaptive flash controller, as
implemented in the company’s skyEagle solid-state array, provides a 5-year flash lifecycle at a price point now even lower than HDD-based enterprise
storage arrays. To achieve comparable performance and durability with
conventional flash controllers requires other array vendors to use older
generation, more expensive eMLC or SLC flash and sacrifice the density and
capacity of the newest advanced 19nm flash chips.