FalconStor adds solid state acceleration

Teams with Violin Memory to add SSDs

Developments of the week in storage

FalconStor this week announced that it has partnered with Violin Memory to add solid state drive capability to its Network Storage Server (NSS) systems.

Watch a slideshow of a FalconStor product.

The partnership will allow FalconStor to front-end its NSS systems with Violin's 1010 Flash Memory Appliance and add as much as 4TB of SSDs to accelerate I/O and access to storage. FalconStor's NSS systems are Fibre Channel and iSCSI compliant.

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FalconStor this week announced that it has partnered with Violin Memory to add solid state drive capability to its Network Storage Server (NSS) systems.

Watch a slideshow of a FalconStor product.

The partnership will allow FalconStor to front-end its NSS systems with Violin's 1010 Flash Memory Appliance and add as much as 4TB of SSDs to accelerate I/O and access to storage. FalconStor's NSS systems are Fibre Channel and iSCSI compliant.

The FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator uses two technologies – Violin's SSD appliance and storage-management software from FalconStor. The software prioritizes data that will be stored on the Violin appliance.

The Violin appliance speeds writes with a SafeCache algorithm and random reads by use of a HotZone capability, which copies 'hot' data to the SSD cache. The appliance is a 2U box containing PCIe-based SSDs and has according to Violin's claims a sustained random write of 220,000 IOPs and 350,000 random read IOPs. HotZone is a policy-based performance enhancer from FalconStor.

The NSS SAN Accelerator is $32,000 for a 500GB appliance.

In related news, Storwize, a company that compresses and optimizes storage for NAS filers announced some new features. The features include a Random Access Compression Engine, which provides storage optimization for random access and deterministic and loss data compression, and a Compression Accelerator for reclaiming space by compressing existing data. The Storwize appliances also now support NAS high availability configurations. A new Capacity Advisor lets IT managers predict their storage needs.

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Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers.