SanDisk and Supermicro form strategic alliance to develop all-flash storage solutions

NEW DELHI, INDIA: SanDisk Corporation and Supermicro have announced a strategic alliance to bring out the next-generation software defined all-flash storage solutions for the data center. At the core of this collaboration are SanDisk’s InfiniFlash System—a high-capacity and extreme-performance flash-based storage system and Supermicro’s leading high-performance servers.

These solutions will also be made available with Nexenta’s flagship Open SDS unified file and block storage platform, and the NexentaStor platform.

“Our partnership with Supermicro and Nexenta brings the best of both worlds to data centers: breakthrough economics compared to traditional all-flash array deployments, and dramatically higher performance, improved reliability and lower power consumption compared to hard disk drive-based arrays,” said Ravi Swaminathan, Vice President and General Manager, System and Software Solutions, SanDisk.

“Supermicro end-to-end computing solutions deliver the best performance, efficiency, scalability and reliability needed in the rapidly evolving all-flash storage system market,” said Don Clegg, vice president of Marketing and Business Development, Supermicro.

The joint solution aligns with the growth of disaggregated data centers propelled by Big Data and cloud environments.