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Kaminario announced the availability of a new white paper, "Database Performance and the Kaminario K2 All Solid-State SAN Storage." Written by Robin Harris of StorageMojo, an independent analyst firm focused on emerging IT technologies, the paper discusses how storage systems are not keeping up with today's applications' requirements for data intensive workloads and points out that "as numerous performance benchmarks and customer experience show, solid-state storage, especially that using a mix of media, is simply the fastest mass storage available."

Harris' paper elaborates that businesses need to consider the strengths of specific solid-state media (DRAM and Flash) to achieve enterprise levels of availability, reliability and maintainability. The paper declares that solid-state storage like the Kaminario K2, which offers the flexibility to choose DRAM, Flash or a combination of both depending on the workload and budget, "is a fundamental advance over disk-based architectures: much faster, more efficient, more flexible and, if total cost of ownership and the benefits of performance are taken into account, remarkably cost-effective."

In the paper, Harris states the following about the Kaminario K2 all solid-state SAN storage:

"The Kaminario K2 is the only hybrid product on the market today that allows you to use both DRAM or flash or both in a single array and supports enterprise-class high availability. This results in high performance - up to 1.5 million IOPS in a single rack - with extremely low latency: 120/260 microseconds for reads and 150 microseconds for writes. The K2 provides an extremely efficient infrastructure: fast, compact, scalable and reliable, capable of handling the most demanding enterprise applications and databases."