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Kaminario announced the availability of a lab validation report and product brief from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) on the recently-announced Kaminario K2-H (hybrid) all solid-state SAN storage system. The K2-H is the first SAN storage solution to allow the freedom to choose a mix of high-speed, solid-state media (DRAM and MLC Flash) to eliminate IO bottlenecks and accelerate the performance of business applications at a price point lower than legacy SAN storage.

The ESG Lab Validation Report, which provides the results of hands-on evaluation and testing of the K2-Hybrid, highlights numerous results, including:

-- Testing with industry standard multi-user database workloads confirmed that K2-Hybrid Flash devices can be used to break through storage performance bottlenecks.

-- Testing with a variety of performance sensitive workloads, showing the K2-Hybrid yielded high levels of performance and throughput that scaled predictably as storage nodes were added.

-- Testing to demonstrate how the K2-Hybrid architecture is fully redundant, highly available and safe.

The ESG Lab Validation Report concludes:

"The K2 Hybrid enables organizations to take advantage of the speed of DRAM and the affordability of MLC flash as it extends the benefits of solid state usage to multiple workload types simultaneously. The K2 Hybrid eliminates IO bottlenecks and accelerates business applications as it makes an organization more productive, efficient, and "green" without breaking the bank."