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Skyera and Everspin Partner to Significantly Improve Memory Reliability in Solid-State Storage Systems
CHANDLER, Ariz. --(Business Wire)--
Everspin
Technologies, the global leader in developing and manufacturing
magnetic-based memory (MRAM), is providing MRAM
technology to Skyera
to supercharge memory applications on its newly announced solid-state
storage system. This is the industry's first all solid-state storage
appliance that uses MRAM to provide customers with ultimate reliability
for their critical data storage infrastructures.
Using Everspin MRAM in conjunction with Skyera's MLC NAND Flash-based
enterprise solid-state storage systems eliminates the drawbacks of
capacitor-backed RAM (News - Alert) solutions to provide customers with enhanced data
center fault recovery, reduced system downtime and lower total cost of
ownership.
"Companies are increasingly turning to Flash-based storage systems to
achieve greater performance of their applications but often must balance
enhanced performance with issues that may burden such volatile systems,"
said Joseph Unsworth, research vice president at Gartner (News - Alert). "Companies
that can leverage technology that takes volatility out of the equation
at the storage and memory level will also widen the opportunity for
solid-state storage deployments for customers that demand highly
reliable environments."
Everspin MRAM combines the best features of non-volatile memory and RAM
to deliver truly non-volatile RAM enabling powr fail protection. By
enhancing data center and networking fault recovery, MRAM can reduce
system downtime and also simplify system design providing an overall
lower total cost of ownership. Compared to alternative non-volatile RAM
solutions, MRAM eliminates the need for external components such as
resistors, capacitors, batteries or super-capacitors including
additional power fail logic circuitry. The elimination of these
components improves data fidelity and system form factor while providing
the most reliable solution at the overall lowest cost.
"Skyera is the latest enterprise-storage leader to choose Everspin's
MRAM technology to replace capacitor backed RAM," said Phill LoPresti,
president and CEO of Everspin. "For a company like Skyera to incorporate
our technology into its stack shows their commitment to overcoming
reliability issues on the storage side and providing the best possible
user experience."
Skyera's enterprise solid-state storage system is based entirely on
19/20 nanometer consumer Multi Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash at a system
price of less than $3 per gigabyte before compression and deduplication.
The compact half-depth 1u form factor sports a staggering 44 terabytes
of high performance, low latency native capacity for the most demanding
Big Data, analytics and virtualization applications. It was designed
from the ground up to incorporate the most innovative technology
available to yield the 100 times life amplification required to achieve
enterprise reliability and endurance requirements.
"We are not simply providing the same class of storage systems
previously introduced, throwing some Flash into a box and hoping it will
be enough to convince enterprises that they now have something to suit
their exact needs," said Radoslav Danilak, Skyera CEO. "We are
optimizing each and every component of the system, and Everspin MRAM
allows us to overcome any point of failure within the system memory
while providing the best possible performance to supercharge
enterprise-class applications."
Flash Memory Summit
The Skyera solid-state storage system featuring Everspin MRAM technology
will be shown publicly for the first time at the upcoming Flash
Memory Summit (FMS) Aug. 21 - 23 in Santa Clara, Calif. In addition,
Everspin will be chairing the MRAM panel on Wednesday, Aug. 22, which
includes a presentation by Everspin titled "Enabling Write Cache with
ST-MRAM," and is presenting as part of the "Life Beyond Flash: New
Non-Volatile Memory Technologies" panel on Thursday, Aug. 23.
About Everspin Technologies
Everspin Technologies is the leading developer and manufacturer of
magnetic RAM (MRAM), offering stand-alone and embedded MRAM products. As
the world's first volume MRAM supplier, Everspin has established itself
as "The MRAM Company" with an intellectual property portfolio of more
than 600 active patents and applications, many of which are fundamental
and essential for MRAM technologies. Today Everspin delivers MRAM
products to broad applications in the data center and storage, energy
and infrastructure, and automotive and transportation markets, and
expects to be the industry's first volume supplier of ST-MRAM in 2012. www.everspin.com
Everspin and the Everspin logo are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Everspin Technologies, Inc. All other product or service names are
the property of their respective owners. © Everspin Technologies, Inc.
2012.
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