SanDisk Enables Performance & Density Gains for Cloud Infrastructures with New CloudSpeed Ultra Gen SATA SSD

SanDisk today announced its new CloudSpeed UltraGen. II SATA SSD for cloud service provider (CSP) and software-defined storage (SDS) vendor environments. Offering up to 1.6TB of usable capacity, CloudSpeed UltraGen. II SATA SSD provides  the storage performance and density needed for mixed-use, latency-sensitive transactional workloads—such as e-commerce and collaborative online services. Expanding on SanDisk’s existing portfolio of cloud-focused flash solutions, CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II delivers unmatched price/performance leadership at a little over $0.04 per IOPS versus $3.50 per IOPS typically inherent with conventional SATA HDDs. Additionally, CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II serves up to 32,000 4K w rite IOP S with 530MB/sec throughput, and an 80 microseconds random read write latency - delivering 99.9 percent quality of service (QoS).

Traditionally, CSPs have aggregated HDDs with caching mechanisms to address transactions and I/O intensive use cases. However, doing so has caused them to incur laborious and manual administrative costs to maintain high performing tiers of IT infrastructure. To effectively meet the performance demands of today’s newer cloud applications, exorbitant numbers of HDDs would need to be coupled with elaborate and costly performance enhancement schemes—causing grossly inefficient use of data center space and resour ces. CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II is designed with value and performance in mind—delivering a compelling price/performance ratio and unparalleled latency-sensitive workload performance for cloud elasticity that meets today’s cloud-capacity needs while avoiding the server sprawl.

As with all CloudSpeed SSDs, CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SSD includes SanDisk’s innovative Guardian Technology Platform, which works to provide a combination of powerful error correction and detection technology, full data path protection and data fail recovery. CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SSD also comes with a limited five year warranty.

CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SSD will be available for select CSP and SDS customers in August and on a staggered channel release through the Enterprise Channel Partner program.