CipherWave has launched its new CipherSAN Server Appliance with SSD drives

Issued by Computer Storage Services (CSSI)

Midrand, 10 Mar 2011

CipherWave has launched its fastest storage appliance to date, the “CipherSAN-S Series”. It uses SLC-based Solid State Drives (SSDs) and tested in working environments at transfer speeds of 1.3GB per second and IO Meter readings at 180 000 IOPS in a single storage appliance.

The CipherSAN-S sets a new performance standard for high performance storage servers that require fast random read and write access or in high load transaction environments.

The key performance is 32% energy saving due to the use of SSD drives and the new Intel XEON 7500 series processors, that operate on 45nm technology and drives that produce virtually no heat as compared to normal SATA or SAS drives.

Considering that a SAS hard drive can deliver 1 700 IOPS and a SATA hard drive 1 500 IOPS, the overwhelming performance leap with the new CipherSAN represent over 100 times the average performance of a standard storage appliance sold today. This represents a quantum leap from traditional spindle drives.

Running a complex SQL query on a database with over a million records would take two to three minutes. With the CipherSAN-S the test results returned the queries in less than one second!

For organisations that have exchange or heavy loads on their exchange servers, this appliance will be able to provide zero latency and instant exchange access around the clock, and users can save as they do not have to pay additional fees for licensing additional processors.

SSDs are today a proven technology and deliver proven performance results in many applications from virtual, SQL or web servers to transaction systems, Web interfaces and customer facing portals in just naming a few of the common application requiring high throughput and storage demand that can be satisfied by the CipherSAN-S.

SSDs use a fraction of the power of conventional hard drives and run almost completely cool which saves on air conditioning requirements and power, thus promoting a faster return on investment in operating and energy costs. The entry-level CipherSAN-S series with 12TB of storage, and dual Intel 7500 processors will be launched at under R95 000 (or about $13 500 USD).

More information can be attained on STEC Web site for the ZEUS IOPS drive. Click to: http://www.stec-inc.com

For more information, contact CSSI or e-mail: info@cssi.co.za

Computer Storage Services / CipherWave

Computer Storage Services (CSSI) and subsidiary CipherWave is listed as SA's top performing companies that is a leading data storage specialist providing a host of quality products and data storage services from data storage supply; hard drives, backup systems, data migration to data recovery, forensics and data archival services. The head office is located in Midrand with office locations in Cape Town, Durban and a Serbia location catering for European Markets. CSSI has advanced data recovery labs and a research and development team focused on DR, software and storage development with technology research centres. CSSI is home to the Ministers Award for Technological Excellence and a host of accolades throughout its 11-year history from start-up. CSSI has a distribution division for disk-based storage arrays, data archival and storage components and accessories. CipherVault is the electronic and physical data centre facility housing the first category five rated biometric data vault in Africa with virtual hosting, server collocation and ISP hosting facilities.

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CipherWave has launched its new CipherSAN Server Appliance with SSD drives

With over 180 000 IOPS of raw performance and data transfer speeds of 1 300 Megabytes per second, the CipherSAN appliance is one of the fastest storage devices to hit the market.