XtremIO is a
privately held, venture-backed company founded in 2009. We are developing
breakthrough storage system solutions based on innovative architecture and
storage algorithms, utilizing solid-state drive (SSD) technologies. Our storage
solutions address the growing challenges of modern IT infrastructure, creating
value
through dramatic gains in performance, efficiency, ease of management, and
economics.
see also:- XtremIO's
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Who's
who in SSD? - by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor
January 2012
(prior to the acquisition by
EMC in May 2012 for
$430 million)
XtremIO
- a
big SSD
architecture company - which currently in stealth mode secured a 2nd round
of funding in December 2011 - from various source including
Lightspeed Venture Partners -
bringing its total funding upto $25 million.
"We are on the
cusp of a massive technology shift from performance disk to flash technology for
I/O intensive data center applications. After evaluating the market and
XtremIO's technology, we are convinced that they have a breakthrough
architecture and product to address data center storage I/O challenges"
"It is clear that hard drive based storage arrays have become the
performance bottleneck in the data center infrastructure stack" said Ehud Rokach,
CEO of XtremIO. "XtremIO's array architecture was developed from the ground
up to leverage the speed and unique abilities of flash memory, and with our
strong venture backing we are ready to bring a tremendous leap forward in I/O
and latency performance to the market, unveil unique new capabilities that hard
drive based storage cannot match, and eliminate the complexity that has
traditionally plagued SAN storage configuration and tuning." |
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In December 2011 -
XtremIO secured a 2nd
round of funding in December 2011 - from various source including
Lightspeed Venture Partners -
bringing its total funding upto $25 million.
In May 2012 -
EMC
announced
it has acquired XtremIO
for $430
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demonstrate that it believes PCIe cards are commodities that can be sourced,
whereas flash systems are strategic assets that must be owned." |
Thomas Isakovich, CEO &
Founder, Nimbus Data
What EMC's Acquisition of
XtremIO Means - (May 10, 2012) | | |
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| how fast can your
SSD run backwards? |
SSDs are complex devices and there's a
lot of mysterious behavior which isn't fully revealed by
benchmarks and
vendor's product datasheets and whitepapers. Underlying all the important
aspects of SSD behavior are
asymmetries
which arise from the intrinsic technologies and architecture inside the SSD.
Which symmetries are most important in an SSD?
That
depends on your application. But knowing that these symmetries exist, what they
are, and judging how your selected SSD compares will give you new insights
into SSD
performance,
cost and
reliability.
There's
no such thing as - the perfect SSD - existing in the market today - but
the SSD symmetry list helps you to understand where any SSD in any memory
technology stands relative to the ideal. |
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