14 DAY TRIAL // In a strong move from Taiwan, InnoDisk major manufacturer and developer of industrial-class storage products, has announced a joint venture between itself, Toshiba and Supermicro.
Called AccelStor, the joint venture is to provide SSD solutions for customers in the financial sector and telecom carriers. In this combined effort, Toshiba will supply NAND flash chips while US company Supermicro will provide server systems and InnoDisk will be responsible for the manufacture of SSDs and other key software technology.
This is a powerful move from InnoDisk that controls 50% of AccelStor shares, as it plans to make a strong move into the cloud computing industry in America after it acquired Actica Consulting in 2011.
Managing to enter the cloud computing area and implementing the company's internet security know-how, InnoDisk wants to develop a strong bond with its new partner in offering strong SSD solutions and cloud storage services to all potential clients.
Apparently, AccelStor plans a line-up of high-performance all-flash arrays together with hybrid storage solutions. Using modern server platforms and adding Toshiba's NAND flash technology, AccelStore claims it will bring cutting edge storage appliances that deliver high IOPS for a wide variety of cloud-computing industry applications.
Leaving Taiwan for US with new server tech
Launching the NeoSapphire line of server racks, AccelStore uses the FlexiRemap technology for random read/write NAND flash drives to have very high IOPS. In order to do so, it reorganizes data on write sequences instead of randomizing it based on having it passed to a special operating system to have it write the available SSDs in a sequential order.
The FlexiRemap leverages the processors to share the workload of SSDs and finally to eliminate bottlenecks cause by SSDs random read/writes processes.
Although excelling in Taiwan, the new team-up with Supermicro will allow InnoDisk and the joint venture of AccelStor to bring its business in US and use Actica's expertise to implement it successfully.