SanDisk announce CloudSpeed lineup of sata SDDs for cloud service providers

SanDisk CloudSpeed Eco Gen.II is new lineup of SATA SSDs that are built for cloud service providers and will be available in sizes up ot 2TB. CloudSpeed Eco Gen.II is made on 15nm NAND flash tech and can deliver three times the streaming bandwidth of traditional HDDs. CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II 2TB SSD will be available through SanDisk Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) and select Enterprise Channel Partners later this year. Given that data services like Big Data Analytics, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS are going to hit 25 billion users by 2020. These services may not need blistering speed SSDs and instead what they need is large storage drives that offer good speeds at a low price point. The new generation SSDs can vastly reduce the foot print of a data center, thanks to the small size and being cheaper than the mainstream SSDs, can save lot of money for corporations.

“Digital business transformation has put tremendous pressure on cloud service providers to deliver massive capacity and performance with increasing cost efficiency,” said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions, SanDisk. “As a trusted provider of flash-based solutions for three of the largest cloud service providers, SanDisk understands hyperscale application demands. We’ve designed CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II to deliver better cloud-scale economics with specific features so that cloud service providers can deliver superior customer experiences.”
“We’ve been very pleased with the level of innovation coming out of SanDisk to jointly address the demands of new and emerging markets powered by cloud, mobility and B2B/B2C businesses,” said Albert Mu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation’s TYAN Business Unit. “We look forward to continuing to work with SanDisk to bring these solutions to market, so our joint customers can realize the benefits of the next era in cloud computing.”
“The compelling value proposition of NAND flash memory, coupled with increasing capacities is enabling wide-spread adoption of SSDs for today’s emerging and demanding cloud requirements,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research director for SSDs and Enabling Technologies at IDC. “More cost-effective SSD solutions based on smaller process technologies such as SanDisk CloudSpeed Eco Gen. II, make SSDs feasible for a growing number of cloud and hyperscale applications, which is helping to propel SSD unit shipments to grow at a 34 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2013 to 2018.”