SanDisk today unveiled a new generation of its Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators to improve data center performance. The new Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators - comprised of SanDisk NAND flash, and Virtual Storage Layer (VSL) data access acceleration software - deliver up to a 4x price performance improvement, with up to a 61 percent list price reduction over the previous generation Fusion ioDrive 2 product.

The Fusion ioMemory portfolio offers an array of form factors ranging from PCIe cards to mezzanine storage for HP and Cisco blade servers. Each card is optimized for mixed-use or read-intensive workloads and can also be paired with SanDisk's recently announced next generation FlashSoft caching software, which reduces I/O latency in VMware vSphere, Windows Server and Linux environments.

Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards are designed to solve one of the most challenging data center computing problems: reducing the length of time and infrastructure needed to extract data out of conventional hard drive-based storage systems. By streamlining data access, Fusion ioMemory cards can increase performance - and thereby customer satisfaction - associated with Microsoft SQL, Oracle and MySQL databases, as well as new database technologies such as Spark, Redis and MongoDB.

The updated Fusion ioMemory application accelerator portfolio includes:

• SX350 and SX300 Series - ranging in capacity from 1.25TB up to 6.4TB, provide a cost-efficient solution for both mixed-use and read-intensive workloads.
• PX600 Series - Ranging from 1TB up to 5.2TB, the PX600 series is designed for mixed-use workloads such as virtualization, databases, business intelligence and real-time financial data processing.
• Mezzanine Series - Available on the latest HP Gen9 and Gen8 BladeSystem Servers and the newest CISCO UCS B-Series Blade Servers.
• FlashSoft Bundles - The new bundles deliver the benefits of Fusion ioMemory flash hardware and caching software in a single solution.

Each of the new Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards also offer 2x more random read performance over the ioDrive2 generation.

The new portfolio of Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators is available now for customer qualification.

*Write BW achieved with optional high power mode. Maximum Write bandwidth performance of 1.6 GB/s achievable within 25 W power limit. Performance may vary based on host device. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. X=150 KB/sec.