StorTrends Closes 2014 with Strong Momentum as Demand for Hybrid and All Flash Storage Solutions Fuels Record Growth of 500%

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StorTrends Closes 2014 with Strong
Momentum as Demand for Hybrid and All
Flash Storage Solutions Fuels Record
Growth of 500%
Customers Across Education, Energy, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing and
Retail Speak Out on the Benefits and Value of StorTrends Flash Storage Arrays
NORCROSS, Ga, January 06, 2015 /PressReleasePing/ - StorTrends® today announced
the close of a record breaking year as sales for its storage appliances grew by 500% with the
introduction of the StorTrends Hybrid (HFA) and All Flash Arrays (AFA).
StorTrends 3500i flash storage delivers the first and only storage area network (SAN) to
combine solid-state drive (SSD) caching and SSD tiering into a single storage appliance.
Optimized to support VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix and RHEV enterprises of all sizes,
the StorTrends 3500i is available as a hybrid or full flash array, and delivers dramatic
enterprise performance and reliability at an extremely affordable price point.
“The flash-based storage market, which includes both AFAs and HFAs, is on fire. In the first
half of 2014, the combined markets grew at noticeably higher rates than what IDC had
forecast it to grow with previous projections. Individually, each market segment also outgrew
our 2013 forecast projections,” said Eric Burgener, Research Director, Storage, IDC. “End
users are learning that flash storage provides improved performance, higher reliability, longer
endurance and compelling TCO when deployed at scale, as well as enterprise-class data
services. Clearly, if you are an end user, you should be considering flash-based arrays when
the time has come to retire your existing enterprise storage platforms.”
StorTrends Key Milestones:
· Premieres StorTrends 3500i SSD Array – StorTrends 3500i SSD Array offers an allinclusive
set of features including SSD Caching, SSD Tiering, Automatically Tiered Volumes
(ATV), Automated Data Tiering, and replication with WAN optimization. These features,

together with the unique combination of SSD and HDD technology in a slim 3U configuration,
deliver up to 64TB of storage capacity within the 3U and expansion capacity of up to 256TB.
The SAN storage solution features hot-swappable dual controllers with Active/Active or
Active/Passive high availability and redundant, hot-swappable power supply units.
· Introduces StorTrends iDATA IT Infrastructure Assessment Tool – a free
intelligent data analysis tracking application (iDATA) that provides a comprehensive
and accurate assessment of IT infrastructure statistics such as performance, capacity
and throughput requirements, in order to find and assess pain points, before they
become disruptive, as well as to enable IT professionals to proactively and accurately
plan for future IT investment/deployment.
· Launches StorTrends PROFIT Program – offering one of the highest protected
margins in the industry to allow channel partners to capitalize on the exploding demand
for cost-effective hybrid and/or full flash storage solutions.
Industry Lab Validations Speak to Power of StorTrends 3500i Storage Array:
Taneja Group Technology Validation – “We observed in
our hands-on Technology Validation of the StorTrends
3500i array that StorTrends has crafted SSD into a
mature, field-proven, and well-architected storage
system. With a comprehensive set of storage features
and an intriguingly flexible ability to integrate SSDs with
the StorTrends cache and tiering architecture, the 3500i
showed us that it is ready to deliver superb performance,
extreme versatility, and serious value for mid-range
storage customers,” said Taneja Group founder, Arun
Taneja when asked about the report. “The NetNet is there
is no need to look for alternatives to make solid state
more affordable and practical for the mainstream – with
the AMI StorTrends 3500i, it is clearly here.”

StorTrends 3500i Validated by StorageReview Enterprise Lab – during independent
testing the StorTrends 3500i storage array was deemed a “powerful and easy to deploy hybrid
storage platform built for high performance and maximum capacity” – demonstrating top-ofthe-class
performance in benchmark conducted against well-known Tier 1 storage vendors.
“The AMI StorTrends 3500i provides businesses with a powerful and easy to deploy 3U hybrid
storage platform built for high performance and maximum capacity. It didn't take long for the
StorTrends 3500i to demonstrate its top-class performance during our benchmarking. In the
first application test, which measured performance with VMmark, the StorTrends 3500i posted
excellent results. The StorTrends 3500i cluster was at or near the top of the pack, slipping
ever so slightly at the 10th tile. In the 15k and 30k virtual-user SQL Server benchmark, the
3500i was easily the best of the bunch especially when measuring the average latency. The
3500i recorded only 41ms latency during 30k virtual users benchmark where the second place
system posted 133ms; a significant gap in responsiveness. The StorTrends 3500i is able to
achieve all of these impressive numbers for a variety of reasons, one of the biggest being how
they handle flash. First off, the array offers both caching (a copy of the hot data on SSDs) and
tiering (a permanent location of hot data on SSDs), which is relatively rare among the hybrid
storage array vendors. Most provide one or the other, which certainly adds to top-line
performance, but as we see here, there can be a benefit to using both. AMI is also using
higher capacity SSDs for tiering, at 4x800GB in RAID10, 1.6TB usable in a 16-bay system is
well above what many competitive systems offer. The drives are also modern, many of the
large storage vendors are using SSD technology that's very stable but a few years older. The
only thing really working against the 3500i is lack of awareness in a crowded market; that
likely won't last long though as the 3500i really shines.”
StorTrends iDATA Named “Invaluable” Tool by SSG-NOW – for accurately assessing an
IT infrastructure in order to find and eliminate pain points, avoid business disruption and make
informed storage investment decisions.
Customers Speak Out on Value of StorTrends Flash Storage Appliances:
“We needed something that was going to perform at the level our SQL servers needed. The
specification certainly seemed to be there and pricewise StorTrends compared favorably
against other devices in its same class. We found that metrics such as IOPS, throughput,
capacity and replication - as well as the flexibility of being able to connect to multiple devices
of StorTrends products were higher than our current solution and in the range that we wanted
to be.”
RTI - Phil Blakely, Network and Systems Administrator
“I cannot stress enough how good the customer service is. The StorTrends team has done
nothing but accommodate our needs and bend over backwards for us. Everything has
performed as they described and I have never had the feeling of being over-promised or
under-delivered.”

Charlotte Radiology – Tony Maynard, Manager of Information Technology
“The StorTrends array had the specific capabilities we were looking for, the integration with
Hyper-V and a price tag that was much less than we anticipated.”
National Fish and Seafood - Andrew Marenghi, IT Director
“When I started here there were already two StorTrends appliances that had been here for
about four to five years. They ran flawlessly, untouched for about two more years. I didn’t
even have to reboot the boxes. I really paid very little attention to them. So, when it was time
to add storage for our video project – I was already looking in StorTrends’ direction.”
University of Western Ontario - Clint Bourdeau, Network Systems Specialist
“Indeed, 2014 was a stellar year for StorTrends. Driven by our number one asset – our
people, combined with the industry’s top storage solution – StorTrends, and relationships with
the channel’s superstars as the icing-on-top, we grew our customer base with companies
large and small, across virtually every industry vertical, around the world,” said Justin Bagby,
Director of StorTrends. “We look forward to this year, as we continue to hone our product
roadmap in order to innovate and deliver the features our customers require to accelerate
application performance, protect and ensure data availability, and decrease overall cost and
complexity.”
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About StorTrends
StorTrends® from American Megatrends (AMI) is Performance Storage with Proven Value.
StorTrends SAN and NAS storage appliances are installed worldwide and trusted by
companies and institutions in a wide range of industries including education, energy, finance,
state and local government, healthcare, manufacturing, marketing, retail, R&D and many
more. StorTrends meets the challenges and demands of today’s business environments by
offering a wide variety of solutions from all-flash storage, hybrid storage to spinning disk
solutions. StorTrends is backed by 1,300+ customer installations, 125+ storage patents and
nearly 30 Years of IT leadership from a company that millions of people trust on a daily basis,
American Megatrends, Inc. For further information, please visit: http://www.stortrends.com.
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