24ee OCZ Enterprise - News RSS Feed OCZ Enterprise - News RSS Feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:31:14 -0700 http://www.oczenterprise.com/images/ocz-enterprise.png OCZ Enterprise http://www.oczenterprise.com/ en-us http://www.oczenterprise.com/rss/ OCZ Technology Launches New VXL 1.3 Software at CeBIT 2013 Evolving Solid State Virtualization and Caching to New Levels Virtualization Solution Delivers an Automatic Cache Warmup Scheduler and Data Mirroring Enhancements that Enable SANless Virtualized Services HANNOVER GermanyCeBIT 2013March 5 2013OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems today announced the general availability of the next release of its popular VXL Cache and Virtualization Software. VXL 1.3 has evolved its synchronous data mirroring capabilities and automatic server failover mechanisms to enable SANless highly available fault tolerant environments based entirely on virtualized host flash. The ability to provide uninterrupted service for businesscritical applications even during severe system failures is a requirement for IT managers of any sized data center and ideally suited for virtualized database deployments email servers or cloud computing applications. Another innovation in this new version of VXL allows IT managers to preload the cache with critical data at predetermined schedules to ensure that important data is available on SSD flash at the precise time it is required by the application. This advancement is particularly well suited for business intelligence and data analysis applications and in particular for columnar database deployments where the periodic collection of data to a distributed flash cache enables realtime online analysis. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI applications benefit as well with the ability to alleviate boot storms or expected peak usage at specific times. We have been deploying OCZs VXL Software with OCZ ZDrives to enterprise data centers since their very first version and have seen IT administrators resolve an expanding range of data access requirements with this solution said Alexander [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-launches-new-vxl-1-3-software-at-cebit-2013-evolving-solid-state-virtualization-and-caching-to-new-levels.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-launches-new-vxl-1-3-software-at-cebit-2013-evolving-solid-state-virtualization-and-caching-to-new-levels.html OCZ Technology to Showcase NextGeneration Enterprise Storage Solutions at CeBIT 2013 OCZ to Unveil Upcoming ZDXL Accelerator Optimized for SQL Server Database Applications SAN JOSE CAFebruary 25 2013OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems today announced that it will preview a variety of enterprise storage solutions at next weeks CeBIT 2013 conference in Hannover Germany. As a renowned global forum CeBIT represents a great opportunity for attendees to be the first to see and experience the latest innovations in solidstate storage from an industry leader in enterprise SSDs virtualization and caching software. OCZ offers a complete suite of storage solutions that address VMware Linux and SQL Server platforms and invites IT decisionmakers who are evaluating or implementing solidstate storage in the data center to visit the Companys exhibit in Hall 2 Stand E43 from March 5th through 9th. OCZ will unveil the nextgeneration ZDXL SQL Accelerator a culmination of enterprise hardware and software converging as one tightly integrated and optimized solution. The ZDXL Accelerator addresses SQL Server database applications to not only ensure that the data for this implementation is right relevant and readily available on SSD flash when the SQL Server needs it but also that the data is accessed with the highest possible IO performance. For simple deployment and ease of use this tightly integrated optimized solution features implementation wizards to guide DBAs so they can optimally manage data cached to the flash. While showcasing the ZDXL solution OCZ will invite enterprise customers to become beta testers for this exciting solution. Also included in OCZs exhibition at CeBIT will be demonstrations to preview the upcoming VXL 1.3 Virtualization Software and LXL Acceleration [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-to-showcase-next-generation-enterprise-storage-solutions-at-cebit-2013.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-to-showcase-next-generation-enterprise-storage-solutions-at-cebit-2013.html OCZ Technology Announces Wayne B. Eisenberg as Senior Vice President of Global Sales Senior Sales Executive Brings SolidState Storage and EnterpriseOEM Sales Expertise to OCZ SAN JOSE CA January 23 2013 OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems today announced the appointment of Wayne B. Eisenberg as Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Eisenberg joins OCZ with over 20 years in sales management and a proven track record for growing corporate revenue and successfully transforming global businesses. He spent 16 years at SMART Modular Technologies a developer of memory and solidstate storage subsystems where he held various sales management positions including 9 years as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing Communications. We are very excited that Wayne has joined our team as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and believe that his drive integrity and knowledge of solidstate storage will provide immediate benefits to our Company said Ralph Schmitt CEO of OCZ Technology. As our Company continues to evolve having this level of executive talent and proven track record for success will help us achieve the sales goals that we seek during this next phase of OCZs growth. Prior to joining OCZ Eisenberg served as Vice President of Sales for Leyden Energy Inc a developer of Lithiumionbased energy storage solutions. Prior to his employment with SMART Modular Eisenberg was an Area Sales Manager in the Computer Systems Division at Toshiba America selling portable computing products for the enterprise where he doubled business growth in this area. He also served as a District Manager for GRID Systems selling industrial portable computing solutions. Joining OCZ is a great opportunity for me as the Company is highly regarded for its extensive SSD portfolio [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-announces-wayne-b-eisenberg-as-senior-vice-president-of-global-sales.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-announces-wayne-b-eisenberg-as-senior-vice-president-of-global-sales.html OCZ to Unveil PCIeBased Vector SSD Series at CES 2013 Innovative Barefoot 3 Controller Extends the Vector SSD Series to PCIe Interfaces and Delivers Enhanced Bandwidth and Expanded Densities for Enthusiast and Workstation Applications LAS VEGAS NV. CES 2013 January 7 2013 OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems today announced that it will demonstrate a preproduction version of its new flagship Vector SSD Series for PCI Express PCIe interfaces at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show CES 2013 Venetian Hotel Las Vegas Nevada from January 8th through 11th. In addition to showcasing the PCIebased Vector Series OCZ will also present its portfolio of enterprise and consumer SSDs as well as enterprise software used to cache virtualize or accelerate key applications and associated data. Driven by its cuttingedge Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller which has received worldwide accolades for industryleading performance enhanced reliabilityendurance and differentiated features the PCIebased Vector SSD Series has improved inputoutput operations per second IOPS burst performance and consistently delivers superior realworld sustained performance regardless of whether the data streams are in compressed or uncompressed formats. Residing directly on the PCIe bus this new addition to the Vector Series provides lower latency to data faster file transfers and bootups expanded storage capacities and an even quicker more responsive experience over the already blazing fast SATA IIIbased Vector SSDs. The combination of enhanced bandwidth and higher capacities make the Vector PCIe SSD Series ideal for power users content creation and workstation applications. The Vector PCIe SSD Series supports highperformance Windowsbased laptops desktops and workstations [...] 22d5 http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-to-unveil-pcie-based-vector-ssd-series-at-ces-2013.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-to-unveil-pcie-based-vector-ssd-series-at-ces-2013.html OCZ Technology Announces Beta Program for New LinuxBased Caching Solution Invitation to Participate in Beta Testing for OCZs Upcoming LXL Software Release SAN JOSE CA December 17 2012 OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems today announced that it has initiated a beta test program for its Linux Acceleration LXL Software development and invites its enterprise SSD customers to participate. The new OCZ LXL Software is a fast caching storage solution for OCZs portfolio of enterprise SSDs and designed specifically for Linuxbased physical and virtual environments. OCZs unique LXL Software provides a new integrated approach for making applicationoptimized data cache selections while minimizing IO access times to SSD flash. It achieves this type of dynamic cache selection optimization by splitting the caching policy engine between the core mechanism running in the Linux kernel and an advanced statistical outofband analysis module that optimally determines which data needs to be placed in the cache and stores the data locally in OCZ enterpriseSSDs. The LXL software supports a wide range of OCZ enterprise solid state solutions across multiple interfaces i.e. ZDrive R4 PCIe Series the Talos 2 SAS Series and the Deneva 2 SATA Series. By enabling intelligent direct pass caching all data requests to and from the SAN are streamlined reducing external traffic by up to 90 percent as outofband communication with the data path provides very high selection efficiencies and ultralow latency said Dr. Allon Cohen Vice President of Software and Solutions for OCZ Technology. This innovative LXL architecture avoids the datapath processing penalties typically associated with selectively caching data and enables tighter integration of the data path from application [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-announces-beta-program-for-new-linux-based-caching-solution.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-announces-beta-program-for-new-linux-based-caching-solution.html OCZ Technology Delivers The Next Frontier of Solid State Virtualization with VXL 1.2 Software The Virtualization Vision of the Future with Flash Caching Distributed Resource Sharing and Advanced High AvailabilityFault Tolerance Services are Available Today from OCZ SAN JOSE CAOctober 23 2012OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems today announced the general availability of the next release of its popular VXL cache and virtualization software Version 1.2 enabling hostbased distributed flash volumes with advanced services that include High Availability HA and Fault Tolerance FT. This release of VXL software delivers the next frontier of flash virtualization by providing a comprehensive solution that features enterprise caching support for virtualized services and distributed flash volumes that dynamically share its SSD resources amongst any virtual machine VM that resides on the local server or on other servers in the virtualized environment. The OCZ VXL software works in conjunction with the Companys ZDrive R4 PCIe SSDs to provide a combined virtualization solution that enables efficient ondemand distribution of flash maximizing application performance. The transparent distribution of all unallocated flash as a dynamic cache resource assures that the flash is optimally utilized at all times regardless of how many VMs are running concurrently. As an added benefit VXL software does not require guest agents or special drivers within the application VM and the solution works with any operating system supported by a virtualization hypervisor. With new capabilities pioneered by OCZ this latest Version 1.2 release of VXL enables ZDrive R4 PCIe SSD flash volumes to be virtualized so the software can perform such advanced services as HA and endtoend FT from within the [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-delivers-the-next-frontier-of-solid-state-virtualization-with-vxl-1-2-software.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-delivers-the-next-frontier-of-solid-state-virtualization-with-vxl-1-2-software.html OCZ Technology to Display Enterprise Storage Solutions at Gartners SymposiumITXpo 2012 Advanced SolidState Drives Covering PCIe SATA III and SAS Interfaces and New VXL Cache Virtualization Software Capabilities Featured in Booth 1044 Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort SAN JOSE CAOctober 18 2012OCZ Technology Group Inc. NASDAQ OCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems will display its enterprise storage solutions at the Gartner SymposiumITXpo Booth 1044 Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort Lake Buena Vista Florida from October 21st through October 25th. The Gartner SymposiumITXpo is an annual gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives seeking the latest tools technologies and information to improve IT capabilities and data center effectiveness. For SAN acceleration of IO intensive workloads OCZ will present its leading ZDrive R4 PCIe SSDs supporting both fullheight FH and halfheight HH configurations enabling the CPU with direct access zerolatency storage and instant boot capabilities. The FH 34 length RM88 model enables an industry best 2.8GBs of sequential throughput 410K of random IOPS performance and usable MLC NAND flash capacities from 800GB to 3.2TB. The HH halflength RM84 model is also a performance leader enabling 2GBs of sequential throughput 250K of random IOPS performance and usable capacities from 300GB to 1.2TB. To enable the ZDrive R4 PCIe SSD series with fast caching and virtualization OCZ will present its feature rich VXL software. The VXLZDrive R4 PCIe SSD combined solution distributes flash caching resources ondemand across virtual machines VMs to maximize application performance and does this based on need making sure that no VM inefficiently occupies flash when it can better used elsewhere in the environment. This ensures that the flash cache is optimally utilized at all times [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-to-display-enterprise-storage-solutions-at-gartner-s-symposium-itxpo-2012.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-to-display-enterprise-storage-solutions-at-gartner-s-symposium-itxpo-2012.html OCZ Technology Appoints Ralph Schmitt as President and CEO SAN JOSE CA October 10 2012 OCZ Technology Group Inc. Nasdaq OCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems today announced its board of directors has appointed Ralph Schmitt as the Companys president and chief executive officer effective immediately. Ralph Schmitt has been a member of the Companys board of directors since April 2011. I am pleased to announce that OCZs board has appointed Ralph Schmitt as the Companys president and chief executive officer said Adam Epstein OCZs lead independent director. Ralphs knowledge of OCZs business customers and target markets along with his extensive management experience and technical expertise make him the ideal person to lead OCZ through the next phase of its development. Commenting on his appointment Mr. Schmitt stated I am excited and honored to have been asked to lead OCZ and look forward to working with the Companys talented dedicated employees to deliver leading solid state solutions. Innovation quality and profitability will be the principles that drive the Company going forward. We will overcome some near term tactical challenges and we will focus relentlessly on increased value to both our investors and customers. We have an amazing opportunity in front of us and we will take full advantage of our position products and people to be successful. Mr. Schmitt joins OCZ from PLX Technologies Inc. a provider of semiconductorbased connectivity solutions primarily targeting the enterprise and consumer markets where he served as president and CEO from 2008 until yesterday. Mr. Schmitt is the on the board of the Global Semiconductor Alliance GSA and remains on the board of PLX. Prior to his leadership tenure at PLX he acted as CEO of Legend Silicon a privately funded [...] 239e http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-appoints-ralph-schmitt-as-president-and-ceo.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-appoints-ralph-schmitt-as-president-and-ceo.html OCZ Technology to Showcase Solid State Virtualization Solutions at VMworld Barcelona 2012 Exhibit B414 Fira Barcelona Gran Via North Entrance October 911 SAN JOSE CAOctober 2 2012OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems will showcase its enterprise solid state virtualization solutions at this years VMworld Barcelona 2012 Exhibit B414 located at the Fira Barcelona Gran Via North Entrance Barcelona Spain from October 9th through October 11th. Featured solutions include OCZs fourth generation ZDrive R4 PCI Express PCIe SSD and VXL cache and virtualization software that delivers industryleading flash data caching into VMware virtualized server platforms. This VMware Ready solution distributes flash caching resources ondemand across virtual machines VMs to maximize performance and distributes the flash between VMs based on need making sure that no VM inefficiently occupies flash when it can be better used elsewhere in the environment. The end result is optimal utilization of flash cache regardless of how many VMs are running concurrently. One of the key differential advantages of OCZ solidstate virtualization is its unique ability to support endtoend VMware Fault Tolerance FT without the need for a backend storage area network SAN. For this High Availability HA SANless data center scenario flash data is synchronously replicated by VXL software between ZDrive R4 PCIe SSD cards residing on redundant cluster servers assuring that hostbased flash is treated as a continuously available storage resource across VMware clusters. This approach yields no data loss and no VM downtime even during complete server failures. Join OCZ Technology at VMworld Barcelona 2012 Exhibit B414 to see the latest solidstate solutions designed for VMware virtualization customers. About [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-to-showcase-solid-state-virtualization-solutions-at-vmworld-barcelona-2012.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-to-showcase-solid-state-virtualization-solutions-at-vmworld-barcelona-2012.html OCZs Complete Line of EnterpriseClass 2.5inch SATA III Deneva 2 SolidState Drives Now Compatible with QNAP Turbo NAS Products Deneva 2 Represents the Third Successful Certification of OCZ SATA III SSDs into the QNAP Turbo NAS Platform SAN JOSE Calif. August 28 2012 OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems today announced that its 2.5inch SATA III Deneva 2 SSD series supporting multilevel cell MLC synchronous and asynchronous NAND formats are now compatible with QNAP Systems Inc.s Turbo NAS products. The addition of Deneva 2 SSDs into QNAPs Turbo NAS peripherals compatibility list represents the first successful enterprise certification of OCZ SSDs into this platform and the third successful certification of OCZ SATA III SSDs joining OCZ Vertex 3 and Agility 3 SSDs on the list. With the industrys fastest transactional performance for SATA IIIbased drives Deneva 2 SSDs deliver up to 80000 inputoutput operations per second IOPS performance random 4K writes and a maximum bandwidth of 550 MBs. They also support bestinclass enterprise endurance and reliability featuring power loss data protection minimal write amplification intelligent block management and wearleveling security encryption and advanced error correction. QNAP is delighted to announce that the capacities from the product lineup including 60GB 120GB 240GB and 480GB have been verified to be compatible with the Turbo NAS series said Edward Lin Marketing Director of QNAP. QNAP Turbo NAS products provide highperformance reliable storage designed as affordable and easytomanage solutions for virtualized and clustered environments said Alex Mei Chief Marketing Officer of OCZ Technology. With the certification of our complete line of Deneva 2 SSDs into the QNAP Turbo NAS product platforms users will experience greater virtualization efficiencies [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-s-complete-line-of-enterprise-class-2-5-inch-sata-iii-deneva-2-solid-state-drives-now-compatible-with-qnap-turbo-nas-products.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-s-complete-line-of-enterprise-class-2-5-inch-sata-iii-deneva-2-solid-state-drives-now-compatible-with-qnap-turbo-nas-products.html OCZ Technology Delivers Solid State Virtualization Solutions at VMworld 2012 See Demonstrations of OCZs Advanced PCIe Solid State Drives and VXL Virtualization Software Unleashing the Power of Flash Acceleration to VMware Virtualized Servers in Booth 507 SAN JOSE CAAugust 24 2012OCZ Technology Group Inc. NasdaqOCZ a leading provider of highperformance solidstate drives SSDs for computing devices and systems will showcase its enterprise solid state virtualization solutions at this years VMworld 2012 located at the Moscone Center San Francisco California from August 26th through August 30th. Focal to these demonstrations is OCZs fourth generation ZDrive R4 PCI Express PCIe SSD and its VXL cache and virtualization software that delivers industryleading flash data caching into VMware virtualized server platforms. OCZs VMware Ready virtualization solution distributes flash caching resources ondemand across virtual machines VMs to maximize performance and distributes the flash between VMs based on need making sure that no VM inefficiently occupies flash when it can be better used elsewhere in the environment. This ensures the flash cache is optimally utilized at all times regardless of how many VMs are running concurrently. As an added benefit VXL software does not require guest agents or special drivers within the application VM and through hypervisor connectivity with VMware ESXi works with any operating system supported by this platform. OCZ will demonstrate how the flash cache can be shared dynamically by any VM residing on the local server or on other servers in the virtualized cluster significantly improving data access and server application performance while reducing data center total cost of ownership TCO. As a worlds first OCZ will showcase VXLs unique capabilities as the only flashbased virtualization software to support endtoend [...] http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-delivers-solid-state-virtualization-solutions-at-vmworld-2012.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/ocz-technology-delivers-solid-state-virtualization-solutions-at-vmworld-2012.html Avnet Embedded Expands Its Storage Strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean with SolidState Drives from OCZ Technology MIAMI SAN JOSE August 27th 2012 Avnet Embedded a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas a business region of Avnet Inc. NYSE AVT announced today an expanded distribution agreement with OCZ Technology Group Inc. Nasdaq OCZ to include the Latin American and Caribbean markets. Avnet now distributes OCZ solid state drive SSD products in the Americas Europe the Middle East and Africa. With established operations in Latin America Avnet has the opportunity to offer highperformance enterprise and consumergrade SSD products in this growing market. To quickly introduce and help drive adoption of OCZs product portfolio to the Latin American and the Caribbean regions Avnet will offer expert presales and technical support combined with logistics services innovative marketing programs and financing options. For more information about SSD products from OCZ Technology visit Avnets website. The addition of OCZs leading enterprise and consumer portfolio expands our storage strategy in a region that is on the verge of significant growth said Jose Luis Vara area director of Avnet Embedded Latin America. We are pleased to partner with OCZ as its key strategic SSD distributor in the region in response to customer demand for faster more efficient storage solutions. OCZ was one of the first major providers of solid state drives that brought enterpriseclass solutions to consumer markets and helped to spark the mainstream adoption of SSDs over traditional hard drives. With the addition of OCZs portfolio Avnet Latin American customers will have access to OCZs comprehensive lineup of innovative enterprise SSD products that include ZDrive R4 PCIe SSDs Deneva 2 SATAIIIbased SSDs Talos 2 SASbased SSDs VXL cache and virtualization software and unique clientworkstation products such [...] 19d http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/avnet-embedded-expands-its-storage-strategy-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-with-solid-state-drives-from-ocz-technology.html http://www.oczenterprise.com/news/avnet-embedded-expands-its-storage-strategy-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-with-solid-state-drives-from-ocz-technology.html 0