SUNNYVALE, Calif.-January 30,
2012-GridIron® Systems, a pioneer in Big Data
acceleration, today announced its membership in the
NetApp Alliance Partner Program. GridIron is collaborating with
NetApp to integrate its TurboCharger™ SAN acceleration
appliance into NetApp unified storage environments. This
collaboration will enable customers to increase application
performance and support more concurrent users and applications
without disrupting operations, while preserving limited budget
dollars. Customers can analyze extremely large, data-intensive
workloads with boundless and secure storage for better
decision-making and business advantage.
The GridIron TurboCharger is a SAN-attached
appliance that provides a high-performance, transparent access
layer between servers and storage to significantly boost the
performance of applications and databases with no changes to
existing servers, storage, applications or processes. By bridging
the I/O gap between servers and storage, the TurboCharger delivers
solid-state performance from existing storage and satisfies the
concurrent bandwidth and IOPS requirements of demanding
applications. By combining TurboCharger with NetApp unified storage
systems, customers can leverage their current multi-protocol,
multi-vendor storage investments by improving performance and
simplifying the management of multi-vendor disk arrays to obtain
advanced storage efficiency, data protection, and data management
features.
"IT organizations are struggling to meet the
storage challenges of rapidly changing workloads, large active
datasets, increasing number of concurrent users and applications,"
said Prasad Pammidimukkala, Vice President of Marketing at GridIron
Systems. "Storage solutions must be flexible and adaptive because
customers can no longer afford the cost, complexity or downtime
associated with forklift upgrades. Both NetApp and GridIron deliver
solutions that enhance storage without disruption to operations. In
fact TurboCharger is the only solution that speeds up access to big
data with zero changes to server, storage, application software or
operational practices."
High Moon Studios uses NetApp FAS3270 system
in conjunction with GridIron Systems' TurboCharger in its
virtualized, shared storage infrastructure. The company, which is
part of Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI), makes action-packed
games such as the upcoming Transformers™: Fall of
Cybertron, due out in fall 2012. "We have been able
to reduce our software build times by up to nine times and remain
very competitive thanks to our storage efficiency," said Dan
Mulkiewicz, Director of IT at High Moon Studios. "TurboCharger
really is a plug and play solution that works seamlessly alongside
NetApp. We have improved all of our performance metrics
dramatically and avoided spending hundreds of thousands of dollars
in unnecessary upgrades."
About the NetApp Alliance Partner
Program
The NetApp Alliance Partner Program provides qualified
infrastructure and application providers with access to NetApp
solutions, software development kits, technical support, training,
certification, product information, and marketing and sales
assistance. Customers benefit by having access to best-of-breed
partner solutions that are tested to work with NetApp storage.
Additional information on the NetApp Alliance Partner Program is
available at www.netapp.com/alliances.
About GridIron Systems
GridIron Systems is a Big Data Acceleration company based in
Sunnyvale, California. Formed by a team of networking, storage and
SAN innovators, it has focused on bringing the benefits of new
technologies like solid state disk to improve data center
performance and costs with the LEAST amount of operational
disruption. GridIron has 24 patents pending in areas related to big
data storage, access-behavior analysis and management. GridIron
offers the most comprehensive solutions to speed up multi-terabyte
databases including clustered and virtualized environments at a
fraction of the cost of alternatives. Additional information is
available at www.GridIronsystems.com.
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Press Contact:
GridIron Systems, Inc.
Agnes Lamont, Marketingsage
Ph: (925) 426-0488 X112
E-Mail: GridIron-pr@marketingsage.net
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