Award-winning enterprise solid-state storage system on display as part of Hardware Alley exhibition
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyera Inc., founded by an executive and engineering team with unsurpassed backgrounds in the solid-state, storage and networking arenas, today announced that its Skyhawk enterprise solid-state storage system has been invited to be part of the Hardware Alley exhibition at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in the San Francisco Design Center Concourse September 12.
Skyera is among the "cool hardware startups" demonstrating their products to attendees at the latest Disrupt conference, a three-day event featuring startups, influential speakers and special guests. Hardware Alley features "a collection of hardware startups who are ready to amaze, delight and stupefy [attendees] with crazy hardware from around the world."
Skyera's enterprise solid-state storage system is based entirely on 19/20 nanometer consumer Multi Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash at a system price of less than $3 per gigabyte before compression and deduplication. The compact half-depth 1u form factor sports a staggering 44 terabytes of high performance, low latency native capacity for the most demanding Big Data, analytics and virtualization applications. It was designed from the ground up to incorporate the most innovative technology available to yield the 100 times life amplification required to achieve enterprise reliability and endurance requirements.
"We are excited for the opportunity to showcase Skyhawk publicly once again as part of Hardware Alley at this year's Disrupt SF conference," said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, Skyera CEO. "After successfully debuting Skyhawk last month at Flash Memory Summit, where it was awarded Best of Show for Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application, we are once again ready to demonstrate how our enterprise solid-state storage system is set to revolutionize mainstream storage by serving as a direct replacement for traditional hard disk drives while bringing unparalleled performance, speed and capacity to all applications at a reduced savings for power and floor space."
About Skyera
Skyera Inc. is an emerging provider of enterprise solid-state storage systems designed to enable a large class of applications with extraordinarily high performance, exceptionally lower power consumption and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise storage systems. Founded by the executives who previously developed the world's most-advanced flash memory controller, Skyera is backed by key technology and financial partnerships designed to position it at the forefront of the hyper growth in the solid state storage sector. The company was featured in the Gartner report "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2012" and was chosen by Flash Memory Summit as a Best of Show award winner for 2012 in the category of Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application. For more information about the company, visit skyera.com.