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Matrix to Resell Kaminario K2 High Performance Storage Solutions
[July 12, 2011]

Matrix to Resell Kaminario K2 High Performance Storage Solutions


NEWTON, Mass. --(Business Wire)--

Kaminario, a leading provider of high performance SSD storage, today announced a sales and marketing partnership with Matrix, a leading information technology services company in EMEA. Matrix will resell and implement Kaminario's K2 high performance SSD storage appliance to deliver fast, safe and easy storage solutions for enterprises to address the data access demands of their most critical applications.

Matrix operates in some of the largest IT projects in Israel with hundreds of enterprise customers in leading industrial, commercial, banking, financial, telecom, security, health, public and governmental organizations. Matrix's infrastructure division deliver storage solutions that must meet enterprises' expectations around performance, high availability, and ease of use in support of their most demanding applications. In offering the Kaminario K2 SSD storage appliance to its customers, Matrix answers the need for increasing application performance and reducing runtime while ensuring that data critical to the application is highly available. The Kaminario K2 also enables Matrix to offer its customers a unique storage solution that is easy to deploy and manage, helping them to reduce application costs and increase their ROI.

"Accelerating application runtime is a top priority for our customers. Their preference is to invest in hardware over changing the application, both from a cost and an assimilation point of view." said Udi Eylon, applicative infrastructure department manager, finance and technology division, Matrix. "Based on those needs and the available solution alternatives, we chose Kaminario as a unique solution for our clients. The Kaminario K2 high performance SSD storage system enables acceleration of the application by up to 25 times while offering high availability and easy installation and management."

Based on an innovative Scale-out Performance Storage Architecture (SPEAR), the Kaminario K2 uses off-the-shelf blade servers and SSD media to create a blazingly fast, highly available and easy-to-deploy distributed storage grid appliance. The Kaminrio K2 supports millions of IOPS, tens of GB/s of throughput and extremely low latency in order to accelerate application performance. The Kaminario K2 also supports N+1 redundancy, including dual UPS for data reliability and availability. The Kaminario K2 is the only SSD storage solution on the market today that delivers both enterprise-class performance and high availability within a single solution, without the cost and complexity of managing multiple storage systems.

"We are very pleased to have a highly respected IT solutions provider like Matrix join our growing partner network. Their clients are in industries where the Kaminario K2 will provide immediate, measurable business benefits," said Dani Golan, CEO, Kaminario. "We look forward to working with Matrix to help their customers overcome their application performance challenges."

The relationship with Matrix is another in a series of recent achievements for Kaminario including:


  • Dell (News - Alert) signed a reseller agreement with Kaminario to resell the K2
  • Named a "Cool Vendor in Storage" by the Gartner (News - Alert) Group.
  • Closed $15M in series C funding round.
  • Kaminario K2 storage appliance selected by Bank Leumi, the largest financial institution in Israel, to improve the performance of its critical banking applications.
  • Named by InfoStor as a "Top Ten Storage Startup."
  • Named a "5 to Watch" by Mass High Tech's "Start-up Watch"
  • Praised by numerous storage analyst groups including ESG, Taneja Group and the Kusnetzky Group for its innovative approach to high performance storage.

About Kaminario

Kaminario K2 high performance SSD storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks to accelerate critical business applications. Kaminario uses off-the-shelf blade servers and SSD media to create a blazingly fast, highly available and easy-to-deploy distributed storage grid appliance. Driven by Kaminario's innovative SPEAR, the K2 supports millions of IOPS, tens of GB/s of throughput and extremely low latency - all without compromising on high availability. The SPEAR Storage Operating System contains Automated Data Distribution™ and Intelligent Parallel I/O Processing™ that deliver record-breaking read and write performance, eliminating hot spots and bottlenecks automatically. Kaminario is a fundamentally new and better way to store and retrieve performance-sensitive data. Kaminario is simply faster.

Kaminario is located in Newton, Mass. To learn more, visit www.kaminario.com.

About Matrix

Matrix, which employs 4,550 IT professionals, is the leading information technology company in Israel. Matrix executes some of the largest integration projects in Israel. Matrix develops and markets software solutions and products, it provides infrastructure and consulting services, outsourcing agreements, offshore, training and deployment. It represents, and markets the world's leading software products. Among its customers matrix counts hundreds of the leading Israeli organizations and companies in the fields of industry, retail, banking and finances, telecom, defense, health, and the government/public sector.


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