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Burlywood Extends Reach of TrueFlash Solution through OEM Partnership with Unigen
[August 14, 2018]

Burlywood Extends Reach of TrueFlash Solution through OEM Partnership with Unigen


Burlywood, an innovator of flash-based storage for cloud data centers, today announced that it has entered into an OEM agreement with Unigen Corporation, which will market and sell Burlywood's TrueFlash™ storage software solution to customers looking to accelerate their transition to an all-flash data center.

Customers depend on Unigen to consistently provide flash solutions with the best reliability, quality and performance. This deal represents an opportunity for Unigen to further address the rapidly expanding datacenter market by delivering TrueFlash's disruptive cost and performance benefits to customers deploying cloud storage solutions, all-flash arrays and hyper-converged solutions.

"For both new customers looking to transition to flash storage solutions and for those of our customers already utilizing our existing solutions for enterprise-class storage, the addition of Burlywood's modular flash storage architecture offers a way to rapidly integrate the latest flash-based technologies that can best meet their application needs," said Paul W. Heng, President & CEO of Unigen. "Our partnership with Burlywood ensures that customers will get the optimized performance and capacity they need with support throughout every stage of the sales cycle."

Burlywood's TrueFlash is optimized to customer applications, uses flash more efficiently and delivers improved performance in a more cost-effective manner than current SSDs. TrueFlash allows for the use of the latest flash technologywith better performance earlier in the lifecycle of flash nodes. Integrated multi-stream Quality of Service (QoS) provides advanced traffic management and consistent performance, tuning it to match the exact needs of customers' environments and workloads.



"Working with partners like Unigen allows us to rapidly expand our sales capabilities and reach to ensure that the greatest number of companies have the ability to optimize their datacenter with TrueFlash," said Tod Earhart, CEO of Burlywood. "Unigen's commitment to testing and validating the solutions that they OEM in addition to a customer base that dovetails nicely with the market segments we target make them an ideal partner to market and sell the TrueFlash storage architecture."

Organizations interested in implementing a TrueFlash-based solution through Unigen may contact Unigen sales at [email protected].


About Unigen

Unigen Corporation, founded in 1991, is an established global leader in the design and manufacture of original and custom flash storage and DRAM module solutions. Headquartered in Newark, California, the company operates state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the Silicon Valley Bay Area of California (ISO-9001/14001/13485 certified) and near Hanoi, Vietnam (ISO-9001/14001 certified). Unigen markets its products to OEMs worldwide in embedded, industrial, networking, server, telecommunications, imaging, automotive and medical devices industries. Unigen also offers best-in-class electronics manufacturing services (EMS), including new product introduction and volume production, supply chain management, assembly, test, and post-sales support. Learn more about Unigen's products and services at www.unigen.com.

About Burlywood

Powered by a highly productive, expert development team comprised of executives from companies such as HP, Western Digital, Hitachi (News - Alert), Micron and Intel, storage software startup Burlywood is accelerating the transition to the all-flash data center. The company's patented TrueFlash technology changes how storage works and is delivered by lowering flash costs, increasing storage density and increasing flash performance while shortening the time to market. The new flash storage paradigm is ideally suited for customers in the hyperscale, content delivery and cloud markets that want to move to all-flash environments but have found that current SSD offerings are a constraint. Find out more about how Burlywood is allowing flash to be used as it was intended at https://www.burlywoodtech.com.


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