Vexata Announces Reference Architecture For SAS Analytics

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 12, 2017 — Vexata (@VexataCorp), a leader in high performance data storage infrastructure for enterprise and cloud datacenters, announced today the availability of its industry-leading SAS analytics reference architecture based on the groundbreaking Vexata VX-100F Flash Storage System powered by VX-OS software. Based on independent testing conducted by the SAS Performance Validation team, this reference solution highlights how the Vexata VX-100F brings a transformative level of I/O performance at scale to accelerate SAS Grid analytics workloads.

“Digital business demands I/O performance at scale from analytics platforms,” said Zahid Hussain, CEO of Vexata. “We are excited to collaborate with SAS and offer a tested reference design that our mutual customers can deploy seamlessly into their existing SAS environments.”

“SAS analytics workloads are very I/O intensive and customers have to choose their storage carefully to meet these demanding requirements,” said Margaret Crevar, head of the SAS Performance Labs. “We are pleased to add the VX-100F to our tested storage matrix to provide our customers with more choice for their most data intensive analytics workloads.”

Click here for the SAS/Vexata analytics solution paper.

About Vexata

Vexata’s active data infrastructure solutions enable transformative performance at scale for the I/O intensive applications driving digital business. Based on its VX-OS software, Vexata solid state storage systems deploy simply and seamlessly into enterprise and cloud data center environments. For more information visit vexata.com or follow us @VexataCorp.

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Source: Vexata