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June 25, 2014

Skyera's SkyHawk All-flash Solid-State Storage System Gets VMware Ready Status

Skyera Inc. has announced that the company’s skyHawk all-flash solid-state storage system has won VMware Ready status.

This indicates that Skyera has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog. Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that skyHawk all-flash solid-state storage system makes best use of VMware technology and is ready for deployment in customer environments.

Skyera solid-state storage architecture is backed by the most advanced NAND flash, providing the highest density, lowest power consumption and flash optimized enterprise software features – all within the industry's smallest footprint.

Radoslav Danilak, Co-Founder and CEO of Skyera said that by using skyHawk with vSphere 5.5 and 5.5 U1 enterprises can achieve much higher virtual-machine density than traditional storage for both server virtualization and VDI infrastructure.

"With our capacity leading flash hardware and software, Skyera delivers a simple and extremely scalable solution for VMware environments that offers enterprise-class performance and reliability for the cost of disk," Danilak added.

VMware Ready signifies VMware’s highest level of endorsement for products created by the company’s partners. The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program.

With more than 1,600 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

"We are pleased that Skyera's skyHawk qualifies for the VMware Ready logo, signifying to customers that it works effectively with VMware vSphere, and can be deployed in production with confidence," said Sanjay Katyal, vice president, Global Alliances & OEMs, VMware.

Skyera specializes in developing a uniquely scalable enterprise solid-state storage solution that eliminates storage performance bottlenecks allowing IT departments to virtualize even their organization’s most demanding applications.



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