Assurance Storage is one of the leading providers of storage software for high performance autonomic tiered storage for the likes of virtual environments, virtual desktops (VDI), cloud storage as well as business and scientific analytics. These are data-intensive applications and also include data warehousing and cloud architectures. They recently made an announcement stating that SmartTier software for Solid State Storage and PCIe NAND Flash devices is now generally available. This software has been highly awaited and brings with it some important advantages in intelligent, autonomic data cache and tier management that is used to improve performance of I/O intensive applications.

Clients that make use of SmartTier secure the advantages of aligning the value of data with the value of SSD and Flash. There are a number of performance based issues that can be enhanced for vital business applications of different kinds. These include precision as well as the speed in access for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) increasing. Data updates in real time are provided for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). These are meant for Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft (News - Alert) SQL and other such Database Management Systems. There is also Metadata Management meant for big content repositories. The software also provides Cache Management Engine for NAS / SAN storage.

With this software, Assurance brings about a cutting edge moldable architecture that handles data stores in a dynamic manner. The aim is to push application performance and remove any obstacles in making use of SSD and PCIe architectures for OLTP, database applications and storage cache management. A great degree of precision is added to data access since SmartTier uses independent intelligence frequency based algorithms to get the job done.

In a release, Steve Visconti, President and CEO at Assurance, said, “The Assurance SmartTier software provides the ability to utilize FLASH technologies in tera-scale for, fast access of the most frequently read data. With a solution this precise, automated and scalable offers for the first time the ability to design flexible storage architectures better utilizing new technologies such as PCIe NAND Flash and SSD as an effective Solid State Storage tier.” 

Assurance SmartTier is made use of with SSD or PCIe NAND Flash devices. These include Fusion-io (News - Alert) ioDrive II or Virident TachIOn. Mr. David Korba, CEO and Founder of CloudLogistix, “I am delighted with Assurance SmartTier software implementation which offers breakthroughs for large scale enterprise-class performance. With Assurance we can now overcome performance bottlenecks with precise real-time data refresh.”