Marvell bags enterprise product of the year 2012 award

Marvell DragonFly NVRAM SSD accelerator has been named a silver winner in the Enterprise Product of the Year category by the Best in Biz Awards. DragonFly is an intelligent NVRAM SSD accelerator with a low-latency write-back cache running embedded software in a PCIe adapter form factor. It has been designed to remove the complexity associated with high-performance caching. It consists of DragonFly NVRAM and NVCACHE tools.      

Alan Armstrong, VP, marketing, Storage Business Group, Marvell Semiconductor said, “Marvell is extremely honored to have received this mark of distinction from the Best in Biz panel of judges. So far DragonFly has been incredibly well-received in the marketplace and recognition from Best in Biz further validates the platform’s status as one of the world’s preeminent enabling technology for the next generation of large scale public and private data centers. By solving the growing storage I/O and latency bottlenecks that currently plague the cloud storage landscape, DragonFly has emerged as one of the most viable PCIe storage acceleration adapters for enterprise storage and server OEMs.”

Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director, Validation Services, Taneja Group said, “DragonFly addresses a critical problem in the enterprise datacenter, which is overwhelming demand for storage performance, I/O and the ability to scale beyond the capabilities of a centralized array. Our testing of the product revealed significant advantages regarding DragonFly’s easy plug-and-play fit into existing storage infrastructures – along with performance such as 10x virtual machine scalability that goes beyond the limits of the array without sacrificing consolidated data storage and management. Deploying DragonFly cards in an enterprise data center will have far reaching financial benefits, including greater VM density, a reduced number of physical servers and reduced operating costs. All things considered, DragonFly makes a desirable impact on cost per I/O with minimal initial deployment risk.”

The Biz Awards 2012 honours were presented in more than 50 categories from across 400 entries from a wide array of public and private companies from US and Canada. The winners were determined by an independent panel of 32 judges from top-tier news, business and technology publications, as well as broadcast outlets and analyst firms.