Kaminario Named as Finalist for Storage Networking Product of the Year in the SVC Awards 2011

The SVC 2011 Awards Recognize Vendors and End-Users for Achievements in Storage, Virtualization and Cloud Computing

NEWTON, Mass., Nov 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kaminario, a leading provider of high performance all solid-state Flash and DRAM SAN storage solutions, today announced the company was named as a finalist for "Storage Networking Product of the Year" in the SVC Awards for achievements in storage, virtualization and cloud computing. The award winners will be announced on December 7, 2011 at a gala event at No. 4 Hamilton Place, London, UK.

"It is an honor for our young company to receive this recognition along with many long-established industry leaders," said Dani Golan, CEO of Kaminario. "We have strived to deliver a high performance, reliable and cost-effective solid-state storage solution that will lead the storage revolution. This recognition of our K2 all solid-state SAN storage system is a well-timed reward."

The SVC Awards recognize vendors, channel partners and end-users for products, projects and services in the storage, virtualization and cloud computing industries. The SVC Awards are bestowed in nine categories in which IT companies submit entries for nomination. A judging panel of respected editors and analysts validate the entries and select the SVC Awards Finalists. IT industry professionals are asked to cast votes for the award recipients online at http://svcawards.com/finalists . The voting ends November 28, 2011.

The SVC Awards 2011 are sponsored by Angel Business Communications Ltd, publishers of Storage Networking Solutions UK (SNS UK) and SNS Europe.

About Kaminario

Founded by storage experts from EMC, NetApp and IBM, Kaminario is leading SSD revolution in high performance SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 family of all solid-state SAN storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency to accelerate critical business applications at a significantly lower cost and smaller footprint than legacy SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 is the first enterprise grade SAN storage built from the ground up to take full advantage of modern Flash and DRAM SSD performance. With built in self-healing high availability, a modular scale-out architecture, open X86 components and media freedom of choice, the K2 consistently delivers ultra-low latency, tens of GB/s of throughput, and millions of IOPS. Kaminario is a fundamentally new and better way to store and retrieve performance sensitive data. Kaminario is simply faster.

Located in Newton, Mass., Kaminario has built a global network of business partners, including Dell Inc., which resells the K2 all solid-state SAN storage. For more information, visit www.kaminario.com .