Kaminario, a leading provider of high performance, general purpose all solid-state (SSD) SAN storage solutions, today announced it is now an Elite member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. Elite members of the TAP program collaborate with VMware to integrate and validate their products with VMware solutions to drive transformative business outcomes for customers.

“We welcome Kaminario as an Elite member of the VMware TAP program,” said Sheryl Sage, director, Alliance Programs, VMware. “VMware and our Elite partners are driving the convergence of cloud infrastructure and virtualization for our customers, enabling greater efficiencies and reliability. Through the TAP program, companies like Kaminario can extend the benefits of VMware cloud infrastructure to fuel transformation within customer environments.”

“Our VMware TAP program Elite membership will translate into benefits for our customers with virtualized environments,” said Ritu Jyoti, VP of Product and Solutions Management, Kaminario. ”Customers will be able to achieve enhanced performance with critical business applications running on VMware vSphere, while also ensuring high availability and fast, high-volume data protection.”

The VMware Solution Exchange (VSX) is an online virtualization and cloud infrastructure marketplace that provides customers with a single point of entry to discover, evaluate and rate business solutions.

Kaminario product information, collateral and other assets are listed within the online VMware Solution Exchange at https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/kaminario-k2-solid-state-san.

With thousands of members worldwide, the VMware TAP program includes best-of-breed technology partners with the shared commitment to bring the best expertise and business solutions for each unique customer environment.

About Kaminario

Founded by storage experts from EMC, NetApp and IBM, Kaminario is leading the Flash SSD revolution in 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 with a smaller footprint than legacy SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 is the first enterprise-grade SAN storage with a true scale-out architecture built from the ground up to take full advantage of modern Flash SSD performance. With built-in, self-healing high availability and data protection, the K2 consistently delivers ultralow latency, tens of GB/s of throughput and millions of IOPS. Kaminario is simply faster.

For more information, visit www.kaminario.com.

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