Solid-state SAN storage provider Kaminario has teamed up with Fusion-io, a company that sells flash-based storage acceleration solutions, to develop what it calls the Kaminario K2  storage, one of the industry’s first all solid-state SAN products.  The company promises that this new technology is built to optimize the performance of heavy business applications.

“The Kaminario K2 storage, architected from the ground up as an all solid-state, high performance, highly available shared SAN storage solution, meets the demand from enterprises looking to dramatically improve the performance of high I/O and latency sensitive applications.”

Fusion ioDrive Duo is integrated with the all solid-state SAN storage to boost performance, and the two storage vendors will work to “bring the Kaminario K2 family of products into joint customer environments.”

Traiana, a customer, is currently testing out the offering and has seen a great deal of improvement.  The post-trade platform operator saw a 150 percent increase in trading transactions and has reduced latency by 40 times when running its Oracle database in the deployment.

Fusion-io could play a big part in the success of Kaminario storage tech when it comes to performance, which is the main reason it has seen a lot of success and growth itself. Just yesterday the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) in Charleston, SC, reported an 800% performance boost compared to the RAID 5 tech it has been using before.  This update comes a couple of weeks after the company unveiled ioCache at VMworld 2011 –a combo of its hardware and ioTurbine software.

Software has always played a big role in Fusion-io’s strategy.  In a Wikibon post, analyst Dave Vellante elaborates on his take that Fusion’s edge over the rest of the market lies in the software powering its hardware, rather than just flash.