According to John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager for Enterprise Storage Solutions at SanDisk, "The demand of transaction-oriented applications puts tremendous strain on cloud service provider customers to architect data center platforms capable of delivering high performance, while keeping infrastructure costs in check. As a trusted provider of flash storage solutions, SanDisk understands the critical need for cloud elasticity in order to raise customer service levels. With CloudSpeed UItra Gen.II, CSP and SDS companies can provide an exceptional customer experience, while reducing administrative overhead along with the number of servers and software licenses needed to support transaction and analytical databases." Historically, CSPs have combined HDDs with caching mechanisms to handle transactions and I/O-intensive usage scenarios.