Strengthening its Data Center Portfolio, Company's New Dual-Port, Performance Ultrastar® DC SN840 NVMe SSD, OpenFlexS Data24 NVMe-oF Platform and RapidFlexS Controllers Extend the Value of NVMe to Data Fabrics for Shared Disaggregated Storage
News highlights:
New dual-port, performance Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSD is the company's third-generation solution designed to accelerate cloud compute, servers running mission-critical workloads, and high-availability external storage solutions.
New OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform extends the performance of Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSDs across a low-latency Ethernet data fabric, providing the flexibility for hyperscale, OEM and enterprise IT customers to more effectively scale-up capacity and share disaggregated Flash storage resources.
RapidFlex controllers incorporated in OpenFlex Data24 provide seamless NVMe/NVMe-oF connectivity with outstanding performance and extreme power efficiency. First
Vertically integrated NVMe SSDs and storage enclosures enable data infrastructure leaders to transition from SAS or SATA to NVMe for highly efficient, scalable and low-latency infrastructure to power applications and workloads requiring superior read/write performance and availability.
In today's global digital economy, microseconds count. As hyperscale cloud and enterprise data centers constantly work to remove bottlenecks to ensure uncompromised performance and availability of essential applications, while also keeping pace with unprecedented data growth, customer adoption of NVMe and NVMe-oF solutions continues to accelerate. Industry analyst firm IDC expects hyperscalers, OEMs and end-user IT organizations to continue to transition away from legacy SATA and SAS interfaces, with NVMe on track to reach more than 55 percent of total enterprise SSD units shipped in 2020 and grow at a 2018-2023 CAGR of 38 percent¹.
'The future of Flash is undoubtedly NVMe as it's all about speed, efficiency, capacity and cost-effective scalability, and NVMe-oF takes it to the next level,' said
Ultrastar DC SN840 Data Center NVMe SSD
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'Being the leader in high performance storage for AI and big data, DDN needs to stay at the leading edge of storage technologies,' said
OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform
While NVMe Flash-based storage provides enormous performance gains for DAS, SAN and NAS, traditional data center infrastructure can limit the full potential of NVMe SSDs, resulting in underutilization of valuable storage resources, inefficient data silos and costly operational expenses. OpenFlex Data24 helps address these challenges by enabling the full bandwidth of Ultrastar NVMe SSDs to be shared by multiple hosts over a low-latency Ethernet fabric as if they were locally attached to the PCIe bus inside x86 servers. This provides greater flexibility for data center operators to scale-up capacity and more efficiently utilize disaggregated Flash storage to achieve greater performance for the most demanding workloads.
Launching with up to 24 hot-swappable Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSDs, OpenFlex Data24 provides shared storage capacity of up to 368TB in a compact 2U form factor, making it ideal for server storage expansion and scale-out software-defined storage (SDS) environments. The holistic design also incorporates newly branded RapidFlex RDMA-enabled NVMe-oF controllers for unsurpassed network connectivity and extreme low power, allowing up to six hosts to be directly attached with 100Gb Ethernet without the need for an external switch. RapidFlex controllers provide sub-500 nanosecond latency for projected platform performance topping 13M IOPS/70GB/s when adding up to six network adapters to the OpenFlex Data24.
Built for high availability and enterprise-class reliability, the OpenFlex Data24 can be attached as shared storage in high-performance infrastructure deployments or utilized as a disaggregated resource to compose virtual storage systems. The platform is fully interoperable with the award-winning OpenFlex F-series - the only open composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) solution in the world.
'Data infrastructure has never been as vital to the world's economy as it is today,' said
Shipments for the Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSD will begin next month and the OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform is scheduled to ship in the Fall with a five-year limited warranty. RapidFlex NVMe-oF controllers are available now.
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