SanDisk Corporation,
a global leader in flash storage solutions, and IBM announced a collaboration
to bring out a unique class of next-generation, software-defined, all-flash
storage solutions for the data center. At the core of this collaboration are
SanDisk’s InfiniFlash System—a
high-capacity and extreme-performance flash-based software defined storage
system featuring IBM Spectrum Scale filesystem from IBM. The joint
solution of software-defined all-flash storage addresses the escalating
datacenter challenges of scale, performance, agility and break-through
economics.
As bi-modal IT, traditional and cloud native applications become
social, mobile and real-time, IT groups must address the mounting pressure to
deliver best-of-breed storage. TheInfiniFlash for IBM Spectrum Scale
Solution is a scale-out, ultra-dense system combined with IBM Spectrum
Scale and allows private, hybrid and public cloud customers to enable
Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) by starting small and growing to multiple
petabytes. InfiniFlash delivers best-in-class cost per IOPS/TB and the ability
to scale compute and storage independently, while delivering the high
reliability and low failure rate of flash, resulting in breakthrough capex and
opex savings. The joint flash storage solution will address use cases such as
clustered scale-out high performance NAS, Big Data In-Place analytics and
OpenStack for files.
SanDisk InfiniFlash
Award-winning SanDisk InfiniFlash is a
next-generation storage platform created by SanDisk offering 5x the density,
50x the performance and 4x the reliability, while consuming 80 percent less
power than traditional hard disk drive (HDD) based arrays. InfiniFlash also
delivers breakthrough pricing for an all-flash solution starting at less than
$1 per gigabyte (GB) for an all-flash system before the additional effects
of compression or de-duplication technologies are considered. With software
stacks that offer data reduction schemes, the effective cost/GB goes down even
more significantly to unprecedented levels (example: 20 cents/GB based on a 5X
data reduction factor).
IBM Spectrum Scale
Award-winning IBM Spectrum Scale is a software-defined,
distributed, parallel filesystem, for high performance, large scale workloads
on-premises or in the cloud. Featuring the ability to automatically tier data
based on application needs, the Spectrum Scale software-defined
storage solution provides file, object, and integrated data analytics for:
· Compute clusters (technical computing)
· Big data and analytics
· Cognitive computing
· Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
· Private cloud
· Content repositories
“Our initiative with IBM brings the best of both worlds to data
centers: breakthrough economics compared to traditional all-flash array
deployments, and dramatically higher performance, improved reliability and
lower power consumption compared to hard disk drive-based arrays,” said Ravi
Swaminathan, vice president and general manager, System and Software Solutions,
SanDisk. “These offerings enable customers to economically deploy flash at
petabyte-scale, which drive business growth through new services and offerings
for their end-customers.”
“The market-leading combination of IBM Spectrum Scale and
SanDisk’s InfiniFlash solution delivers key differentiators for our mutual
clients’ applications and workloads,” said Eric Herzog, vice president product
marketing and management, of IBM Storage Systems Division. “These solutions
will be designed to break new ground and make all-flash storage exceedingly
cost-effective for a wide range of use cases, from high-performance databases
to virtualized environments to big data oceans to extra-dense active archive
repositories and more.”
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