SanDisk Partners with Supermicro to Supply Storage Solutions
Published2015.12.07 18:37SanDisk announced a strategic partnership with Supermicro. The core of this strategic partnership, which develops a proprietary next-generation software-based all-flash storage solution, is SanDisk's InfiniFlash system. InfiniFlash is a flash-based storage system with massive capacity and exceptional performance, and represents Supermicro's flagship high-performance servers, according to SanDisk. This joint solution is expected to align with the growth and trend of non-cumulative data centers resulting from the emergence of big data and cloud environments.
These solutions are also provided together with Nexenta's flagship OpenSDS unified file and block storage platform and NexentaStor platform. InfiniFlash is a next-generation storage platform developed by SanDisk that achieves 5 times the density, 50 times the performance, and 4 times the reliability, with power consumption reduced by 80% compared to conventional hard disk arrays. Additionally, InfiniFlash is launched at less than 1 dollar per gigabyte (GB), a dramatic price for an all-flash-based hardware solution.
Nevertheless, compression technology or deduplication technology is not required. By adopting data volume reduction technology through a software stack, the cost per GB can be lowered to levels that were previously unthinkable (for example, 20 cents per GB when applying a 5-fold data reduction ratio).
Adding Compute and Storage Capacity to Existing Systems Through Scalability
The InfiniFlash IF500, compatible with OpenStack/CEPH, is used with Supermicro servers to significantly reduce private cloud data storage costs within petabyte-scale OpenStack® environments. Through this scalability, compute and storage capacity nodes are added to existing system configurations, thereby providing an all-flash-based system with massive capacity and excellent density. Such flash-based systems present outstanding scalability in performance along with excellent cost-effectiveness, providing a solution suitable for big data storage purposes.
Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta, stated, "The industry-leading NexentaStor OpenSDS solution, SanDisk's InfiniFlash solution, and Supermicro systems together will enhance the cost-effectiveness of all-flash-based storage in terms of functionality and performance, enabling deployment across various domains including high-performance databases, virtualization environments, big data lakes, and high-density active archive storage."
Nexenta software, Supermicro, and the InfiniFlash IF100 system provide validated legacy storage capabilities for enterprise and cloud customers, enabling the handling of workloads such as file, print, cloud backend, and shared virtual infrastructure.
The all-flash-based integrated solution provided for data center customers is a system with rich performance, proven, cost-effective, and high-performance. This will help overcome increasingly growing challenges. Upgradeable to a maximum of 4 petabytes (PB), this solution features proven performance and mature technology, integrated block and file services with sub-millisecond response times, and supports over 8 million flash IOPS per rack, providing customers with the industry's highest value.
Petabyte-Scale Flash Solutions Achieve Price Competitiveness
Dr. Ravi Swaminathan, Executive Vice President of SanDisk Systems and Software Solutions, stated, "Through this partnership with Supermicro and Nexenta, the best technologies from both sides can now be utilized in data centers, and superior cost-effectiveness can be achieved compared to existing all-flash systems. Power consumption has also been significantly reduced compared to conventional hard disk systems." He added, "Through these products, customers will be able to adopt petabyte-scale flash solutions at economical costs."
Don Clegg, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Supermicro, stated, "This will realize maximized performance per unit of power consumption, maximized performance per unit of cost, and maximized performance per unit of space, thereby lowering overall TCO through economies of scale."
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