New Industry-leading System Brings Massive
Capacity and Breakthrough Price Economics for Big Data Workloads in
Hyperscale and Enterprise Markets
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today unveiled a revolutionary all-flash storage
platform that creates a new category for the IT industry, termed by
IDC as “Big Data Flash.” Built using open source software,
SanDisk’s InfiniFlash storage system delivers massive capacity,
extreme performance, and superior reliability to big data and
hyperscale workloads, while significantly reducing data center
complexity and costs.
InfiniFlash is configured with up to 64
specially-designed, hot-swappable cards, each providing an
unprecedented 8TB of flash capacity. Together, the cards deliver
half a petabyte (PB) (512 terabytes (TB)) of raw flash storage in a
3-rack-unit (3U) enclosure, which is able to connect with up to
eight off-the-shelf servers. (Photo: Business Wire)
According to IDC, the market for flash-based arrays—both All
Flash Arrays (AFA) and Hybrid Flash Arrays (HFA)—exhibited strong
double digit growth over the past five years for a combined market
that in 2014 was over $11.3B in size.1 This growth is largely being
driven by rapid migration to 3rd platform computing infrastructure,
resulting from the massive storage, compute power and scalability
requirements of an increasingly mobile workforce, social media, big
data analytics, and cloud computing.
InfiniFlash is the next generation storage platform. Available
in three different configurations (IF100, IF500 and IF700), this
breakthrough offering provides 5x the density2, 50x the performance
and 4x the reliability, while consuming 80 percent less power – as
compared to traditional hard disk drive (HDD) arrays – and far
surpasses the capabilities of existing all-flash arrays which focus
solely on performance3. InfiniFlash also delivers breakthrough
pricing for an all-flash hardware solution at less than $1 per
gigabyte (GB), and breaks the $2 per GB barrier for an all-flash
system4 without requiring compression or de-duplication
technologies.
“Building on our long history of industry-defining innovation,
we are very excited to bring our first all flash array storage
system to market in the form of a category-defining product that we
expect will drive flash into big-data workloads at massive scale,”
said Sumit Sadana, executive vice president and chief strategy
officer, SanDisk. “By offering InfiniFlash below $2/GB before
compression and de-duplication, we are changing the industry
dynamics in favor of dramatically broader flash adoption in new
hyperscale and enterprise workloads.”
Through the disaggregation of compute, switching and storage
capabilities, InfiniFlash enables the use of flash for primary and
secondary storage with new benchmarks in low total acquisition
costs and extremely compelling total cost of ownership (TCO). The
InfiniFlash system is configured with up to 64 specially-designed,
hot-swappable cards, each providing an unprecedented 8TB of flash
capacity. Together, the cards deliver half a petabyte (PB) (512
terabytes (TB)) of raw flash storage in a 3-rack-unit (3U)
enclosure, which is able to connect with up to eight off-the-shelf
servers.
The InfiniFlash system’s modular storage design supports various
operating system and storage stack offerings. It includes the
award-winning, performance-optimized SanDisk ION Accelerator™
software stack, from Fusion-io, for block storage applications. For
scale-out block and object storage workloads, InfiniFlash utilizes
the ‘flash-intelligent’, open source CEPH platform to deliver
enterprise-class data services. These offerings include development
libraries and a software development kit (SDK) that allow customers
to optimize applications for use with the system in order to obtain
even better performance, efficiency and TCO.
SanDisk continues to work with its OEM partners to bring
innovative flash solutions to market. SanDisk will also leverage
its relationships with channel partners, value-added resellers and
system integrators to deploy InfiniFlash and other SanDisk
flash-powered solutions for enterprise and hyperscale customers.
InfiniFlash system service, maintenance, and support are also
provided by SanDisk and its go-to-market partners.
“At Dell, our enterprise and Big Data customers are increasingly
demanding higher performance, higher capacity solutions that are
delivered in a rapid, reliable, open and cost-effective fashion,”
said Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager of engineered
solutions, Dell. “Solution and appliance innovations such as
InfiniFlash not only address these critical customer success
metrics but also deliver on the promise that big data insights can
drive differentiated business results.”
Targeting New and Big Data Workloads
Today’s highly visual, social, analytics-driven society
continues to crave higher performance, max-capacity storage
solutions to fuel both new business insights and personal
interactions. InfiniFlash is designed to address diverse enterprise
and hyperscale workloads including:
- Big Data
Analytics—InfiniFlash delivers both the capacity and
performance needed to mine information stores for patterns that
translate into business insights for workloads such as Hadoop,
Cassandra and MongoDB, as well as delivers timely analysis of
in-memory databases.
- Content
Repositories—High-definition content repositories, such
as social media sites, require blazingly fast read capabilities in
order to deliver a delightful user experience. InfiniFlash provides
quick and easy access to high-definition content 24x7.
- Media
Streaming—InfiniFlash supports the high data transfer
rates needed for capturing and delivering rich media content such
as movies, music, and video surveillance, that it can then rapidly
analyze and deliver for viewing.
“The creation of the new storage category of Big Data Flash will
be a welcome development for 3rd platform computing customers that
are struggling to meet the requirements of hyperscale environments
with legacy HDD technologies,” said Eric Burgener, research
director of IDC’s Storage Practice. “Big Data Flash solutions
consistently deliver sub-millisecond latencies, scale to hundreds
of PBs, exhibit enterprise class reliability, availability, and
serviceability, and bring the secondary economic benefits of flash
deployment at scale to big data applications – all at a $/GB price
point comparable to that of 15K RPM HDD systems. We believe
products like InfiniFlash that offer an aggressively compelling
price alternative to current scale-out HDD based architectures
currently being used for big data applications, will succeed.”
Focus on Storage Systems and Software Solutions
Over the last three years, SanDisk has built a strong,
enterprise-class portfolio of cutting-edge storage and software
solutions, augmented most recently by its acquisition of Fusion-io.
Under the leadership of SanDisk vice president and general manager,
Ravi Swaminathan, the company supports a growing enterprise
portfolio of system and software solutions, which includes the
SanDisk ION Accelerator flash-appliance, FlashSoft server caching
software, and ZetaScale flash-acceleration software. InfiniFlash
capitalizes on these investments and today’s launch underscores
SanDisk’s strategy to bring innovative, market-leading solutions to
our enterprise and hyperscale customers.
InfiniFlash is available immediately from SanDisk for interested
customers. To view a replay of the InfiniFlash launch webcast,
please visit http://info.sandisk.com/WebinarRegistration.html. You
can also view a product video overview here. For additional details
on InfiniFlash and SanDisk’s full portfolio of flash-based systems
and software solutions visit http://www.sandisk.com/bigdataflash or
the SanDisk IT blog.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P
500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For
more than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of
storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have
transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality,
state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's
largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smart phones,
tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at
hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more
information, visit www.sandisk.com.
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and other countries. InfiniFlash, SanDisk ION Accelerator,
Flashsoft, Zetascale and others are trademarks of SanDisk
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including expectations for new products, product availability,
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and growth, competitive landscape, business strategies and industry
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1 “IDC's Worldwide Flash Storage Solutions in the Data Center
Taxonomy 2014,” IDC #250560, September 2014.2 512TB of raw flash in
a 3-rack unit enclosure (3U).3 Metrics when compared to typical
HDDs deployed in Hadoop infrastructure, per the “Metrics Deploying
Flash--‐Accelerated Hadoop with InfiniFlash by SanDisk”.4 Price of
raw flash without de-dupe or compression.
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