Furthers SanDisk’s Commitment to Drive
Innovation and Delivering All-Flash Extreme Performance and Massive
Capacity to Today’s Data Centers
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today 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 ScaleTM 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. The InfiniFlash 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.”
“Next-Gen applications demand storage services which are
high-performance, cost-effective, elastic and agile while providing
break-through capex and opex,” said Ashish Nadkarni, Program
Director, Enterprise Servers and Storage at IDC. “This joint
solution between SanDisk and IBM that combines an all-flash
storage array with a software-defined storage
software effectively addresses the changing needs of the data
center.”
About SanDisk Systems & Storage Solutions
SanDisk’s Systems & Storage Solution portfolio enables the
flash-transformed data center through integrated, tested and
supported flash solution building blocks for today’s enterprise and
cloud workloads, including virtualization, tier-1 databases, Big
Data Analytics and Digital Media Repositories, for an experience
never before thought possible with extreme performance, massive
capacity and immediate access to information.
In addition to InfiniFlash System,
the portfolio includes the leading solid state devices of Fusion
ioMemory, Lightning Series, Optimus Series and CloudSpeed Series
and SanDisk enterprise SSDs and systems integrated with software
such as FlashSoft™, ION Accelerator™ and InfiniFlash OS Ceph.
For more information about Data Center Solutions from SanDisk,
visit www.sandisk.com/business/datacenter
Learn more about InfiniFlash for IBM Spectrum Scale Solution on
the SanDisk IT Blog: http://sndk.co/AllFlashSDS
About IBM Spectrum Storage
IBM’s Spectrum Storage™ portfolio can centrally manage more than
300 different storage devices and yottabytes of data. This device
interoperability is the broadest in the industry—incorporating both
IBM and non-IBM hardware and tape systems. IBM Spectrum
Storage can help reduce storage costs up to 90 percent in certain
environments by automatically moving data onto the most economical
storage device—either from IBM or non-IBM flash, disk and tape
systems.
In addition to Spectrum Scale, the IBM Spectrum Storage
portfolio includes key storage software such as Spectrum
Virtualize, Spectrum Accelerate, Spectrum Control, Spectrum Protect
and Spectrum Archive.
For more information about software defined storage offerings
from IBM, visit www.ibm.com/spectrumstorage.
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 27 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, in advanced smartphones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s
consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail
stores worldwide. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
SanDisk Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including statements about the continued collaboration between
SanDisk and IBM to work together on all-flash scale-out storage
solutions for the data center; growth of all-flash storage systems
market; and the functionalities, performance and cost advantages of
all-flash storage systems. There are a number of risks and
uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate including, among others: the failure of all-flash
storage systems to achieve the various functionality, performance
and cost benefits currently anticipated; potential delays in
product development or lack of customer acceptance of SanDisk’s
all-flash storage systems; failure to manage and continue the
collaboration with IBM, general business and economic conditions;
weakness in demand in all-flash storage systems; industry and
technology trends not occurring in the timeline SanDisk anticipates
or at all; and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in
SanDisk’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports,
including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended January 3, 2016. All statements made in this
news release are made only as of the date of this release. SanDisk
undertakes no obligations to update the information in this release
in the event facts or circumstances change after the date of this
release.
© 2016 SanDisk Corporation.
All rights reserved. SanDisk and InfiniFlash are trademarks or
registered trademarks of SanDisk Corporation in the U.S. and other
countries.
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