DDN Introduces Big Data Storage Platform

DENVER, Colo., Nov. 19 – DataDirect Networks (DDN) maintains its lead in supporting the largest Big Data, High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud and data-intensive environments with the introduction today of its new SFA12K X series (SFA12KX)], the industry’s fastest family of storage appliance platforms.

With this latest release, DDN is introducing two new models of its Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) technology – the SFA12KX and the SFA12KXE.

The SFA12KX features the most advanced processor technology and a hyper-optimized operating system to deliver extreme performance at up to 48GB/s and 1.4 Million IOPS from a single appliance, making it the industry leader in all categories of IOPS and bandwidth. This performance boost allows customers to deploy Big Data solutions with the least number of systems – dramatically lowering the total cost of ownership.

The SFA12KXE leverages DDN In-Storage Processing technology to power DDN’s high-performance EXAScaler and GRIDScaler parallel file systems, as well as customer applications running natively within the storage array. The SFA12KXE delivers up to 23GB/s of file system performance and eliminates external servers and storage networking for a converged approach that yields significant acquisition and management savings.

With new capabilities including DDN’s SFX application-aware Flash caching, Real-Time I/O and a unique Storage Fusion Fabric technology, the SFA12KX series provides customers a trusted foundation for building innovative storage systems that deliver superior performance for the most challenging Big Data workloads of tomorrow at the lowest overall TCO.

SFK12KX Improves Performance, Reduces Cost and Complexity, and Accelerates Time to Innovation

The SFA12KX appliances use the latest generation of Intel Ivy Bridge family of processors and a hyper optimized operating system to achieve extreme performance targets. This architecture enables customers to build file storage systems that scale to 1TB/s and beyond with as little as 21 arrays, allowing consolidation by as much as 10:1 when compared to competing technologies.

The additional processing power also gives an added performance boost to virtualized applications running within the SFA12KXE, allowing customers to extract greater efficiencies from their I/O infrastructure, colocate their applications with their data and reduce the cost and complexity of storage by eliminating external server and storage networking layers.

When combined with DDN’s SS8460 enclosures, the SFA12KX reduces data center sprawl by up to 40 percent as compared to even the highest density storage array offerings and requires 58 percent less space than competing scale-out file storage offerings.