DENVER and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 13, 2017 — DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced new high-performance computing (HPC) storage solutions and capabilities, which it will feature this week at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC17) in Denver, Colorado. The new solutions include an entry-level burst buffer appliance (IME140) for cost-effective I/O acceleration, a next generation monitoring software (DDN Insight), and the company’s new declustered RAID solution (SFA Declustered RAID “DCR”) for increased data protection in massive storage pools. DDN also announced recent HPC customer wins in some of the world’s largest supercomputing centers.
“Modern HPC workflows require new levels of performance, flexibility and reliability to turn data and ideas into value,” said John Abbott, founder and research VP, 451 Research. “With its long-standing HPC storage heritage, DDN is strongly positioned with closely integrated components that can deliver extreme I/O performance, comprehensive monitoring at scale and new levels of data protection.”
New DDN Solutions and Next Generation Monitoring Tools
HPC and data-intensive enterprise environments are facing new pressures that stem from higher application diversity and sophistication along with a steep growth in volume of active datasets. These trends present a tough challenge to today’s filesystems in delivering the performance and economics to match business needs and compute capability. In addition, as rotational drive capacities grow the risk of data loss increases due to longer drive rebuild times. DDN’s latest technology innovations deliver the enhanced performance, flexibility and management simplicity needed to solve these challenges and to accelerate large-scale workflows for greater operational efficiency and ROI.
- DDN IME140
DDN has expanded its IME product line with the new IME140 that makes IME scale-out flash accessible to more organizations at lower cost. The IME140 supports extreme file performance in a small 1U flash data appliance. Each appliance can deliver more than 11GB/s write and 20GB/s read throughputs and more than 1M file IOPs (read and write). Starting with a resilient solution as small as 4 units, the IME140 allows organizations to cost-effectively scale performance independent of amount of capacity required. Traditional parallel file systems often cannot keep pace with the mixed I/O requirements of modern workloads and fail to deliver the potential of flash. The IME software implements a faster, leaner data path which delivers to applications the low-latencies and high throughputs of NVMe. The IME140 1U building block allows organizations to intelligently apply fast flash where it is needed, while maintaining cost-effective capacity on HDD within the file system. - DDN Insight
DDN Insight is DDN’s next-generation monitoring software. Easy to deploy, DDN Insight allows customers to monitor the most challenging environments at scale, across multiple file systems and storage appliances. With DDN Insight customers can quickly identify and address hot spots, bottlenecks and misbehaving applications. Tightly integrated with SFA, EXAScaler, GRIDScaler and IME, DDN Insight delivers an intuitive way for customers to comprehensively monitor their complete DDN-based ecosystem.
Availability
The DDN IME140 will ship in volume in the first quarter of 2018. The SFA DCR is shipping today with the SFA14KX, and DDN Insight monitoring software is integrated and shipping today with DDN’s SFA, EXAScaler, GRIDScaler and IME solutions.
About DDN
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a leading big data storage supplier to data-intensive, global organizations. For almost 20 years, DDN has designed, developed, deployed and optimized systems, software and storage solutions that enable enterprises, service providers, universities and government agencies to generate more value and to accelerate time to insight from their data and information, on premise and in the cloud. Organizations leverage the power of DDN storage technology and the deep technical expertise of its team to capture, store, process, analyze, collaborate and distribute data, information and content at the largest scale in the most efficient, reliable and cost-effective manner. DDN customers include many of the world’s leading financial services firms and banks, healthcare and life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, government and research facilities, and web and cloud service providers. For more information, go to www.ddn.com or call 1-800-837-2298.
Source: DDN