DDN Flashscale benefits include:
· Highest Performance – Concurrently delivers extreme levels of IOPS (6 million) and throughput (60GB/s) in just 4U, with up to 60 million IOPS and 600 GB/s in a single rack;
· Highest Capacity – Leverages the latest NVMe and SAS or a mix of both SSDs in a high density hyperconverged, shared storage architecture (up to 576TB in 4U and 7.3 Petabytes in one rack);
· Lowest Latency – Delivers latencies as low as 100?s for superfast embedded application speeds thanks to its specially designed internal PCIe Gen3 fabric;
· Best Cost – With a price point as low as $1/GB, and best of breed performance, capacity, latency and scale, Flashscale does not require any compromise on TCO;
· Ideal for Analytics and File Systems – Maximizes the performance of databases, SAS® analytics, Hadoop®, OpenStack® and parallel file systems such as Lustre® and IBM Spectrum Scale™ (GPFS™); and
· Scale-up and Scale-out – Designed to optimally deliver price, performance, scale and capacity for Financial Services, Life Science, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Government, Web Scale, Analytics, Database and HPC environments.
DDN Flashscale delivers an ultra-dense, high performance and low latency network attached shared flash storage solution for home directories, data analytics, databases and computational applications. DDN’s built-for-flash custom architecture unlocks the value of each SSD in the solution by aggregating the full performance of each device and delivering the performance over the low latency embedded PCIe Gen3 fabric to performance hungry applications. DDN Flashscale’s fast embedded PCIe fabric delivers full native performance and extreme low latency from 48 NVMe or 72 SAS or any mix of SSDs while offering cost optimized sub $1/GB all-flash storage up to 576TB, 6 Million IOPS and 60GB/s per 4U node.
Use Cases
As big data use increases globally within all types of organizations, scientists, engineers and developers are demanding a new type of storage platform that can deliver fast performance across a massive expanse of data types and applications.
Both traditional and next-generation applications will greatly benefit from the performance, capacity and latency enhancements DDN Flashscale delivers. Applications achieving significant workflow acceleration and enhanced time to insight, TCO and scientific results include:
· Analytics, database acceleration, Hadoop environments
· Banking, compliance, back testing and high frequency trading
· Genomics sequencing, healthcare, drug discovery, pharmaceuticals
· Manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, chip design
· Cloud edge, web-scale environments
· Fraud protection and detection, credit card validation
· IOT / sensor generated data capture and analysis
· Real-time data processing
· Seismic processing, weather forecasting
