Start-Up Profile: Smart IOPS
Ultra fast SSDs thanks to innovative controller, reaching 24TB in 2018-2019
By Jean Jacques Maleval | June 29, 2017 at 1:29 pmCompany
Smart IOPS, Inc.
Location
HQs in Milpitas, CA, office in Bangalore, India
Date founded
November 2013
Financial funding
Private funding and angel investors (no figures revealed)
Main executives:
Ashutosh Das, CEO and co-founder, previously president and CEO of Picogem during six years, director of advanced technology at Juniper Networks, after working at Intel, Sun Microsystems and Nexsi as senior technology architect
Dr. Manuel D’Abreu, chief scientist and SVP, co-founder, IEEE Life Fellow, formerly senior Fellow at AMD and SanDisk
Radhakrishnan (RK) Nair, COO and co-founder, coming from SanDisk, Micron, HAL, S3 and C-DoT
Number of employees
30
Technology
Company’s architecture, TruRandom, minimizes the overhead associated with internal SSD housekeeping, garbage collection and program/erase to unleash the raw I/O processing capability in the SSD. Additional patent-pending logic enhance data pattern recognition heuristics for data access such that random and sequential I/O requests become indistinguishable, a feat not achieved in current generation of high-end competing SSDs. This advantage translates to IO/s limits only within the reach Smart IOPS Data Engine SSDs, nearly 3x faster than the closest competitor with sub-10µs latency, according to the start-up.
Products
Data Engine NVMe SSD Add-In Card
Specs of Data Engine SSDs Add-In Cards
Smart IOPS Shared Flash Appliance
Specs of Smart IOPS Shared Flash Appliance
* Effective capacity assumes HA, RAID, and metadata overhead, GB-to-GB conversion, and includes de-dupe, compression and pattern removal.
Availability
Sampling to select OEM and enterprise customers
Price
$4,000 to $20,000 for SSDs
Roadmap
2017
- Data Engine T2 High Performance, up to 10TB
- Data Engine T2 High Capacity HC, up to 20TB
- Data Engine T2 Ultra-Low Latency (ULL)
2018-2019
- Data Engine T4, up to 16TB
- Data Engine T4 (HC), up to 24TB
- Data Engine T4 ULL
Partners
Gigabyte, Wistron, Xilinx, Micron, Toshiba
Customers
OEM/ODM, tier-1 cloud service providers, US Federal agencies, HPC and high end enterprise data centers
Applications
Mixed-use workloads including High Frequency Trading (HFT), cloud and hyperscale data center applications, OLTP and online analytical processing, big data analytics, SQL and NoSQL for structured and unstructured data, VDI, etc.
Target market
HPC and high end enterprise data centers compute and storage nodes
Competitors
All PCIe NVMe SSD vendors