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EMC With STEC for Enterprise Flash Drives
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Mon, January 14th, 2008
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The two press releases
Here are the press releases of EMC and then STEC.
EMC Corporation became the first
enterprise storage vendor to integrate flash-based solid state drives
(SSDs) into its core product portfolio.
Solid state flash drives utilize flash memory to store and retrieve
data, yielding response times that are an order of magnitude faster
than the fastest hard disk drives and require dramatically less power
to run. The EMC Symmetrix DMX-4
storage system is the only enterprise storage system available on the
market today to leverage this technology, which has been tested by EMC
for the past year, to deliver ultra-high performance for
mission-critical applications.
The flash drives for the Symmetrix DMX-4 system have been purpose built to EMC’s exacting specifications and use single-layer cell (SLC) flash technology combined with sophisticated controllers to achieve ultra fast read/write performance, high reliability and data integrity. They have been tested and qualified to withstand the intense workloads of high-end enterprise storage applications. Continuing a pace of innovation that has made Symmetrix the market-leading enterprise storage platform for more than a decade, EMC has further optimized the Symmetrix DMX-4 operating software to take advantage of the full power and value that flash storage technology brings to high-performance storage environments, including the ability to easily provision, manage, replicate and move data between flash drives and traditional Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives in the same array.
Because there are no mechanical components in flash drives, they require less power. In a storage array, flash drives can store a terabyte of data using 38 percent less energy than traditional mechanical disk drives. It would take 30 15,000 RPM Fibre Channel disk drives to deliver the same performance as a single flash drive, which translates into a dramatic 98 percent reduction in power consumption in a transaction-per-second comparison.
“EMC is the first enterprise infrastructure player to incorporate flash disk into their arrays, which should give them a huge performance advantage at the very sector of the market that always seems to need more and more,” said Steve Duplessie, Senior Analyst, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. “If it creates as big a gap in real life transaction processing shops as it does on paper, this could very well be one of those killer advantages that only appear every 10 to 15 years.”
Flash storage technology is ideally suited to support applications that need to process massive amounts of information very quickly, such as currency exchange and electronic trading systems, real-time data feed processing, mainframe transaction processing, and many others. Storage systems with enterprise-class flash drives can deliver single-millisecond application response times, up to 10 times faster than those with traditional 15,000 RPM Fibre Channel disk drives. With flash drive technology in a Symmetrix DMX-4 storage system, a credit card provider, for example, could process its fraud detection information more quickly, clearing up to six times more transactions in the same amount of time it took to previously process a single transaction.
This new solid-state storage tier, “tier zero,” is fully supported by the Symmetrix software management suite, enabling storage administrators to simplify the provisioning of all of their storage tiers with advanced management tools including Dynamic Cache Partitioning, Virtual LUNs, Quality of Service Manager, and now Virtual Provisioning (see separate press release for details) to simplify overall management and application performance.
“For years, magnetic disk drive technology has defined performance boundaries for customers’ mission critical storage environments,” said David Donatelli, President, EMC Storage Division. “With this announcement, EMC has again revolutionized the storage industry. The introduction of flash drive technology builds on EMC’s long history of storage industry firsts, including the pioneering use of small form factor disk drives and ATA disk drives in enterprise storage systems. Then as now, EMC is helping customers gain a competitive advantage and tackle information challenges that no other vendor’s technology can.”
EMC plans to offer flash drives in 73 GB and 146 GB capacities for the Symmetrix DMX-4 platform beginning later in Q1 2008.
STEC, Inc. announced that EMC Corporation has selected STEC's Zeus-IOPS line of solid state drives (SSDs) for deployment in its Symmetrix DMX-4 high-end networked storage systems. STEC's technology gives EMC a significant advantage in system-level performance and further validates the surge in SSD adoption, marking an important milestone in the evolution of enterprise storage.
"We believe that flash-based solid state storage is a game changing technology and that STEC is at the forefront of the SSD market," said Brian Gallagher, senior vice president and general manager, EMC Storage Division. "Over the past year, EMC and STEC have collaborated to ensure that the Zeus-IOPS Fibre Channel drive meets the stringent quality, availability and reliability requirements of the enterprise storage market. The resulting integration of enterprise-class SSDs with the full breadth of Symmetrix DMX-4 features, capabilities and traditional disk drives will provide our customers with unprecedented levels of performance and energy efficiency for their most demanding applications."
"This is strong validation of our leadership position in providing SSDs to the Enterprise storage market, and we are delighted to partner with EMC in delivering the highest performance enterprise storage solutions," said Manouch Moshayedi, chief executive officer at STEC. "We feel that this important collaborative effort represents true innovation and market leadership by both companies. As a result of our collective efforts, Zeus SSDs will provide EMC with unprecedented levels of system-level performance. This union signifies the first adoption of our Zeus-IOPS SSDs in the enterprise storage and enterprise computing markets."
For more than a decade, EMC Symmetrix systems have continuously held the market leadership position for high end storage. The Symmetrix DMX-4 is the premier platform for the first ever enterprise-class deployments of solid state storage and is the result of more than a year of comprehensive testing and qualification. EMC's strong position as the industry leader in terms of performance and reliability is reinforced in its ability to integrate SSD into its existing systems and introduce this highest tier of storage to customers with the most demanding performance requirements.
Zeus-IOPS SSDs, in the same form factor as industry standard 3.5" hard disk drives, provide significant performance improvements, power savings and improved total cost of ownership. In terms of performance, while hard drive access times are measured in milliseconds, access times for Zeus-IOPS SSDs are measured in microseconds, enabling significant improvement in data input/output and latency.
The Zeus-IOPS is the fastest SSD available, based on all critical facets of sustained sequential throughput and, most importantly, sustained read and write input/output per second ("IOPS"). Given the transaction-intensive nature of high-end enterprise storage systems, the Zeus-IOPS drives are optimized to deliver the highest levels of transactional performance.
Product specifications:
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- Up to 52,000 Sustained Random Read IOPS
- Up to 17,000 Sustained Random Write IOPS
- Up to 250MB/sec sustained, sequential reads; 200MB/sec sustained, sequential writes
- Interfaces: Fibre Channel, SAS and 3Gb SATA
- Form Factor: 3.5-inch standard HDD dimensions
- Weight of less than 0.4 kg
Our comments :
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http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/flash/stec-emc-enterprise-flash-disks
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