Toshiba ZD6000 Dual Port NVMe SSD Chosen by DDN

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced that its ZD6000-series NVMe SSD feature the quality, capacity, and reliability necessary to enable the latest application acceleration and burst buffer technologies of DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN).

This collaboration leveraging the ZD6000 drives within the DDN IME14K appliance delivers performance, offers critical redundancy, and a low latency profile at the application layer, providing compute ROI.

DDN achieved volume production with the Toshiba solution powering DDN’s IME14K all-flash application and file system accelerator. It takes advantage of the ZD6000-series’ robust feature-set and its performance, increasing I/O performance compared to prior models and enabling the active dual port capability that safeguards against a single point of failure.

The ZD6000 dual port NVMe SSDs deliver HA and efficiency to minimize I/O bottlenecks and accelerate applications and file systems while providing low latency. DDN’s IME14K scales up to 48 NVMe SSDs utilizing ZD6000’s low capacity (800GB) to high capacity (7.680GB) SSDs, offering customers a variety of performance and capacity SKUs.

“Toshiba is proud of the collaboration that has resulted in DDN’s latest all-flash appliance,” said Jeremy Werner, marketing VP for SSD and storage solutions, TAEC. “DDN’s IME14K all-flash application and file system acceleration appliance is an innovative and differentiated solution, and Toshiba is excited to see how this solution takes great advantage of the reduced latency profile and enterprise reliability delivered by our dual port NVMe ZD6000 SSDs.“

Brett Weber, VP and CTO, DDN, added: “Toshiba is on the forefront of storage technologies with reliable storage solutions that feature high capacity, HA, and excellent performance. We are excited to leverage the cutting-edge technology found in Toshiba’s ZD6000 dual port NVMe to help enable IME14K to deliver the application acceleration and reliability expected by the most data-intensive users on the globe.“