Mangstor Titan NVMf Software for Storage Arrays

Mangstor Inc., developer of high performance, next-generation, non-volatile memory storage solutions, announced availability of its TITAN NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) Target Software Storage Stack.

TITAN delivers performance and low latencies by integrating NVMe SSDs with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Network Interface Cards (NICs) and efficient use of x86 server capabilities.

The software delivers key capabilities such as accelerated application response times, efficient storage resource sharing, tiering, scalability, connectivity to existing SANs, and operational efficiencies that enable IT managers to dynamically provision NAND flash memory locally or remotely, and with centralized management.

Advanced capabilities include storage caching, cluster management, and NIC support up to 100Gb/s speeds.

The management software included within TITAN is a scalable REST API and GUI tools that enable IT managers to easily deploy and manage large clusters of NVMf storage.

Presentations of TITAN software began at Flash Memory Summit 2016.

TITAN software provides a single web-based management interface for managing entire clusters of NVMf storage arrays. Centralized management enables easier and faster storage system configurability in the datacenter and the ability to manage these systems in a more reliable manner. The software supports multiple fabric options, including Mellanox RoCE (Ethernet) and IB, as well as emerging RDMA fabrics such as Intel OmniPath.

“Accelerated application response times are the big advantage of NVMf arrays as they deliver read and write latencies comparable with internal PCIe SSDs,” said Ashwin Kamath, SVP engineering, Mangstor. “TITAN delivers sustained performance of millions of IO/s, with latencies under 200 microseconds, and an order of magnitude better than typical FC or iSCSI interfaces – in fact, on the NX6320 2U supported platform, TITAN has been measured at up to 10x higher bandwidth and one-tenth the latency when compared to iSCSI and FC-based AFAs.”

NVMf arrays based on TITAN software scales to petabytes of capacity and hundreds of GB/s as arrays are added with virtually no increase in latency. As more capacity or performance is needed, arrays can be added as required. Latency is consistently low, similar with local SSD access times at low IO/s levels due to the optimized RDMA network, and remains low up to millions of IO/s.

NVMf storage arrays are a solution for data-intensive storage, latency-sensitive applications and real-time analytics and the first available storage array solution for the newly released NVMf specification.

TITAN is available for OEM customers and storage provider partners worldwide.

The NX-Series storage arrays are available through Mangstor’s worldwide sales channel of distributors, resellers, system integrators and manufacturing representatives.