Ardis microDDP10GbE Dynamic Drive Pool: All Flash Array

Ardis Technologies exhibiting under their product name, Dynamic Drive Pool, demonstrates their microDDP10GbE as an example of all flash.

A scalable redundant DDP is demonstrated as an example of a hybrid solution. Also a setup combining three microDDP10GbEs into one DDP, Here, There and Elsewhere is previewed (V5 software). Here, There and Elsewhere stands for different locations on the network. This often could be a better sharing alternative then collaborating via the cloud.

The microDDP10GbE is 1U, 19″, has a depth of 10″ (25,5 cm), is silent, has low power and can be hand carried (11 lbs, 5Kg). It currently comes with either 8×1 or 8x2TB SSDs in RAID-5 with an effective capacity of 7 or 14TB. It has dual 1GbE/RJ45 and dual 10GbE/RJ45 ports which can be used also as 1GbE. These four ports give a total bandwidth of 2,2GB/s. A microDDP10GbE with capacity up to 60TB can be offered upon request. For other all flash requirements a 4U miniDDP48D can be offered.

Regarding hybrid technology: each DDP consists of a DDP base system which can be optionally filled with SSD and or HD packs of different capacities and 1, 10, 40, 100 GbE network cards and ports.

Each DDP other then the microDDP can be all flash, hybrid or all spindles. Packs or sets of packs show up as data locations just as DDP16EXR, DDP24EXR and DDP60EXR do when added. Data location selection is done via folder volumes. Folder volumes are folders with volume properties.

Selection possibilities are: a data location, load balancing with automatic data redistribution, SSD caching.

The company also previews Here, There and Elsewhere (V5 software).

Until today, users share data within one DDP. Worldwide many DDPs are in operation this way. With V5, users can share their data between multiple DDPs within one DDP volume. Data is transferred in parallel and bandwidth scales linear in steps of 2.2GB/s while adding microDDPs. This depends of course on bandwidth and latency of the network. There are many setups possible: within a building in a machine room, within a building in each studio (no machine room needed), between buildings on a campus, between companies in an area, between cities in a company, between countries, fixed and outside broadcast installations. Storage can be added at the back-end without changes at the front-end. Think power saving. Think space saving.