DDN Roadmap to Extend Market From HPC to Data-Intensive Enterprises

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) outlined its future technology architecture and roadmap.

Throughout 2015 and beyond, DDN is bringing to market a portfolio of products that capitalize on the broadening demand for performance-optimized solutions to deliver software defined storage (SDS), cloud, data analytics, data lakes and active archives in data-intensive enterprises globally.

Leveraging flash-caching software, solid state and hybrid arrays, object storage and a software-defined end-to-end architecture, DDN’s converged and hyper-converged solutions deliver high performance andt scalable storage platforms.

The portfolio additions through 2015 will change the ability of data centers to ingest, analyze and share the massive quantities of data being generated today.

Second half 2015 initiatives:

2nd Half 2015 Availability of Solutions Based on the DDN, Internal Project Name, Wolfcreek Platform, The World’s Highest Performance Hyper-converged Platform. Continuing its heritage of delivering the high density, high performance, mixed I/O storage platforms, the Wolfcreek platform will be the hyper-converged building block of upcoming DDN storage solutions. Capable of over 60GB/s throughput and over 5 million IO/s in 4U of rack space, the Wolfcreek platform will deliver more than twice the performance of any alternatives on the market and with a smaller data center footprint.
2nd Half 2015 Availability of Infinite Memory Engine (IME): 1,000x Increase in I/O Performance through Application Aware, I/O Acceleration Software. Building upon of its SFX hybrid flash caching technology and its all-flash SFA12KXi with 4 million IO/s per system, DDN continues to expand its flash-based and solid state array offering. Most notably with the upcoming availability of IME, an application aware I/O accelerator flash based solution. It provides improved I/O bandwidth and latency to the application, and can increase file system acceleration by 100x and increase I/O performance by 1,000x.
Q3 2015 Delivery of a Complete Object Storage Solution with Increased Open Source Connectivity. Coming off a year of 250% year-over-year revenue bookings growth, DDN continues to fuel WOS object storage momentum with the announcement of its new WOS 360 v2.0 release. It offers a suite of new options to expand use cases in enterprises, cloud, BYOD shared storage, deep archive, video streaming, file sync and share and SaaS offerings. Expanding upon the S3 Gateway to WOS announced by DDN in October 2014, WOS 360 v2.0 includes an Openstack SWIFT API.
Ongoing Expansion of SDS Solution Set. WOS was the first DDN product available as software for use on non-DDN hardware, followed by the SFX Flash Caching software, and now IME has been announced in a software-only option. These SDS options improve agility with faster time to proof of concept, improve the ability to manage across locations and classes of storage, increase flexibility with a choice of hardware platforms, and reduce CAPEX/OPEX with fewer personnel needed to manage the environment. DDN continues to deliver the vision for its DDN-powered, software defined, high-performance data center.

Infinite Memory Engine

Large scale data environments are rapidly evolving outside of traditional HPC in a variety of enterprise, research, web and cloud environments. These modern data sets require storage infrastructure that is designed to accommodate large scale, mixed I/O and often multi-data center environments. These are requirements that legacy storage infrastructures fail to meet. Data-intensive enterprises are now benefitting from the world’s fastest storage platforms with integrated, end-to-end capabilities designed for large-scale applications and workflows – accelerating customer insights and time to market.

“For more than a decade, DDN’s innovative, proven technology has been at the forefront of solving big storage challenges in the world’s largest and most demanding environments,” said Molly Rector, CMO and EVP of product management, DDN. “Today, our vision and roadmap is being increasingly influenced by our enterprise and commercial HPC customers who are demanding new features in addition to the highest availability, reliability, scalability and best price/performance.“