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E8 Storage Launched Centralized NVMe Solution for Enterprise Storage

E8-D24 rack scale array, "10X performance of other all-flash arrays"

E8 Storage launched a storage centralized, highly available rack scale flash appliance based on NVMe drives.
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The E8-D24 is an array that provides an trifecta by combining the performance of NVMe drives, the HA and reliability of centralized storage, and the scalability of scale-out solutions.

As businesses of all sizes consider how to digitally transform to provide better products and services to their customers and to maintain competitive differentiation, the demands on enterprise storage infrastructure are outpacing the capabilities of legacy designs,” said Eric Burgener, research director, storage, IDC. “Newer, software-defined shared storage architectures are emerging – such as E8 Storage’s solution – that leverage high performance, off the shelf components like NVMe SSDs, and completely change the infrastructure density and cost equations. Latency-sensitive workloads can benefit from these systems that deliver throughput and latency on par with hyperconverged offerings while bringing to bear all the efficiency benefits of shared, disaggregated storage.”

E8 Storage’s E8-D24 is based on open hardware architecture and uses off-the-shelf NVMe drives and Ethernet NICs to deliver a more cost-effective solution than existing storage products. It provides 10 times the performance of other all-flash arrays, and features fast random-access latency that guarantees consistent application availability and overall response times without any need for caching. The storage appliance achieves latency on par with local SSD latency by optimizing for 40/50/100GbE networks. It also extracts the performance of the SSDs and provides up to 88% capacity utilization of the SSDs.
 
After many months of anticipation, we are really excited to reveal the details of our phenomenal E8-D24,” said Zivan Ori, CEO and co-founder, E8 Storage. “Our tier-1 North American POC customers have already recognized that the cost-performance of E8 Storage puts it in a league of its own. At 10 million IO/s, with 100µs latency, E8 Storage has broken new ground as the highest performing storage appliance based on commodity hardware ever to hit the market. We’re also seeing huge interest from a variety of high-growth vertical market segments.”

E8 Storage achieves best-of-breed latency, throughput and bandwidth, truly leveraging the strength of the NVMe drives.

Performance metrics are as follows:

  • Latency (4KB, QD=1): read 100µs, write: 40µs
  • IO/s (4KB): read 10 milllion, write 4 milllion
  • Throughput (GB/s): read: 40, write: 20
     

Designed for tier-1 usage and high duty cycle applications, the E8-D24 is for real-time market data analytics, hyperscale data centers fast block storage, high-performance computing, and SQL and NoSQL databases.

New storage appliance delivers competitive features, including:

  • Offers high flash density, with 70TB in a 2U rack unit available this year and 140TB available next year.
  • Field serviceable and upgradable 2.5″ NVMe SSDs
  • Supports converged Ethernet networking
  • Delivers HA, enabled by dual controller boards, a no single point of failure enclosure and dual-parity RAID-6
  • Designed for tier-1, high duty cycle usage, supporting non-disruptive software and hardware upgrades and battery backup
  • Scalable to over 100 servers per rack
  • Delivers half the TCO of any rack scale storage on the market
  • Software-defined fine capacity and performance provisioning
     

Availability for the E8-D24 will be in the fourth quarter of 2016.

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