SolidFire Scale-out All-Flash Array Below $100,000

SolidFire, Inc. announced the expansion of its SF Series product line, unveiling two new storage nodes: the SF2405 and SF4805, which decrease the cost of entry for the cloud-scale all-flash array.

The SF2405 expands the low end of its product family starting at 35TB of effective capacity and 200,000 predictable IO/s, all below $100,000. The platform is targeted at IT departments and managers looking to accelerate the performance of individual applications or taking their first steps towards deploying a private cloud infrastructure and IT as a service.

The SF4805 doubles the density of the SF2405 while providing 44% more storage capacity at a 30% lower cost than the previous SF3010. It delivers SolidFire’s lowest $/GB, with a starting 4-node footprint providing 69TB of effective capacity and 200,000 predictable IO/s. The product is targeted at customers looking to eliminate traditional storage silos by consolidating a mix of application workloads within a single infrastructure.

The SF2405 and SF4805 nodes are the third-generation of SolidFire hardware to be released since the platform became available in November 2012. Both new nodes can be integrated with any current SolidFire platform and take advantage of the feature set including guaranteed QoS, system automation and scale-out storage design.

“The driving force behind these new nodes is to make SolidFire’s proven all-flash storage technology more accessible to our target enterprise and service provider customers and to allow them to apply the platform to a broader set of use cases,” said SolidFire’s founder and CEO, Dave Wright. “SolidFire has proven our technology at scale in many of the world’s largest public and private clouds, but many of our enterprise customers and prospects are looking to accelerate individual workloads, while service providers would like to leverage SolidFire within their managed SAN and hosted private cloud offerings. The SF2405 and SF4805 allow us to respond to these immediate demands and help customers set their foundation for greater consolidation, automation and scale.”

“Enterprises that think flash is still too expensive to deploy in their datacenters are mistaken. IDC believes that all enterprises should be using flash in at least some capacity in their datacenters today for both performance and economic benefits,” said IDC’s flash storage research director, Eric Burgener. “Many enterprises getting comfortable with flash start by running it to solve performance issues with individual applications before deploying all-flash arrays throughout their data center to consolidate dense mixed workloads.”

The SF2405 and SF4805 are available for order through the company and its partner network.