Huawei Symantec With Impressive All SSD Array
2U, 24 x SLC 100GB flash disks
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 20, 2011 at 3:02 pmHuawei Symantec Technologies Co. Ltd. unveiled the Dorado 2100 Storage Series during its first-ever North America Partner Summit.
The Dorado 2100 provides customers with a high-performance, high-efficiency system designed to significantly reduce CAPEX and OPEX, particularly for companies challenged by compute-intensive environments. Built on NAND Flash Architecture, the Dorado 2100 solution helps data centers process inbound requests faster than traditional architectures, allowing customers to reduce data center management costs and increase overall efficiency.
"Most virtualized data centers today face a constant barrage of inbound requests, all asking the same questions, which takes a heavy toll on data center managers and drives up operating expenses," said Jane Li, General Manager of North America, Huawei Symantec. "By innovating at the core with NAND flash architecture, Huawei Symantec can help reverse these expenses, enabling customers to focus on growing, rather than hindering, their business by implementing a streamlined storage strategy."
Simple, Efficient, Stable
The Huawei Symantec Dorado 2100 is a storage system that provides customers with high performance IOPs and reliability required to maximize efficiency in compute-heavy environments found in areas like financial services, online transactions, social networking and more. It can scale up or down to deliver tailored business and technology benefits to a variety of customers, ranging from SMEs to large enterprises.
- Simple – The Dorado 2100 is designed to fit into existing data center infrastructure, eliminating the headache that results from competing rip-and-replace offerings while protecting customers’ investments in current environments.
- Efficient – Its flash architecture foundation allows the Dorado 2100 to process requests with more efficient infrastructure than if it were built on a traditional disk. Additionally, in contrast to cumbersome solutions from competitors, the Dorado 2100 is small in size, helping customers to achieve a lower overall data footprint and take up less pricey real estate in the data center with less hardware.
- Stable – Huawei Symantec developed the Dorado 2100 to provide customers with the longevity and reliability needed in fast-paced data centers. In contrast to competing vendors that offer only one controller, the Huawei Symantec Dorado 2100 has two controllers, significantly increasing reliability for its customers.
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You have to follow Huawei Symantec, one of the most interesting Chinese
company in storage. The joint venture between Huawei Technologies (51%),
a large electronics firm in the country, and Symantec (49%), could be
in the future a powerful server, storage and networking vendor.
The release of this new Oceanspace Dorado 2100 proves the quality of its
R&D storage team. It's one of the first array using exclusively SSDs - and
not HDDs at all.
Here are some competitors with RAID
using flash devices only (not either HDDs or/and SDDs):
- start-ups JDV Solutions, NextIO, Violin Memory and WhipTail Tech
- Apricorn (PCIe Mac Array), Dolphin Interconnect Solutions (PCIe SSD), LSI (MegaRAID), PMC Sierra (PCIe RAID-on-Chip), RAID, Inc., Super Talent Technology (PCIe RAIDDrive), Texas Memory Systems
The Dorado 2100 is a 2U array (86x412x446mm, 14.9kg, 170W) containing 24 2.5-inch SLC SSDs, each one at 100GB, with very low latency (less than 800µs), maximum bandwidth of 5.6GB/s and 4K block size random read of 135,000 IO/s and random write of 95,000 IO/s. Connection is done through eight 8Gb FC for the host and four onboard 4x6Gb SAS ports for backend, meaning a maximum of 96 (24x4) SSDs connected with four modules. All the common RAID levels are supported: 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50. The controller is dual active/active in an enclosure of 86x582x446mm, 23.9kg, 320W, supporting 2,048 LUNs.
The price is "comparable to a non-SSD storage array with 200 15,000rpm SAS disks", stated Huawei Symantec. Reliable sources in the U.S. and U.K., citing firm's executives, wrote that the price will be under "under 32 cents per IO/s." As the Dorado 2100 delivers 135,000 IO/s in random read mode at 4KB, the result is $43,200 for a raw capacity of 2.4TB.
Huawei Symantec is distributed in North America by Condre Storage and Synnex. In Europe it's E4 in Italy, Asbis and Sequence Sp zoo in Poland, Sysman Informatikai in Hungary, Netcore PSF in Luxembourg, Utopia Technology and Zycko in UK, CMS Peripherals in Ireland, and Green Data Systems in Netherlands, PCMS, TIM and Zycko in Germany, but no one for the moment in France.