All-SSD GridIron Appliances Up to 4 Million IO/s and 40GB/s

GridIron Systems, Inc., in big data acceleration, introduced OneAppliance, a suite of solutions designed for accelerating big data analytics, based on engineered systems that match the workload characteristics of big data to MLC flash for performance.

      
OneAppliance RackPack

OneAppliance solutions enable enterprises to use the same infrastructure to combine structured, unstructured or mixed big data processing. OneAppliance system reduces complexity, while increasing computing performance, bandwidth, and scalability so IT departments can protect their infrastructure investments and utilize resources in a more cost-effective manner.

"As more organizations want to harness the power of ‘big data’ to drive business improvements, new IT infrastructure challenges to support it are emerging," said Mark Peters, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "GridIron recognizes the need in big data environments for a ‘balanced data delivery infrastructure’ as a result of the typical demand for a mix of structured and unstructured; and to address this need, its OneAppliance suite promises to relieve serious data-access bottlenecks by better balancing processing and storage, and thereby helping organizations to deliver on the potential of big data."

The OneAppliance suite represents a breakthrough for organizations running clustered applications that often struggle to deliver performance under concurrent workloads and fail to utilize the full capabilities of hundreds, or even thousands, of physical servers and storage devices. In contrast, OneAppliance provides up to twenty times the bandwidth of the fastest flash solutions and can reduce space and power consumption by up to 60% while reducing the TCO for big data infrastructure by 75%.

GridIron’s new FlashCube, iNode and RackPack rack-mounted systems are part of the OneAppliance suite of solutions built for unified big data analytics.

OneAppliance FlashCube
High Bandwidth Acceleration for SAN-based Infrastructure
The OneAppliance FlashCube is a high bandwidth unified data store for the aggregate read and write performance demands of SAN-based clustered applications. Combined with the GridIron TurboCharger, it provides a solution for the shared demands of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), including Database Smart Flash Cache and intermediate TEMP stores, to speed up Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) or join operations. The FlashCube is intended for deployment in Oracle Automatic Storage Management environments. It delivers 1 million IOPS, bandwidth in excess of 10GB/s and 25 to 100TB of flash capacity.

OneAppliance iNode
Compute-integrated big data Appliance
The OneAppliance iNode integrates performance compute with engineered high-bandwidth flash data store to offer an all-Flash big data appliance. This architecture removes the limitations of PCIe attached flash that typically tops out at 2GB/s with densities well below 5TB of capacity. The iNode has 40 cores with 2-way hyper-threading with up to 1TB of RAM and 100TB of flash that is capable of 1.5 million IOPS and 20GB/s bandwidth. This approach breaks through the imbalance of today’s server-flash solutions by providing scale and bandwidth to meet the demands of multi-core servers. The iNode is a single 10 rack unit system that can simplify and consolidate sprawling clusters of storage and servers without sacrificing performance. This system is designed for data marts, data warehouses, OLAP, and ERP environments. It can be used as a Hadoop node or as a cloud-container for virtualized SQL or NoSQL clusters, delivering improved resiliency and manageability.

OneAppliance RackPack
Scale-out All-Flash big data Appliance for Hadoop and Oracle RAC
The OneAppliance RackPack is designed for data processing needs beyond 100TB and reaching into petabytes. This unified compute and storage system outperforms reaches up to 40 GB/s in bandwidth and 4 million IOPS. This scale-up and scale-out system is designed for the most demanding clustered big data and HPC applications. A RackPack can have up to 40 Sandy Bridge servers (supplied by GridIron’s server partners), up to 250TB of flash and can run a Hadoop cluster, or 32-node Oracle RAC, or a combination of Hadoop/Hbase/SQL Relational Database Management System to house a customer-specific data processing flow. The stateless compute cluster can combine shared-nothing and shared-everything processing in one appliance to provide flexibility in mixing applications and backup processes.

The OneAppliance FlashCube, iNode and RackPack were showcased at Collaborate 2012 from April 23 through 26.

All OneAppliance models are available for qualified customer evaluations starting May 2012.