Whiptail Introducing SSD Arrays

WHIPTAIL launched INVICTA, a scale-out, modular, enterprise class solid state storage platform, as well as ACCELA, next generation of all flash storage array.

        
INVICTA is scalable from 2 to 6 nodes.

INVICTA and ACCELA are available through the company as well as over 100 partners worldwide.

New family of products comes to market at a time when all companies are struggling with the ramifications of moving data fast enough in virtualized environments, big data applications, and continued pressure to make rapid decisions. Technology that can increase performance in these arenas is in strong demand.

WHIPTAIL’s second-generation family of products, ACCELA and INVICTA provide the speed, reliability and scalability required by today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise infrastructure.

"Incredibly fast is what flash is all about – and no one knows flash better than us," said Dan Crain, CEO, WHIPTAIL. "Our new family of products are market-changing – both for us, and for the companies that use them. Imagine running financial reports or pulling research data in minutes instead of hours … letting business reclaim time, that’s what our new products do."

INVICTA:
Scale-Out, Multi Role, Multi Tenant, Multi Protocol
INVICTA is an enterprise, scale-out, HA, modular and multi protocol 100% NAND flash storage array. It is delivering the next generation silicon storage array that provides scalable IOPS, extreme bandwidth, and low latency at price/performance when compared to performance optimized HDD solutions. It delivers high sustained write throughput, which is critical for big data.

Supporting all standard storage networking and file protocols, it introduces new enterprise features, as well as investment protection:

• Up to 72TB of NAND flash capacity
• Sustained bandwidth beyond 6 GB/s
• Sustained IOPS beyond 600,000
• Nearly undetectable latency, in a multi tenant, multi protocol environment
• Scale out modular design allows capacity and performance to be added with ease
• Cackward compatibility with all previous WHIPTAIL systems
• Highly available Silicon Storage Router manages host connectivity and data protection
• Supporting FC, iSCSI, FCoE, IB SRP and NFS
• New high availability options, including low latency protected write cache
• Asynchronous replication and snapshots
• NFS performance
• Management from within VMWare vCenter and support for VAAI
• 1,400 watts in 14 rack units, lowering energy use by 90%, compared to legacy HDD

ACCELA – Delivering New Features
A technology update to the company’s XLR8R, it changes the performance of databases, virtualized infrastructure and applications.

Supporting all standard storage networking and file protocols, ACCELA’s features include RAID protection, hot spares, and asynchronous replication, and has options such as protected write buffers and VMWare vCenter management, including the implementation of native VAAI. And, by leveraging the INVICTA ready option, the product offers investment protection and is designed to be merged into WHIPTAIL’s INVICTA modular scale out storage array.

"What I like most about WHIPTAIL’s family of products is the scalability and investment protection it offers. A customer can support their current needs with a stand-alone ACCELA system, and then later as they get off the ground with a virtualization or cloud deployment they can scale to INVICTA to meet their growing performance needs," said Henry Baltazar, storage and systems, 451 Research Group. "While each system is designed to meet specific customer needs, they also work together perfectly and pack a mean punch to overall application performance."

RACERUNNER Features and Updates
ACCELA and INVICTA are powered by RACERUNNER, WHIPTAIL’s software architecture, leveraging techniques to optimize high throughput around NAND flash for all block and file protocols.

• Connectivity – FC, FCoE, IB SRP, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
• Protection – Enhanced NAND optimized parity RAID, LUN mirroring
• Performance – LUN striping, Snapshots
• Replication – synchronous and asynchronous

Product Support
The family of products is Citrix and VMware certified. The company provides global 24/7 service and support for its customers, with four-hour response time and pre-positioned spares in most parts of the world.

The WHIPTAIL team was demonstrated INVICTA at the Synergy show in San Francisco, CA from May 8-10.