Nexenta, Raidundant and Stec Achieve One Million IO/s

Nexenta Systems, Inc. together with Raidundant, Inc., in storage technologies providing solutions for the storage market, achieved one million IOPS by combining NexentaStor with SkySAN Storage.

With its new capabilities, Raidundant’s second-generation SkySAN Storage Appliances deliver more performance and cost savings for customers seeking speed and efficiency in a smaller footprint.

SkySAN’s all-flash array model-with its distributed backplane design-breaks the 1,000,000 IOPS barrier in a single box. It combines a fast array with 40GbE, all in a footprint measuring in at 17.8 inches in depth and 3U in height, plus the unified storage and deep data integrity and protection capabilities of NexentaStor.

"Beyond the headline performance, this announcement confirms that the OpenStorage model allows for superior innovation, as well as massive cost savings," said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. "Together, OpenStorage participants are pushing innovation at a pace that legacy vendors cannot maintain."

Nexenta, Raidundant and STEC, Inc.‘s solution solves the big data problem enterprises face by offering one million IOPS in a single 3U box.

This will also come to the rescue of other customers in need of massive performance in a small, power efficient, and cost effective platform without sacrificing replication. No longer are real-time business analytics, performance database applications, and real time GIS analysis the privilege for a select few.

Raidundant is providing selected customers access to the all-flash SkySAN, which will be made generally available this autumn.

Interested parties can find more details at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, from August 26 to 30, where Raidundant will be discussing the technical details and ZFS technology behind the one million IOPS performance.

"There is a lot of hype about flash storage; too often, the solution comes with an outsized price tag, limited functionality, and an unproven file system," said Annie Parkhurst, director of Sales and Marketing, Raidundant. "With Raidundant’s one million IOPS all-flash SkySAN, users will see the same extreme performance without severe damage to their budgets and without giving up the unified storage and data protection features of NexentaStor. SkySan, with NexentaStor, delivers more than 2x the performance of other all-flash arrays at 75% or greater savings, while also delivering far superior data protection and unified storage."

Jim Ting, VP of product marketing, STEC, added: "Combining STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs, Nexenta’s OpenStorage software and Raidundant’s innovative SkySAN provides the enterprise market with a high-performance storage solution at an overall lower total cost of ownership that vendors of legacy storage systems can’t match."

Details of the one million IOPS results:

• 16 outstanding I/Os
• 100% random read requests
• Four KB I/O requests