SSD Maker Innodisk Into All-Flash Arrays

Innodisk Corporation announces the FlexiArray SE108 at Supercomputing Conference 2013.

This new storage appliance incorporates eight SSDs to achieve great IO/s in a 1U rack-mount form factor.

Innodisk will show at Supercomputing Conference 2013 in Denver, CO, from November 18 to 21 its FlexiArray SE108.

FlexiArray product line, powered by FlexiRemap technology, boosts IO/s through SSDs and an optimized OS – breaking the I/O storage bottleneck, without breaking the bank. FlexiRemap technology, Innodisk’s innovation in system software and SSD firmware design, improves performance of random write operations.

FlexiArray is an enterprise grade storage appliance designed to provide cost effective performance for HPC, cloud computing, and I/O bound server applications. Typical application areas include cloud computing, virtualization, and HPC.

Initial products in the FlexiArray series include the slim SE108 for up to 2TB of storage in a 1U rack-mount package, and the HD224, offering up to 8TB in a 2U rack-mount unit, with 8 x 10GbE SFP+ interfaces. Both units offer redundant hot-swappable SSDs and power modules.

Unlike existing proprietary technologies that are expensive and custom-built for each application, Innodisk offers a cost-effective, enterprise-grade storage solution for customers that need high-speed data access.

FlexiRemap technology deals with the challenges of I/O performance, data endurance, and affordability through innovation in software and firmware, creating a new category of flash-collaborating storage appliances (in contrast to flash-aware or flash-optimized) that will deliver sustained high IO/s, even for random write operations.

FlexiArray features flash-collaborating architecture, high IO/s for random writes, data protection groups, cross-drive wear leveling for health and life span, and standardized, hot-swappable components in rack-mount form factors.

Innodisk will also be speaking in a special forum at Supercomputing Conference 2013, Building High IO/s Flash Array with Innodisk FlexiRemap Technology, by Charles Tsai, senior director of the cloud storage technology center, Innodisk.