SanDisk and Nexenta to Deliver Open Software-Defined Storage All Flash Array

SanDisk Corporation and Nexenta Systems, Inc. announced that NexentaStor, the company’s software-only platform, has been integrated with all-flash InfiniFlash IF100 system.

InfiniFlash IF100

This all-flash joint solution provides data centre customers with a pre-tested, full-featured, cost-effective, high-performance system for addressing today’s increasing big data challenges.

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Capable of scaling from 64TB to 2PB configurations, this software and hardware solution supports a range of deployment scenarios and workloads including, virtualisation, big data analytics, data warehousing, and dynamic modeling.

Built on ZFS, this resilient scale-up, unified block (FC and iSCSI) and file (NFS and SMB) storage solution provides enterprise customers with peace of mind and the assurance needed around functionality and performance. Key differentiators of this joint solution include NexentaStor’s inline data reduction and dual parity RAID capabilities as well as the InfiniFlash IF100’s low space, power and cooling requirements, resulting in leading TCO.

“The coupling of our NexentaStor software and SanDisk’s InfiniFlash systems delivers the industry lowest cost solutions for high performance (ultra low, consistent, sub-millisecond response times and more than 8 Million flash IO/s in a rack) mature unified block and file services to cloud service providers and enterprise customers,” said Tarkan Maner, CEO, Nexenta. “These solutions literally break new ground and make all flash storage economically practical for a wide range of use cases, from high performance databases, to virtualised environments, big data lakes and extra dense active archive repositories.“

The integrated system monitoring and event management capabilities of the new solution, eases system management which ensures a better customer experience. NexentaStor’s ability to support block and file services allows customers to address use cases such as: VMware vCloud Air, OpenStack and CloudStack backend storage, generic NAS file services and home directory storage, etc.

“By design, InfiniFlash provides data centre customers with a seamless, simple to manage, cost efficient solution, that delivers substantial performance gains over traditional HDD drive-based systems,” said Ravi Swaminathan, VP and GM, systems and software solutions, SanDisk. “By integrating with Nexenta, we are disrupting the status quo and changing the industry dynamics in favour of dramatically broader flash adoption throughout the data centre.“

Tested for use with both Dell, Inc.‘s PowerEdge R730 and Super Micro Computer, Inc. ‘s SuperServer SYS-6028U-TR4+, the all-flash architecture will be available through select channel partners. List price for the solution including, perpetual software licenses, controllers, InfiniFlash, three year support and installation starting at $1.5/raw GB based on configuration and capacity requirements.

“The combination of Nexenta’s software-defined storage software, SanDisk InfiniFlash and Dell PowerEdge servers allows us to offer customers an all-flash array solution with performance and capacity-optimised configurations to handle large-scale virtualisation and file-based workload requirements,” said Alan Atkinson, VP and GM, Dell storage.

“Supermicro is the go to provider of leading edge server, storage and networking infrastructure solutions optimised for Enterprise, Data Centre, and cloud scale environments,” said Wally Liaw, SVP, sales, Supermicro. “Our open collaboration to develop market leading solutions featuring advanced technologies such as Nexenta’s NexentaStor and SanDisk’s InfiniFlash delivers customers the best performance, scalability and manageability in pre-configured, full-featured all-flash software-defined storage solutions.“