SanDisk InfiniFlash With QCT Servers

SanDisk Corporation and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology, company’s parent of Quanta Computer, Inc.) announced a collaboration to deliver an all-flash storage solution designed to provide massive scale, efficiency, and resiliency to OpenStack and Ceph environments and meet today’s high capacity and performance storage requirements.

InfiniFlash system

The joint solution will be built on SanDisk’s InfiniFlash system and QCT’s server designs and will deliver a unified scale-out, all-flash storage solution for petabyte workloads such as big data environments.

InfiniFlash is a next-generation storage platform, offering up to 5x the density, 50x the IO/s and 4x the reliability, while consuming up to 80% less power than traditional HDD drive arrays. It delivers breakthrough pricing for an all-flash hardware solution starting at less than $1 per gigabyte for an all-flash system without requiring compression or de-duplication technologies.⁽¹⁾ With software stacks that offer data reduction schemes, the effective cost/GB goes down even more to unprecedented levels (example: 20 cents/GB based on a 5X data reduction factor).

QCT server

QCT’s server designs advance datacenters to the next level of hyperscale performance and effectiveness, helping datacenter customers accelerate in the ever-changing cloud computing battle.

“As a leader in flash storage solutions, we recognize the scaling out challenges involved in the cloud infrastructures of our customers,” said Ravi Swaminathan, VP and GM, systems and software solutions, SanDisk. “By partnering with QCT, SanDisk is better equipped to deploy flash for our Hyperscale customers and support a wide range of workloads with greater agility, performance and reliability across the data center.“

“We are enthusiastic about the positive impact of this technology collaboration,” said Mike Yang, GM, QCT. “As one of the leading cloud-native datacenter solutions providers, QCT has built its success upon our engineering expertise in designing efficient systems and driving innovation. With access to SanDisk’s all-flash storage solutions, we can now deliver even more enhanced and integrated cloud systems with hyperscale efficiency to data center customers.“

⁽¹⁾ 512TB of raw flash in a 3-rack unit enclosure (3U)