Rack-Scale Flash Including Dual DSSD D5 by EMC

EMC Corporation announced Rack-Scale Flash offerings including dual DSSD D5 systems in a single rack for use with high performance database applications as well as the VCE VxRack 1000 Series system with DSSD.

DSSD is a key building block for the modern data center, accelerating the performance of traditional databases and data warehouses, and also helping customers address new challenges around high performance real-time analytics running on a new generation of apps and much larger working data sets.

Flash storage has always been about performance. However, the company has declared 2016 the ‘year of all flash,’ and has committed to shipping the majority of all primary storage as all-flash configurations. This commitment to flash, where the firm already leads the market, is extended by innovations in Rack-Scale Flash designed to support both traditional and next-generation applications that pave the way to the modern data center.

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Earlier this year, the company introduced DSSD D5, a new architecture designed for the most data-intensive applications, both traditional and next-generation, which require extreme performance and low latency. DSSD D5 reaches new performance heights, with real-world results that speed applications such as genetic sequencing calculations, fraud detection, credit card authorization, and advanced analytics by as much as 10X.

DSSD D5 delivers speed for customers whose businesses hinge upon this level of performance. With this announcement, the company is pushing the Rack-Scale Flash envelope further, by demonstrating that striping two D5 systems together with high performance databases in a single rack delivers 2X the IO/s, bandwidth and capacity; one-third the latency and a lower TCO than the fastest solution for databases on the market today. With this capability, customers will be able to consolidate multiple data marts, accelerate high performance business intelligence applications, and impact time to value for many other high performance analytics applications around risk, security, intelligence, etc.

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The firm also announced a fully-engineered storage, networking and compute system that provides customers with a single pre-configured and optimized solution for their high-performance databases and data warehouses. The VCE VxRack System with DSSD will combine the unmatched performance of DSSD with VCE’s heralded system availability, reliability, and productivity. This offers customers an accelerated time-to-value, with faster deployment and the ability to scale as their needs expand.

DSSD’s support for dual D5 systems with high performance databases and VxRack System with DSSD will be available in the second half of 2016.

Tony Palmer, senior lab analyst, ESG, said: “As a new category, Rack-Scale Flash has a lot of room to grow. The new features in DSSD D5, coupled with a converged infrastructure offering, make a compelling case for Rack-Scale Flash as an integral part of IT transformation.

CJ Desai, president, emerging technologies division, EMC, said: “The industry response to DSSD D5 has been staggering-and we’re keeping the innovation moving to evolve Rack-Scale Flash and enable customers to modernize their data centers. The combination of the blazing fast performance of D5 and EMC’s industry-leading VxRack converged infrastructure platform offers customers a fully-engineered system to realize unprecedented time to value for their applications. We’re breaking new ground yet again with these never-before-seen capabilities.“

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