ScaleFlux Shipping Computational Storage Subsystem for Revenue

ScaleFlux, Inc., in the deployment of computational storage at scale, is shipping its Computational Storage Subsystem (CSS) for revenue into multiple enterprise end-user production environments.

Architected to address the plethora of quickly evolving data-driven applications, CSS is proven across database, big data, data warehousing and other use cases to improve IT infrastructure efficiency. By extending low-latency PCIe 3D-NAND SSDs to address both storage I/O and algorithmically intense computational bottlenecks, CSS minimizes application run-time, optimized flash capacity utilization, and reduced TCO for data center compute and storage infrastructure.

“From high transaction throughput and e-commerce payment environments to travel sites that demand real time response to queries, our customers are getting more useful work from their volume flash storage deployments with CSS,” said Hao Zhong, co-founder and CEO, ScaleFlux. “Leveraging programmable hardware, we are able to address new customer demands on a multi-month cycle versus a mult,ear ASIC development cycle for new intelligent storage features, which puts us in an advantageous position in this fast-moving market.”

CSS integrates into standard Linux/x86 server flash storage environments and has been validated to improve the efficiency of popular applications including Aerospike, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DeepgreenDB, RocksDB, HBase, Hadoop, and Spark (see for benchmark details). The list of applications continues to expand as the company innovates from both a compute engine and storage I/O acceleration perspective, and will extend into content delivery, search, HPC, AI and machine learning environments.

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“ScaleFlux CSS has proven to deliver extremely high transactions with consistently low latency – something that is becoming more of a challenge as 3D NAND evolves to larger and larger die densities,” said Brian Bulkowski, co-founder and CTO, Aerospike, Inc. “We are excited to collaborate with ScaleFlux on future acceleration functions that can extend Aerospike’s value proposition as the leading, large scale hybrid memory database for real-time applications.”

CSS is available in both PCIe Card and U.2 form factors with up to 6.4TB of 3D NAND. Through a software package, both low-latency storage I/O and compute hardware acceleration are easily enabled without development effort or application re-compilation.

“CCSS is an innovative solution to complex, application-level bottlenecks,” said Jim Handy, general director, Objective Analysis. “ScaleFlux has found a way to combine this concept with the dramatic increase in flash deployment in virtually every data center.“