Cloud Expo Europe: Mission Peak NVMe Flash Storage Array Demonstrated by E8 Storage and AIC

E8 Storage Systems Ltd. and AIC, Inc. have demonstrated Mission Peak, a high density, all-NVMe flash storage array at Cloud Expo Europe held at the London ExCel, UK.

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This array is a direct response to the increasing need for data-intensive applications such as AI, machine learning and HPC in datacenter environments.

E8 Storage’s recently launched stand-alone storage software sits at the heart of AIC’s Mission Peak array, allowing it to unleash the performance of NVMe SSDs with reliability, performance and availability. Mission Peak is also a flash storage array to make use of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.‘s 1U NF1 small form factor SSD, which includes up to 36 front-serviceable NF1 SSD bays with hot-swap functionality. Samsung’s updated form factor also ensures AIC’s array delivers improvements in memory storage capacity, IO/s, scaling and space utilization when compared to other 1U rack servers.

“We are excited to be bringing our new Mission Peak array to Cloud Expo Europe,” explains Michael Liang, president and CEO, AIC. “These arrays are very well suited to the requirements of cloud service companies and, in particular, the intense, unforgiving and unrelenting needs of their datacenters – where the pressure never lets up for greater capacity and processing speed within the most efficient, space-saving format. Mission Peak provides a solution for this tough environment through a combination of our innovative development, Samsung’s advanced form factor and E8 Storage’s industry-respected storage management software.“

With dual-socket Intel Corp.‘ Skylake-SP CPUs and up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs of memory, the array is for I/O-intensive local workloads, such as real-time analytics and database servers as well as financial and trading applications, business intelligence and transactional processing. Tests suggest that this 1U system can process about ten million random read IO/s, which triples the IO/s performance of a 1U server equipped with 2.5-inch SSDs. A petabyte capacity can be achieved using two of the 576TB systems.

“There’s no let-up on the need for enterprises to scale their storage requirements while reducing their storage footprint and improving storage performance,” comments Zivan Ori, co-founder and CEO, E8. “This delicate balancing act is only possible when storage arrays deploy strong, sophisticated and reliable storage management software. That’s why we are delighted to be working in partnership with AIC and Samsung to bring these new Mission Peak SSD arrays to market.“

“The massive increase and reliance on data hungry applications, means that datacenters continually crave better space and scale options,” concludes Chanik Park, VP, NAND memory planning, memory business, Samsung Electronics. “AIC’s use of our new form factor, in combination with its choice of E8 Storage’s cutting edge software-based storage management technology is bound to get people talking at Cloud Expo – especially when they see the system in operation and what it’s actually capable of achieving in real-time.“

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2018.02.08 | Press Release