MaxLinear Compression and Security Coprocessor for Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash Storage Array

MaxLinear, Inc. announced that the hardware compression solution offered by the XR9240 coprocessor will support the Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash storage array portfolio.

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The XR9240’s parallel data processing engines enable all-flash array storage systems to optimize inline data reduction, both deduplication and compression, without compromising bandwidth or latency. It delivers 40Gb/s of simultaneous compression, encryption and hashing with compression ratios better than gzip level 4 and latency measured in the tens of microseconds.

This coprocessor was designed for enterprise storage systems and includes data integrity features such as Real Time Verification (RTV) and built-in Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC) as well as a full suite of encryption algorithms to ensure data security.

The XR9240 is designed to deliver higher compression ratios than alternative hardware accelerators or software. In addition, it offloads deduplication and encryption processes without compromising system bandwidth and latency. Dell EMC‘s engineers can simultaneously maximize application performance and storage capacity in VMAX All-Flash arrays with inline data reduction from the XR9240 coprocessor.

“The XR9240 offloads computationally intensive compression and security algorithms from the system CPU,” said Colin Earle, senior director, marketing, interface products, MaxLinear. “This offload frees up system processor cores to do what they were meant to do: deliver maximum application performance, not waste precious cycles compressing and hashing data.“