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DriveScale Composable Platform Supports NVMe Over TCP

Uses of TCP for NVMe over Fabrics in conjunction with Composable Solution.

DriveScale, Inc. announced the next evolution of its Composable Platform, which includes support for NVMe over TCP.

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With this company’s release, enterprise organizations now have access to the latest NVMe standard, which addresses the needs of big data and ML applications that require higher performance from their storage solutions. By offering a software-only solution that supports NVMe over TCP, the firm is helping customers stay ahead of the curve as legacy infrastructure solutions struggle to adapt to modern workloads.

Companies today have the ability to use advanced analytics to inform business strategy, streamline operations, identify fraud and engage in real time with customers to impact company growth, across any industry. McKinsey reports that ML, deep learning and other advanced analytics will unlock up to $15 trillion in value annually across all industries. To unlock this value, IT teams are storing more data and need to find solutions that scale compute and storage and at the same time are still cost-effective.

The demand for data analytics workloads is increasing at a rate far outpacing IT budget growth driving IT organizations to find new ways to better utilize their compute and storage resources. With DriveScale composable software, IT gains the advantages of cloud infrastructure in their own data center giving them a highly flexible solution that costs 50% less than what they deploy today,” said Denise Shiffman, chief product officer, DriveScale. “DriveScale composes compute resources with NVMe SSD storage which is then delivered over a standard Ethernet network fabric. The addition of standard TCP will enable broad deployment of composable NVMe in any data center.

Benefits of NVMe flash
NVMe provides a performance and latency advantage over SAS and SATA SSDs due to its highly parallel interface, deep queues and high endurance. There are many performance hungry applications that demand NVMe flash storage, including IoT streaming and machine learning-based applications. To enable the greatest utilization of the NVMe drives, the company enables users to carve these drives into variable-sized slices and attach them over a network to any compute node. With the firm’s solution, users create flexible, adaptable logical servers of any ratio of compute to storage, whether HDDs or SSDs are deployed. This enables any data center to become an elastic cloud.

What’s really exciting about NVMe over TCP is that it enables efficient end-to-end NVMe operations over any standard IP network with excellent performance and low latency,” said Brian Pawlowski, CTO, DriveScale. “This allows large-scale data centers, such as those adopting DriveScale’s Composable Platform, to utilize their existing ubiquitous Ethernet infrastructure. With NVMe over TCP’s inherent simplicity and ease-of-use, both human and capital costs are reduced.

About Composable Infrastructure
It is a next gen infrastructure designed to flexibly create, adapt, deploy and later re-deploy servers on the fly using pools of disaggregated and heterogeneous compute, storage and network fabric. It enables users to orchestrate logical servers, providing flexibility in composition and scale. Performance is equivalent to DAS and no changes are required to the application stack. This empowers any IT organization to easily and instantly provision and modify data center infrastructure to match changing application workloads.

NVMe over TCP is a standard feature included in the company’s Composable Platform which is sold globally through a network of reseller partners, including Dell EMC. Cloud and enterprise data centers interested in the firm’s solution can request a demo and onsite trial via the company’s website.

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