NGD Systems: Computational Storage for Intelligent Edge

NGD Systems, Inc. announced the availability of a scalable and edge-ready M.2 form factor solution that delivers 8TB with AI-ready computational storage.

This infrastructure-enabling solution provides scalability and capacity in a compact form factor for edge computing, hyperscale and Open Infrastructure (OCP/Open19) environments. Customers leveraging the company’s breakthrough technology will see measurable improvements in power, cost and physical footprint.

“Customers are always looking for a way to improve their scale and efficiency. NGD has developed breakthrough technology that’s NAND-flash agnostic, delivers the optimal solution to meet customer requirements and is built on industry-proven Arm technology for our compute resources,” said Richard Mataya, EVP and co-founder, NGD. “NGD looks forward to seeing our expertise in HW design and SW development bring these new innovations to market. We believe this will fundamentally change the way data is stored and processed at the edge for content delivery networks (CDNs) and hyperscale environments.“

The storage ecosystem is evolving. Until now, hyperscale and edge compute platforms have relied on traditional storage infrastructure that lacks proper capacity and true usefulness. The company’s Newport Computational storage platform and M.2 offering more than double current available capacity and provide flash resources, all in a 22110 enterprise form factor. The platform’s programmable computational storage services (P-CSS) allow support for AI and other application workloads without moving data off the disk.

Based on ARM Ltd.‘s Cortex processors running a 64-bit Linux OS, the platform provides users flexibility of their compute resources. As new storage platforms have been developed to deploy M.2 SSDs at scale, previous capacity restrictions have complicated users’ ability to manage data growth in this reduced form factor. The company helps enable proper scale by removing this capacity gap and analyzing data at the source on high-capacity drives.

“Direct processing of terabytes of data ‘In-situ’ delivers significant benefits in terms of latency, bandwidth and power savings. This, combined with the increasing compute capabilities of storage controllers, is driving the adoption of computational storage solutions,” said Neil Werdmuller, director, storage solutions, ARM. “The M.2 Newport offers greater scalability and enables customers to utilize ARM’s investment in the Linux open-source ecosystem to rapidly deploy custom workloads to the drive.“

Product details include:

• M.2 22110 form factor

• Up to 8TB of raw capacity

• Average power of <1W/TB

• Power-loss protection

• Leading QoS

• In-situ processing to deliver compute to data

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March 15, 2019 | Press Release