Burlywood: Trueflash Insight for Analyzes Traffic at Drive Controller Level

Burlywood, Inc. introduced Trueflash Insight, a solution that analyzes traffic at the drive controller level to understand how flash is being used and delivers an application-optimized environment that provides better performance, more efficient use of flash and longer drive life.

Trueflash Insight is a suite of tools that monitors traffic patterns at the drive level, collects this valuable telemetry, and provides visualization of these data combined with an SSD that can be tuned and optimized to exactly match the workloads running on them. This takes the guesswork out of choosing the right SSD for the job, saving money and preventing costly downtime.

“While there are several analytic tools available on the market today, having knowledge about a particular environment isn’t as valuable if you aren’t able to use this information quickly and easily to improve your storage,” said George Crump, president and founder, Storage Switzerland. “What Burlywood is able to accomplish by collecting information at the drive controller, is to understand how their customers’ flash is really used and perform full-service, application-centric optimization to make efficient use of storage.“

Trueflash Insight gathers a set of data that are factors in SSD and application performance. Unlike analysis tools, such as bus analyzers, that can capture onlys of information from a single drive, it can collect hours – and even days – of telemetry from multiple drives that can be critical to understanding how applications perform over time. After understanding workloads, data traffic patterns and feature requirements, the Trueflash software is optimized to create SSDs that are matched to each and every application in the datacenter.

Theh storage software solution is optimized to customer applications, uses flash more efficiently and delivers improved performance in a more cost-effective manner than current SSDs. It allows for the use of the latest flash technology with better performance, earlier in the lifecycle of flash nodes. Integrated multi-stream QoS provides advanced traffic management and consistent performance, tuning it to match the needs of customers’ environments and workloads. The company’s architecture supports data center needs including NVMe, SATA, computational storage and AI.

“SSDs represent one of the biggest expenses in building cloud storage as well as being one of the top sources of failure and frustration,” said Tod Earhart, CEO, Burlywood. “Because there hasn’t been a god method to analyze the effects of contantly changing workloads on flash storage, the wrong SSD for the job is often deployed. Trueflash Insight is the only solution on the market that can utilize deep analytics to take the guesswork out of flash for your datacenter by providing deep understanding of application behavior and then tuning and optimizing SSDs to perfectly match your workloads.“

Trueflash allows for innovation and customization, reducing time to market or time to production. It is a customizable flash solution that is drop-in compatible with existing storage protocols, form factors and architectures. Trueflash Insight is available as a service from the company. Firm’s representatives will provide expert technical setup and analysis of customers’ application workload that will pinpoint areas of tuning to optimize performance for applications.

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