DriveScale Supporting Intel Optane DC SSDs for NVMe-oF

DriveScale, Inc., in elastic bare-metal cloud infrastructure, announced support for Intel Optane SSDs providing secure, elastic storage and compute node configuration for low-latency infrastructure composed over a standard Ethernet network using NVMe-oF enabling users to expand, reduce or replace storage on-the-fly.

Optane DC SSDs combine attributes of memory and storage with higher throughput, lower latency, higher QoS, and higher endurance than NAND flash making them for fast storage, extended memory and caching use cases with applications that require predictably fast response times. They support the NVMe interface and DriveScale automatically sets up the NVMe data fabric whether it is NVMe/RDMA, NVMe/TCP or NVMe over multi-path iSCSI.

The combined solution offers increased data availability with dual-ported Optane DC SSDs supporting third-party dual controller storage systems and DriveScale load balancing and data placement capabilities.

“AI, ML, OLTP and advanced data analytics customers are hungry for the highest performance, lowest-latency solution that scales with the demands of their workloads and data,” said Denise Shiffman, chief product officer. “With DriveScale, users can flexibly deploy Optane DC SSD storage with compute nodes and GPU nodes disaggregating resource life-cycles and reducing operations costs and complexity.“