ScaleFlux Launches Suite of Products Based on SFX 3000 Storage Processing Units

ScaleFlux, Inc. announced a suite of products based on its new chip, ScaleFlux 3000 (SFX 3000) storage processing units.

This also includes Computational Storage optimized (‘CSware’) software to make it easier for customers to adopt Computational Storage across a wider range of use cases. The company has showcased this suite of products at OCP Summit, taking place Nov. 9-10 in San Jose, CA.

“Organizations are challenged by the deluge of data that needs to be stored, transferred, and processed to support the data-centric economy. Computational Storage is the solution, helping alleviate compute and memory bottlenecks, reducing data movement, and improving the ROI of data center and IT infrastructure,” said Hao Zhong, co-founder and CEO. “With this new suite of products, we are making it easier than ever for organizations to adopt and realize the benefit of Computational Storage at scale.“

With the company‘s next gen suite of products, users can deploy ‘Computational Storage’ more easily while addressing a variety of issues, such as storage costs and density, compute efficiency (performance per server, per watt), latency inconsistency, SSD endurance, and data movement. Furthermore, the company provides CSware software: a mix of turnkey and example code to broaden adoption and deepen Computational Storage functions’ value and ease-of-use. This streamlines the process for customers to adopt ‘Computational Storage Drives’ and across additional market segments, such as traditional NVMe SSDs, ‘Computational Storage Processor’ (CSP) cards, and SoC solution.

Product suite, based on the ARM technology, is comprised of 4 offerings, including:

• SFX 3000 series SoC of storage processing units: Allows both drive and hardware vendors to develop their own SSDs and accelerator cards. For them, the firm‘s inclusion of turnkey firmware will shorten the drive development cycle and reduce the development costs.

• CSD 3000 series NVMe computational storage drives: The next gen of the company’s CSD 2000, it enables users to flash storage costs by 3x while doubling application performance and increasing flash endurance as much as 9x compared to ordinary drives. Additionally, users can deploy application-specific, distributed compute functions via the Arm cores.

• NSD 3000 series NVMe SSDs: Provides users with a smarter NVMe SSD, achieving 2x endurance and 2x performance on random write and mixed R/Ws over other NVMe drives.

• CSP 3000 series: Brings the compression, encryption, and programmable functions to users looking to leverage Computational Storage, but not wanting to deploy CSDs.

“Computational storage generates insight where the data is stored, providing businesses with quick and easy access to vital information – it’s a key market for Arm, which is why we have a dedicated team focused on this area,” said Mohamed Awad, VP, IoT and embedded, arm Ltd. “Based on proven Arm technology, ScaleFlux’s new product suite will open up opportunities for software and system developers to deploy computational storage across a range of new applications from ML to edge computing, creating even more value to businesses.“

“In some application scenarios, with the CSD 2000, we are able to reduce storage costs with TLC and to expand the applications for QLC,” said technical leader, Tencent Cloud “We are excited to see how CSD 3000 and other new capabilities will further amplify these benefits.”

ScaleFlux’s suite of products are available in beta and will be available in Spring 2022.

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