13 November 2015

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched what’s claimed to be the highest performance hybrid storage and hyper-converged platforms in the industry today. 

It says the new SFA14K and SFA14KE deliver the world’s fastest, densest storage with more than six million IOPS and 60Gbps in 4U with scalability to nearly 7PB of capacity in a single rack. 

The SFA14K delivers hybrid block storage array performance and is the new flagship product in DDN’s product line. It features a suite of new technologies including the latest processor technologies, NVMe SSD, PCIe 3, EDR InfiniBand and Omni-Path.  

DDN says the SFA14K’s embedded PCIe fabric delivers 10 to 100 times latency reduction when replacing non-integrated alternative options from application to memory to storage. 

It also claims the platform’s IO acceleration increases the power of the innovation that can be delivered from each rack of data centre equipment. It says the SFA14K offers up to 16x higher per rack performance than its closest competitor.

Furthermore, the vendor says its solution’s hyper-convergence benefits reduce administration costs by 50 to 70 per cent over integrating and managing each discrete technology individually.

The SFA14KE is a hyper-converged solution that allows users to take advantage of the SFA14K’s performance while also leveraging the embedded processor power to run VMs, embedded applications and file systems within the storage array. DDN says all this will “significantly reduce” complexity, latency and data centre footprint.