DDN intros SFA12K big data appliances

CHATSWORTH, USA: Information storage company DataDirect Networks (DDN) unveiled three new models of storage fusion architecture (SFA) series SFA12K big data appliances.

"The exponential growth of Big Data is putting significant strain on IT infrastructures and challenging organizations' ability to successfully ingest, store, process and distribute data," said Alex Bouzari, CEO and cofounder, DataDirect Networks. "With the SFA12K series' groundbreaking ability to virtualize applications and store and process within the same appliance, we are delivering ideal storage and compute infrastructure solutions for organizations worldwide."

The three new models are SFA12K-40, SFA12K-20E and SFA12K-20.

SFA12K-40 provides single-platform performance at over 40GB/s and 1.4 Million Flash IOPS. With InifniBand and fibre channel connectivity, the system is designed to scale file storage systems to 1TB/s and beyond with even 25 arrays, enabling consolidation as much as 8:1 as opposed to competing technology such as that from NetApp, claims the company in a release.

SFA12K-20E features virtualization and x86 co-processing, and extends DDN's In-Storage Processing offering, first announced in 2009. With 40Gb Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity, each SFA12K-20E delivers 20GB/s of bandwidth and 700K Flash IOPS.

SFA12K-20 delivers over 20GB/s and 700K Flash IOPS from a single system.

Each new appliance is powered by DDN's new StorageScaler 8460 (SS8460) high-density storage enclosure. they are capable of housing up to 84 3.5" and 2.5" SATA, SAS and SSD devices in only 4U of rack space.

SFA12K systems will be shipped in the second quarter of 2012.