In this episode, Chris talks to Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat about the announcement of SSA II, the second generation all-flash InfiniBox platform. The first generation SSA (solid state array) was developed to address a customer requirement that all long-tail latency I/Os must be delivered at all-flash levels of performance. The InfiniBox architecture is capable of delivering up to 95% of I/O from DRAM, but for some customers, that figure simply wasn't high enough.

With SSA II, Infinidat has moved to the Intel Cascade Lake architecture, adding a further 48 cores of processing. In addition, the InfiniBox software has been enhanced to include InfiniSafe and InfiniOps, a combination of AIOps and integrations with common application platforms. The enhancements enable SSA II to deliver I/O as low as 35µs, with real world 70/30 read/write mix of 50µs (read) and 70µs (write). A demonstration on customer performance I/O can be seen in this pre-recorded presentation (registration required).

The new InfiniSafe technology mirrors that introduced into the InfiniGuard platform a few months ago. We discussed this in depth with Eric in episode #227. Further information on SSA II can be found in the Infinidat press release (here).

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Timeline

00:00:00 - Intros

00:01:15 - SSA II has been announced - but what is SSA?

00:03:00 - InfiniBox uses neural cache to deliver low latency

00:06:00 - What's new in SSA II? Cores and Processors to start

00:07:15 - What are the metrics? 35 microseconds - cache hits

00:09:10 - High performance is based on new architectures

00:11:00 - Why do vendors hide away from real-world numbers?

00:13:20 - What software changes are in SSA II?

00:14:00 - InfiniSafe has been added to SSA II

00:19:00 - Cyber-resilience needs to be deployed on primary storage

00:19:30 - SSA II introduces InfiniOps to the InfiniBox family

00:22:00 - Containers are supported on SSA II with CSI, Red Hat OpenShift & VMware Tanzu

00:28:15 - SSA II is available from today and existing SSA gets a software upgrade

00:31:10 - Wrap Up

Related Podcasts & Blogs

#227 - Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog

#202 - Enterprise Storage Consolidation with Phil Bullinger from Infinidat

#166 - Infinidat Elastic Storage Pricing with Eran Brown

#222 - End of the Year Show 2021 - Part Two

#173 - Transparent Enterprise Storage Pricing

The Quiet Success of Infinidat

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