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September 19, 2023Storage Unpacked 250 – Infinidat announces SSA Express and higher capacity SSA II (Sponsored)
In this episode Chris gets an update on new announcements from Infinidat, including SSA Express and higher-capacity SSA II systems. SSA Express is a new feature of the InfiniBox “classic” platform that allows customers to implement what looks like a virtual SSA (all-flash array) within a hybrid InfiniBox. The solution effectively pins volumes in SSD rather than allowing the data to cascade to the HDD layer, with the benefit of SSA performance for no additional cost on 95% of hardware in the field.
Infinidat has also introduced a new SSA II, the F4316T with up to 6.6PB of effective capacity, doubling the previous maximum. The F4304T has been discontinued, so to meet the requirements of customers to scale from small to large systems, the existing F4308T and new F4316T can be initially deployed at 60%, 80% and 100% full. This scale-up option gives customers choice on how to deploy and extend all-flash implementations.
More information on the new offerings can be found at https://www.infinidat.com/ and more details on Infinidat at our Infinidat Microsite.
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Timeline
00:00:00 – Intros
00:01:00 – Quick update on announcements this year
00:03:30 – Vendors need to be offering value-add
00:04:25 – SSA Express is a software upgrade to add an embedded all-flash array
00:05:30 – SSA gains expansion and scale-up capabilities
00:06:40 – What is the SSA (and SSA II)?
00:08:45 – SSA Express is a free software upgrade
00:10:55 – SSA Express is similar to pinned volumes
00:13:20 – Infinidat will validate the suitability for SSA Express
00:14:50 – Most vendors don’t retro-fit a feature across all historical platforms
00:16:55 – InfiniBox is generally deployed fully configured
00:18:20 – SSA now offers double capacity with F4316T
00:24:05 – The new scalability allows customers to grow capacity more easily
00:25:35 – Partially populated SSA II still runs at 100% performance
00:28:10 – Value add for the customer is important in the current market
00:31:35 – Wrap Up
Related Podcasts & Blogs
Storage Unpacked 247 – Infinidat announces InfuzeOS Cloud Edition and InfiniSafe Cyber Detection
Storage Unpacked 231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II
Storage Unpacked 227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog
Infinidat Microsite
The Quiet Success of Infinidat
Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #nf34
34 min
September 15, 2023 Storage Unpacked 249 – Introduction to Nyriad and the UltraIO Storage Platform
In this episode, Chris talks to Derek Dicker, CEO at Nyriad about the UltraIO storage array. Nyriad has developed a new storage architecture using GPUs that accelerate the calculations needed to store data using erasure coding. This enables UltraIO to implement system-wide data protection using erasure coding at the block level.

In contrast to most storage vendors in the market today, the UltraIO platform uses hard disk drives, with a GPU to process data ingested by the system, while data is presented back through the CPU route. This dual processor architecture enables Nyriad to deliver a product with 20GB/s of throughput, scale to multiple petabytes of capacity and provide dynamic data protection defined by the customer.

Nyriad sees UltraIO being used across four industries - HPC, Media & Entertainment, Backup and Recovery, and Active Archive. Essentially the solution excels at handling large volumes of unstructured data that needs high throughput processing.

Learn more about Nyriad, the origins of the solution with the Square Kilometre Array and customer examples at https://www.nyriad.io/

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Timeline

00:00:00 - Intros

00:01:40 - UltraIO was introduced in 2022

00:02:25 - Why is UltraIO different to traditional storage systems?

00:03:30 - GPUs can be used within data storage systems

00:04:10 - The Square Kilometre Array was an early customer

00:06:15 - UltraIO fits a specific set of requirements around data ingestion throughput

00:06:55 - UltraIO uses hard disk drives and erasure coding

00:08:00 - Ingested data is processed via GPU, then accessed by CPU

00:10:00 - Erasure coding allows customer-based resiliency settings

00:12:00 - The hardware for UltraIO uses standardised off the shelf hardware

00:14:50 - What markets does UltraIO fit? (HPC, M&E, Backup/Recovery & Active Archive)

00:16:15 - The UltraIO architecture has strong sustainability characteristics

00:18:45 - Most vendors have moved away from HDDs

00:23:00 - Digital Image replaced three systems with an UltraIO

00:24:20 - Don’t keep data forever!

00:26:35 - UltraIO helped Digital Glue deliver a media asset management solution

00:27:30 - System capacities are from one to three petabytes raw

00:29:15 - Nyriad works through the channel

00:31:00 - Wrap Up

Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #3erd
33 min
June 14, 2023 Storage Unpacked 248 – FlashArray R4 Announcements from Pure Accelerate 2023 (Sponsored)
In this episode, Chris talks to Dan Kogan from Pure Storage about the upgraded FlashArray R4 systems and new FlashArray//E platform.
33 min
May 24, 2023 Storage Unpacked 247 – Infinidat announces InfuzeOS Cloud Edition and InfiniSafe Cyber Detection (Sponsored)
In this episode, Chris discusses the latest announcements from Infinidat with CMO Eric Herzog, including a cloud version of the Infinidat platform and new cyber detection capabilities.
37 min
May 19, 2023 Storage Unpacked 246 – The Next Era of Serverless Technology with Matt Butcher from Fermyon
In this episode, Chris has a wide-ranging conversation with Fermyon co-founder and CEO, Matt Butcher. The main essence of the discussion is to look at serverless technologies and how storage features are integrated into that ecosystem.
54 min
May 12, 2023 Storage Unpacked 245 – Design Strategies for 300TB Flash Drives with Shawn Rosemarin from Pure Storage (Sponsored)
In this episode, Chris talks to Shawn Rosemarin (VP, R&D, Customer Engineering) from Pure Storage about the evolution towards 300TB direct flash modules, the custom-designed SSDs used in FlashArray and FlashBlade.
47 min
May 05, 2023 Storage Unpacked 244 – Unpacking GreenLake for File Storage with HPE and VAST Data (Sponsored)
In this episode, Chris catches up with Omer Asad (SVP & GM) from HPE and Phil Manez (Director of Channel Sales) from VAST Data to discuss the recent announcement of HPE GreenLake for File Storage, powered by VAST Data's Universal Storage platform.
37 min
March 01, 2023 Storage Unpacked 243 – Introducing FlashBlade//E (Sponsored)
In this episode, Chris chats to Pure Storage International CTO, Alex McMullan, about the announcement of FlashBlade//E.
35 min
February 24, 2023 Storage Unpacked 242 – The Filecoin Decentralised Storage Network
In this episode, Chris chats to Matt Hamilton, Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs about the Filecoin decentralised storage network.
40 min
January 13, 2023 Storage Unpacked 241 – Kubernetes Database Performance Testing and Container Native Storage
In this podcast episode, Chris reviews the results from a recent project with Ondat, which examines the relative efficiency of container-native storage solutions running common database platforms on Kubernetes.
48 min