Unlocking performance and efficiency in Software-Defined Storage (SDS)
With ScaleFlux Computational Storage Drives
Key customer benefits
Enhanced Data Throughput
Achieve higher data transfer rates to support demanding applications
Penalty Free Data Reduction
Leverage data compression to save storage costs without hurting application performance
Improved Cluster Efficiency
Complete jobs faster and with less hardware to improve power and cost efficiency
“croit Ceph management software installs or upgrades Ceph in minutes and allows managing up to 50 PB with just one FTE supported 24×7 by the croit global support team.“
– Evan Miller, CEO croit North America Inc.
Challenge: Petabyte-scale struggles
Getting SDS to keep up with performance demands for critical applications
A leading financial services industry firm found their SDS was becoming problematic for their market research workloads, with the cluster performance unable to keep up with growing application demands. The result: long job processing times and inefficient use of the compute resources.
Solution: A better SSD with write reduction technology
Deploy ScaleFlux CSDs to unleash application performance
The ScaleFlux CSD 3000 with write reduction technology minimizes read/write interference at the NAND level. Not only does this result in higher performance and lower latency, but it also allows the user to store more data per TB of Flash (i.e. increases effective capacity or TBe). Using hardware engines in the SSD controller to perform the data compression avoids the typical penalties that occur with CPU-based compression.
Results: A more efficient, more cost-effective, and more feature-rich SDS solution
Scale performance, capacity, and capability by offloading data compression to purpose-built processors in the SSDs
ScaleFlux drives are the best SSDs for SDS. With the compression/decompression engines built into each SSD, there’s no worry of clogging up the CPU and losing out on performance scaling as additional drives are added. The compression function happens transparently and is managed via standard NVMe commands. CSD 3000 brings added functionality that SDS solutions have struggled to provide while still meeting users’ demanding SLAs.
