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SanDisk and IBM have announced a collaboration to bring out a class of next-generation, software-defined, all-flash storage solutions for the data centre. At the core of this collaboration are SanDisk’s InfiniFlash System — a high-cappacity and extreme-performance flash-based software defined storage system, featuring IBM Spectrum Scale filesystem. The joint solution of software-defined all-flash storage addresses the escalating data centre challenges of scale, performance, agility and break-through economics.

The InfiniFlash for IBM Spectrum Scale Solution is a scale-out, ultra-dense system combined with IBM Spectrum Scale and allows private, hybrid and public cloud customers to enable Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) by starting small and growing to multiple petabytes. InfiniFlash delivers best-in-class cost per IOPS/TB and the ability to scale compute and storage independently, while delivering the high reliability and low failure rate of flash, resulting in breakthrough capex and opex savings. The joint flash storage solution will address use cases such as clustered scale-out high performance NAS, Big Data In-Place analytics and OpenStack for files.

Our initiative with IBM brings the best of both worlds to data centres: breakthrough economics compared to traditional all-flash array deployments, and dramatically higher performance, improved reliability and lower power consumption compared to hard disk drive-based arrays, said Ravi Swaminathan, vice president and general manager, System and Software Solutions, SanDisk. These offerings enable customers to economically deploy flash at petabyte-scale, which drive business growth through new services and offerings for their end-customers.
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