SFA Technology Advantage

Breaking Down Barriers

As the world's leading storage provider for performance and capacity bound applications -- DataDirect Networks (DDN) has a rich history of proven industry leadership in solving extreme storage challenges. Fueled by the success of S2A Storage Technology, DDN has diligently been reinvesting all of its storage successes into developing the next generating of Extreme Storage.

Built from the experience developed by supporting the largest web sites, archive facilities, 100s of the world's largest supercomputers and over 450 media production facilities --DDN has understood and planned for the future of storage.

The future is Storage Fusion Architecture.

Breaking Down Barriers by Delivering Balanced Throughput and IOPS

The unstructured data landscape is changing. For years, the storage industry has designed systems that are optimized for either transaction-based computing or large file serving (throughput). DDN has focused on and become the leader in the large file, throughput market. During this time, the evolution of processor technology has ushered in multi-core systems to increase compute capacity and performance. Multiple simultaneous (multi-threaded) throughput operations tax storage systems as they tend to look like a mixed workload requiring high IOPS rather than simply high throughput. Storage systems must now be able to respond to heavily threaded I/O patterns by delivering transaction-optimized extreme storage bandwidth as well as high throughput.

10 years ago, DataDirect Networks defied conventional wisdom by designing storage systems that write as fast as they read and that deliver highly concurrent levels of streaming bandwidth. In 2009, DataDirect Networks is again revolutionizing storage by offering a storage system that delivers leadership levels of both throughput and IOPS.

Next Generation Storage Fusion Architecture

The DataDirect Networks' Storage Fusion Architecture fuses the best parts of today's advanced processor technology, busses and memory architecture with an optimized RAID engine and data management algorithms. These are tightly integrated to derive peak performance out of a massive IO infrastructure and multi-media disk drives to maximize system performance and lower storage investment costs. The fusion of unprecedented levels of bandwidth and IOPS enable this system to serve as the storage foundation for any Extreme Storage application set.

Flexible Building Blocks

The design concepts of SFA are delivered across multiple controller and storage device platforms to encompass a comprehensive storage portfolio featuring DAS, SAN, NAS and VTL storage access.