Largest building block option with the highest performance & capacity storage.
Advanced configuration & monitoring solution to simplify management and optimize IT operations.
High Performance Solutions for Big Data: Setting the Bar in Both Bandwidth & lOPS
Eliminate bottlenecks & speed time to results
Accelerate financial analytics with high performance DDN Storage.
The SFA™12K product family is purpose-built to simplify and tame big data growth, enabling you to architect and scale your environment more intelligently, efficiently and cost effectively than ever before.
Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company's high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.
Introducing the SFA12K, the world's fastest storage & compute platform for Big Data
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The Hybrid Flash Storage Appliance with Application-Acceleration to Maximize Big Data Insights
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Leverage industry leading storage performance to satisfy growing IOPS & Bandwidth requirements with the fewest number of systems. Single systems provide up to 40GB/s and reaching 1TB/s can be achieved in just 25 systems.
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Choosing SFA12K's industry leading performance, capacity density and In-Storage Processing as your storage building block, means deploying the fewest number of systems to manage, power and maintain.
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Redundant & non-blocking internal SAS fabric provides the internal bandwidth needed to support data protection & access concurrency. This high-speed conduit to HDDs and SSDs aggregate performance and allow for easy consolidation. SFA12K protects performance during drive rebuilds, while competing systems lose as much as 40%.
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Maximize your SSD investment. Only SFA12K eliminates the need for the expensive PCI flash solutions that are used to overcome the anemic backend networking of traditional storage systems. DDN accelerates transactions and provides a lower TCO per IOPS.
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Resolve space and power limitations with the industry's densest storage platform. Each enclosure houses 84 drives in just 4U to deliver up to 3.4PB per rack.
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DDN's breakthrough innovation enables latency-sensitive applications to live right inside of the storage controller. Enjoy the fastest application performance available with up to 16 embedded virtual machines while removing the need to purchase and manage external servers, network adapters and switches.
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Deploying, managing and scaling file storage has never been easier. The SFA12K-20E arrives pre-configured with the file system embedded right inside the storage controller's virtual machines, eliminating the need for external servers, network adapters and switches. Each appliance provides 20GB/s of bandwidth to simplify performance scaling and accelerate applications.
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| Maximum Drives | 1,680 | 1,680 | 1,680 |
| Interface(s) | FDR InfiniBand 16Gb FC | FDR InfiniBand 40Gb Ethernet | FDR InfiniBand 16Gb FC |
| Drive Types | 3.5" & 2.5" eMLC SSD, SATA, SAS (inter-mixable) | ||
| Maximum Capacity | 6.72PB (w/4TB) | 6.72PB (w/4TB) | 6.72PB (w/4TB) |
| Bandwidth | 20GB/s (raw) | 20GB/s (file) | 35-40GB/s (raw) |
| Cache IOPS | 850K | 850K | 1.7M |
| Flash IOPS | 700K | 700K | 1.4M |
| In-Storage Processing | No | Yes: GRIDScaler™, EXAScaler™, Other | No |
