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Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage company, enables
the broad deployment of flash in the data center. When compared to traditional
disk-centric arrays, Pure Storage all-flash enterprise arrays are 10x faster and
10x more space and power efficient at a price point that is less than
performance disk per gigabyte stored. The Pure Storage FlashArray is ideal for
high performance workloads, including server virtualization, desktop
virtualization (VDI), database (OLTP, real-time analytics) and cloud computing.
For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
see also:-
Pure Storage's blog
- editor's comments:- August 2011 -
Pure Storage -
which operates in the fast-enough and bulk enterprise storage SSD market -
recently emerged from stealth mode and announced it had received $30 million in
series C funding bringing its total capital funding up to $55 million.
The
company markets an FC
SAN compatible SSD storage
array which superficially looks like a classic
RAID system with removable
MLC drives. However,
the company says that its architecture has been designed from the ground up -
with the aim of delivering usable storage capacity at price points below
that of enterprise HDD storage - while also being capable of offering
moderately high performance
IOPS and
throughput.
The product does that by combining elements such as inline
dedupe and
compression - which is similar to what the market has already seen from
earlier rackmount SSD vendors such as
WhipTail Technologies
and Nimbus Data Systems.
Pure
Storage 's
FlashArray
is assembled from a series of 2U storage racks and controllers which provide a
raw uncompressed MLC SSD storage density of just under 3TB per U - which is
3x lower than vanilla FC SAN MLC SSDs such as the
RamSan-810
from Texas Memory Systems.
Pure Storage 's array delivers about 6x lower IOPS per rack unit
too.
So you may ask - where's the market?
At 50K IOPS / u -
it's more than fast enough to outrun traditional
hard disk arrays. And
with a 10x virtual capacity reduction - Pure Storage clains its SSD
arrays will cost less than HDD arrays - offering 25TB of compressed storage per
U and at much lower power consumption too. |
