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WhipTail™ Technologies, based in Summit, N.J. provides
solid-state storage appliances designed to drastically reduce disk contention
and access times – allowing database or virtualization servers to process
more data in dramatically less time. WhipTail™, a patent pending
solid-state storage appliance that accelerates the delivery of data by a factor
of 10 when compared to traditional storage, is the company's flagship product.
WhipTail's technology combines the latest high-tech storage hardware with expert
software to maximize throughput and simplify management of transaction intensive
and mission-critical applications. Additional information may be found on the
company's Web site: www.whiptailtech.com.
WhipTail
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- March 2010 - WhipTail's product is an
application specific rackmount
SSD which includes inbuilt
deduplication.
Many other SSDs are faster
or cheaper. Whether this is the right type of product depends on your overall
situation - such as the apps you're running and how many SSDs will be needed in
your environment. In some ways these types of products have similar cost/benefit
profiles to SSD ASAPs.
They are more likely to suit smaller customer environments in which the
investment in human tuning is a high cost relative to the total value of
SSD installed.
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WhipTail recent milestones from
SSD market
history
In February 2009 - WhipTail Tech announced
details of its
iSCSI compatible 2U
rackmount RAID protected SSDs. Available with 1.5TB (price approx $60,000) or
3TB capacities the systems internally use COTS flash SSDs managed by
EasyCo's MFT technology
which significantly improves write IOPS and endurance.
In
April 2009 -
WhipTail named 5
new channel partners who are selling its rackmount flash SSDs. This followed
another recent announcement that WhipTail had appointed John Zamites as its
channel manager.
In
July 2009 - WhipTail
Technologies announced a 6TB version of its 2U SSD appliance.
Pricing starts at $46,000 for a 1.5 TB system.
WhipTail's CEO, Ed
Rebholz said "One of
Tier 0 storage's
downfalls to date has been the perception within the industry that it's too
expensive. Since WhipTail's introduction earlier this year, we've already made
significant strides in helping our industry peers to gain a new perspective. And
in introducing the 6TB capacity, not only is WhipTail setting the bar for
performance, footprint and affordability, but now we're the SSD capacity leader."
Editor's
comments:- it's certainly the highest density server acceleration SSD I'm
aware of. But you should be aware that the internal flash is MLC (and not
SLC) which is
a bird of a
different feather. The memory type wasn't stated in the original text of
the press release.
A company spokesperson assured me that WhipTail
manages the write cycle to ensure that the MLC disks last a minimum of 7 years
when under load.
Other competing 2U SSDs in this capacity range
include:- the
RamSan-620 a 5TB SLC
flash SSD from Texas
Memory Systems and the Violin
1010 a 4TB SLC flash SSD from
Violin Memory.
In
October 2009 - WhipTail
Technologies became the 1st SSD appliance company to market integrated
in-line deduplication.
WhipTail announced
it will ship its newly renamed Racerunner (6TB) NAS SSDs with
Exar's Hifn
BitWackr
deduplication and compression solution in Q4 2009. Racerunner has demonstrated
deduplication performance in excess of 1Gbps.
In February 2010
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StorageSearch.com published a new
directory on the subject of - Solid
State Storage Backup (S3B).
In March 2010 -
WhipTail Technologies
announced a Europe wide distribution and support agreement with
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Editor:- October 17, 2016 -
Exabyte SSD Appliance emerged
from stealth mode and today
announced a $400
million series C
funding round and
immediate availability of its new Paranoid S3B series - a 2U entry level
Solid State Backup appliance
with 1PB (uncompressed) capacity.
Sustainable sequential R/W speeds
are 12GB/s, random performance is 400K IOPS (MB blocks). Latency is 10
microseconds (for accesses to awake blocks) and 20 milli-seconds (for data
accesses to blocks in sleep mode.) ...read more | | |
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are
hundreds
of articles about SSDs on StorageSearch.com |
Here, below, are some
examples.
- RAM Cache
Ratios in flash SSDs - it's important to know the underlying RAM cache
architecture - even if you're happy with the R/W and IOPS performance.
- 2010 - 1st Fizz
in the SSD Bubble? - even the dogs in the street know this is going to be a
multibillion dollar market. Greed will play as big a part as technology in
shaping the
SSD year ahead.
- the pros and cons of
using SSD ASAPs - auto tuning SSD appliances are a new category of SSD
which entered the market in the 2nd half of 2009 to accelerate servers without
needing human tune-ups. How can you tell if they are right for you? And how
well do they work?
- the Problem
with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs - long established as a useful performance
modeling metric - this article explains why some specs are exaggerated when
applied to flash SSDs - or predict the wrong results for many common
applications.
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