The company's previous generation router, the Accelerator, was 5%to 8% slower at serving up IOPS than the Accela, according toWhiptail CEO Dan Crain. The Invicta all-flash array can support up to 12,000 virtualdesktops and offer up to 7.5GBps of sustained throughput. Thearray, which uses an InfiniBand backplane to add additional modulararrays, can attach to servers via Fibre Channel, iSCSI FibreChannel over Ethernet, Network File System (NFS), CIFS andInfiniBand SRP. Whiptail competes against several others in the all-flash arraymarket, including Nimbus Data Systems, Violin Memory and TexasMemory Systems. The Invicta array's pricing starts at $50,000.
For that, users get1.5TB of capacity. Henry Baltazar, an analyst with 451 Research Group, said theInvicta marks a distinct upgrade from Whiptail's moremidrange-oriented products of the past. While "a couple" of vendors are coming out with scalable arrays,such as XtremIO, those products have yet to be launched, Baltazarsaid. Whiptail's appears to be the first in that category.
All-flash arrays are expensive, high-performance systems that arebuilt for applications requiring high throughput, such asrelational databases, big data analytics, large virtual desktopinfrastructures or processes requiring large batch workloads, suchas backups. "At this point, flash arrays are too expensive for many use casessuch as NAS and unstructured data storage. The need for highperformance storage for virtualization and databases is increasing rapidly, which will make flash arraysmore popular going forward. I would also point out that flasharrays can deliver high performance using a relatively small amountof rackspace, power and cooling, which should also be a factor whenconsidering [total cost of ownership]," Baltazar said. Launching Gantry Crane
Whiptail's new all-flash array can be configured in several RAIDschemes and has asynchronous replication and snapshot capabilityfor disaster recovery and business continuity. The Invicta can alsobe managed from within VMware vCenter with full support of VMware'svStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). The Invicta, which uses multi-level cell (MLC) flash, comes in 2U(3.5-in.-high) storage module chassis. Each chassis holds up to12TB of capacity and up to six chassis can be cobbled together forthe maximum system capacity along with a single 2U router unit. China Wire Rope Hoists
Afull rack consumes 1400 watts, which represents a reduction inenergy use of up to 90%, compared to legacy hard-disk-drive arrays,according to Crain. "This is the largest single-capacity SSD array made," Crain said. One of the Invicta's strong points is its ability to serve up datain a multi-tenancy architecture, meaning that multiple businessunits, or businesses in the case of a cloud storage provider, can all share the same storage pool, Crain said.Additionally, the Invicta is backward-compatible, meaningWhiptail's previous generation, single-chassis SSD arrays, can beused in an Invicta configuration. That previous-generation unit had24 SSDs for up to 12TB of capacity and 230,000 IOPS of performance. Double Girder Overhead Cranes Manufacturer
The company also launched a new version of that single-unit arraythat it said is 5% to 8% faster. The flash array market remains a relatively small one compared withthe multibillion-dollar hard-disk-array market, Baltazar said,adding that flash will not lead to the extinction of disks. "The high storage density and low cost of disk should keep harddrives around for a long time, and hard drives will continue to bethe best medium for storing infrequently accessed data and largefiles such as video," he said. Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and businesscontinuity, financial services infrastructure and healthcare IT forComputerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed.
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For that, users get1.5TB of capacity. Henry Baltazar, an analyst with 451 Research Group, said theInvicta marks a distinct upgrade from Whiptail's moremidrange-oriented products of the past. While "a couple" of vendors are coming out with scalable arrays,such as XtremIO, those products have yet to be launched, Baltazarsaid. Whiptail's appears to be the first in that category.
All-flash arrays are expensive, high-performance systems that arebuilt for applications requiring high throughput, such asrelational databases, big data analytics, large virtual desktopinfrastructures or processes requiring large batch workloads, suchas backups. "At this point, flash arrays are too expensive for many use casessuch as NAS and unstructured data storage. The need for highperformance storage for virtualization and databases is increasing rapidly, which will make flash arraysmore popular going forward. I would also point out that flasharrays can deliver high performance using a relatively small amountof rackspace, power and cooling, which should also be a factor whenconsidering [total cost of ownership]," Baltazar said. Launching Gantry Crane
Whiptail's new all-flash array can be configured in several RAIDschemes and has asynchronous replication and snapshot capabilityfor disaster recovery and business continuity. The Invicta can alsobe managed from within VMware vCenter with full support of VMware'svStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). The Invicta, which uses multi-level cell (MLC) flash, comes in 2U(3.5-in.-high) storage module chassis. Each chassis holds up to12TB of capacity and up to six chassis can be cobbled together forthe maximum system capacity along with a single 2U router unit. China Wire Rope Hoists
Afull rack consumes 1400 watts, which represents a reduction inenergy use of up to 90%, compared to legacy hard-disk-drive arrays,according to Crain. "This is the largest single-capacity SSD array made," Crain said. One of the Invicta's strong points is its ability to serve up datain a multi-tenancy architecture, meaning that multiple businessunits, or businesses in the case of a cloud storage provider, can all share the same storage pool, Crain said.Additionally, the Invicta is backward-compatible, meaningWhiptail's previous generation, single-chassis SSD arrays, can beused in an Invicta configuration. That previous-generation unit had24 SSDs for up to 12TB of capacity and 230,000 IOPS of performance. Double Girder Overhead Cranes Manufacturer
The company also launched a new version of that single-unit arraythat it said is 5% to 8% faster. The flash array market remains a relatively small one compared withthe multibillion-dollar hard-disk-array market, Baltazar said,adding that flash will not lead to the extinction of disks. "The high storage density and low cost of disk should keep harddrives around for a long time, and hard drives will continue to bethe best medium for storing infrequently accessed data and largefiles such as video," he said. Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and businesscontinuity, financial services infrastructure and healthcare IT forComputerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed.
His email address is . See more by Lucas Mearian on Computerworld.com . Read more about storage in Computerworld's Storage Topic Center.
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