Five petabytes + in a single rack

As the exponential growth of Big Data continues to put significant strain on IT infrastructures and budgets, organizations are looking for a long-term solution to successfully ingesting, storing, processing and distributing data. While performance remains a key storage requirement, increasingly HPC, financial services and large enterprise customers are also looking for solutions that help reduce data center sprawl, power consumption, administrative overhead and overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Tuned for these critical needs of these markets, the DDNTM ultrahigh density SS8460 disk drive enclosures, in conjunction with the SFA™12K and SFA7700 storage platforms, now can handle up to 84 drives with 6 TB drives in just 4U rack space.

By nearly doubling the amount of storage in a single rack than was previously available, DDN offers up to 40 percent more density as compared to even the highest density storage array offerings available in the market today, thereby slashing Operational Expense by half and delivering unprecedented levels of performance and scalability for organizations looking to solve their Big Data challenges.

Beyond OPEX and CAPEX: Architectural Innovation that Delivers Flexibility, Reliability, Availability and Storage Optimization

Getting beyond the accounting conventions of OPEX and CAPEX, storage provisioning for Big Data today requires organizations rethink their approach to acquiring storage capacity, and balance capital outlay with a vendor’s ability to provide innovation and long-term value add. DDN solutions are designed to not only drive down costs but also address the storage needs of organizations with an innovative and unique architectural approach designed to improve storage management and anticipate customers’ future Big Data needs.

DDN has incorporated multiple innovative features in its Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) family of products and enclosures to make the company’s storage solutions the world’s densest. These innovations include being able to fit 84 high density drives in just 4U of rack space, designing components to generate as little heat as possible, and optimizing patterns of airflow to prevent hotspots to ensure that temperatures remain well within permissible limits.

These features, combined with the ability to freely intermix SSD with SATA and SAS hard disk drives, even within a single enclosure, allow administrators to align Big Data to the appropriate tier and ensure higher media utilization, improved reliability and outstanding performance at the lowest TCO.