Next-Generation Storage for Data-Intensive Environments

At up to 3.2 million IOPs and 90GB/sec from a single 4U appliance, the SFA18K® is the fastest storage solution in the industry today, and delivers the highest density available with the ability to drive an unmatched number of flash (NVMe and SAS) devices and spinning drives in the least amount of space.

This extreme level of density makes the SFA18K ideal for data centers with limited space, or any high-performance environment wanting to be able to expand capacity without adding the complexity of many appliances to manage and the cost of powering and cooling a large number of controllers.

Data Growth is a Challenge and a Strategic Opportunity

Data-intensive Enterprise and HPC communities recognize that one of the biggest challenges we face is the ability to manage and take advantage of huge data growth. Compute performance grows at a much faster rate than storage media performance, and data is growing faster than compute, so it is no surprise that the majority of users agree that performance is the number one storage and Big Data challenge, and that storage has become the most strategic part of the high performance data center.

Pavilion’s Storage Platform delivers the next generation of composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) by separating storage from computing resources to allow them to scale and grow independently.

Faster Drives and Interconnects do not Solve the Problem

There are several technologies that will each help in at least one dimension of the problem: access, performance or growth. New flash products raise the performance of an individual drive. Private, public, and hybrid cloud offer some cost and capacity relief to certain classes of data. Higher performance networks will drive data into and out of compute faster. New technologies like burst buffers will speed applications. But each of these alleviates only one part of the problem.

Hyper-Converged Platform Accelerates and Balances New Technology

The revolutionary SFA18K is the highest performance block storage and hyper-converged platform in the industry today with an architecture that harnesses the power of the latest technologies, accelerates them with DDN high-performance software features and balances them to deliver the fastest performance with the lowest latency.

Declustered RAID

As disk and solid state drive densities continue to grow, limitations in the flexibility of traditional RAID configurations become apparent. Constantly increasing drives sizes mean that drive rebuild times are increasing as well. In traditional RAID rebuilds are limited by reading from 9 disks to write to one. SFA Declustered RAID (DCR) significantly improves rebuild performance by increasing the pool of disks which participate in backing a redundancy group, allowing reading and writing to many times the RAID member count (eg 10 disks in 8+2).