DDN unveils big data appliances

data array technology in small data arrays that can grow to become big ones, and come at a lower price point, Channel Register reports.

The SFA10K-Ms are pint-sized versions of DDN's SFA series of high-performance computing and now big data arrays.

According to Tech Week Europe, the SFA10K-ME features DDN's In-Storage Processing technology and is built with high-speed server virtualisation technology to co-locate big data applications closest to data and eliminate the need for storage processing and networking.

As a high-speed block storage appliance, the SFA10K-M, featuring InfiniBand or Fibre Channel connection, can be configured to deliver up to 10GB per second in only 20U, supports up to 720TB of capacity, and can be scaled out with any of DDN's file storage offerings as a modular big data building block.

In addition, the SFA10K-ME configurations, featuring InfiniBand or Ethernet connection, can be configured to support DDN's GridScaler and ExaScaler parallel file system software to scale file system performance beyond 1TB per second and volume capacity beyond 10 petabytes.

“One of the key attributes of today's big data is the lack of predictability of data growth across customer environments,” HPC Wire quotes Alex Bouzari, CEO of DDN, as saying.

“[The] announcement of our SFA10K-M and SFA10K-ME platforms is an important step in furthering the democratisation of big data and enabling our customers to resolve big data unpredictability by starting small and growing incrementally into massively scalable big data technology.”