The corporate market is inert. All projects are carried out with the expectation of a long time of operation. The main conditions are continuity and scaling of equipment. This explains the fact that solid-state memory arrays still coexist with hard disks, even in situations where the transition to SSD is long overdue. To facilitate the fastest transition to solid-state arrays for data storage, the NVMe protocol should facilitate the management of large arrays of information.
At the moment, there are two approaches for promoting NVMe in the corporate environment. One of them practices the supply of hybrid solutions with the ability to replace media in the future, and the second involves the sale of fully-ready platforms with NVMe support, not only at the device level, but also at the platform level. The latter approach is implemented by Tegile Systems.
Tegile Systems added to the product catalog IntelliFlash N-5000 rack-mountable drives. The 2U high-speed drives contain dual-port SSD PCIe with NVMe support, NVMe-enabled controllers, an internal bus with NVMe support and NVMe protocol transfer via the 40 Gbps Ethernet port for data transfer inside the rack and between the racks. The NVMe protocol provides better work with arrays of data, including optimal
modes for deduplication, compression, replication and backup. The demand for NVMe is facilitated by the spread of work with the Big Data (with unstructured information) among relatively small companies. The database market from the vertical structure has turned into a horizontal one and has gone and gone.
In the IntelliFlash N-5000 series there are two basic platforms: N5200 and N5800. Both of them are scaled at the request of the customer. It is interesting to note that earlier Tegile Systems used in its devices special modules InfiniFlash company SanDisk. The N5200 and N5800 systems rely on publicly available SSDs and are no longer dependent on the products of a single proprietary manufacturer.
The N5200 array can include up to 24 two-way PCIe SSDs with a total volume of 23 to 46 TB with guaranteed full-time rewriting within 24 hours. The module's RAM can reach 448 GB of DDR4 and 16 GB of NVDIMM. The N5800 can carry a capacity of 76 to 153 TB SSD (the same 24 disks), but it can overwrite three capacities per day, and also contains up to 3 TB of DDR4 and up to 32 GB of NVDIMM.
According to analysts, within one and a half to two years the ecosystem with support for NVMe will grow up so much that the demand for it will become the main one for everyone who intends to seriously deal with data processing. In general, NVMe promises to displace previous interfaces from storage systems until 2020. Today, we will clarify, NVMe belongs to the premium segment and holds about 20% of the market. Related Products :
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