CHATSWORTH, Calif. – May 18, 2023 – DDN, a multi-cloud data management company, today announced what it claims are major advances for its all-flash and hybrid storage solutions. DDN’s parallel file system technology, combined with AI and data center-specific data compression, delivers the highest performance efficiency directly for generative AI, machine learning, and other enterprise high-performance applications.
DDN’s new AI400X2 QLC and hybrid storage arrays eliminate the need for complex networking and major performance bottlenecks found in other data storage solutions, and combine DDN’s parallel file system with new client-side data compression. 10x performance improvement and up to 15x more effective capacity. Cut your data center footprint in half.
By owning and optimizing the entire data path, DDN appliances have a direct impact on application performance. Additionally, the platform requires less infrastructure, consumes less power, and consumes less data center real estate.
“Today’s QLC scale-out NAS systems offer high capacity at low cost, but are very inefficient in terms of IOPS, throughput and latency, making them unsuitable for high-performance environments such as AI, machine learning, and real-time applications. No.” Dr. James Coomer, Senior Vice President of Products, DDN. “DDN’s new AI400X2 QLC and hybrid storage. Our parallel file system and data compression technology powering his array solves the challenges in these large-scale, high-performance environments, delivering significant improvements and benefits to our customers. brings.”
AI storage requires dedicated infrastructure designed for data-intensive workflows. While generative AI makes headlines, other promising applications such as surreal 3D and immersive universes in games, the creation of sophisticated new proteins and molecules for drug discovery, and self-driving cars can easily scale. The need for efficient and reliable performance is increasing.
Start with a single 2U appliance that requires no additional components, and expand your storage capabilities by adding additional appliances and enclosures without redesigning for expanding performance or capacity requirements. Additionally, DDN’s EXAScaler® parallel file system with client-side compression can improve performance by exchanging network traffic for more available CPU cycles. DDN’s new high-efficiency QLC storage platform is the industry’s only solution capable of managing generative AI.
As a leader in AI and multi-cloud data management solutions, DDN provides high-performance, flexible, and optimized storage for any workflow at any scale. DDN’s all-TLC flash-based system delivers the highest he IOPS and throughput per rack, up to 70 million IOPS in a single rack. A hybrid solution with TLC flash and traditional disk drives offers the best price per TB at 20PB per rack. The new QLC flash system offers the lowest price per flash TB and the highest storage density with up to 14M IOPS in a single rack.
DDN AI400X2 QLC systems range from 2.9 PB to 7.3 TB, with effective capacities from 4.7 PB to 11.7 PB using a conservative compression ratio of 2x. DDN plans to start shipping QLC-based solutions in the third quarter of 2023.
DDN will be exhibiting at ISC High Performance 2023 in Hamburg, Germany from May 22nd to 25th. The DDN booth (C319) will offer technical presentations and panels, giving visitors face-to-face time with experts.
DDN will host its annual user group conference “Data, HPC and AI Summit” during ISC23. The user group event will include updates on DDN’s vision for the next future of AI and HPC data management. The event brings together some of the best IT architects, storage architects, data scientists and technologists to learn how leading organizations are running cutting-edge AI and HPC initiatives, from energy, finance, education, research and manufacturing. Share how you’re transforming your industry on a global scale. .
For more information on DDN at ISC23, please visit: www.ddn.com/company/events/isc-hpc-2023/
