Storage Unpacked 250 – Infinidat announces SSA Express and higher capacity SSA II (Sponsored)

In this episode Chris gets an update on new announcements from Infinidat, including SSA Express and higher-capacity SSA II systems. SSA Express is a new feature of the InfiniBox "classic" platform that allows customers to implement what looks like a virtual SSA (all-flash array) within a hybrid InfiniBox. The solution effectively pins volumes in SSD rather than allowing the data to cascade to the HDD layer, with the benefit of SSA performance for no additional cost on 95% of hardware in the field.

Infinidat has also introduced a new SSA II, the F4316T with up to 6.6PB of effective capacity, doubling the previous maximum. The F4304T has been discontinued, so to meet the requirements of customers to scale from small to large systems, the existing F4308T and new F4316T can be initially deployed at 60%, 80% and 100% full. This scale-up option gives customers choice on how to deploy and extend all-flash implementations.

More information on the new offerings can be found at https://www.infinidat.com/ and more details on Infinidat at our Infinidat Microsite.

Elapsed Time: 00:33:51

Timeline

00:00:00 - Intros

00:01:00 - Quick update on announcements this year

00:03:30 - Vendors need to be offering value-add

00:04:25 - SSA Express is a software upgrade to add an embedded all-flash array

00:05:30 - SSA gains expansion and scale-up capabilities

00:06:40 - What is the SSA (and SSA II)?

00:08:45 - SSA Express is a free software upgrade

00:10:55 - SSA Express is similar to pinned volumes

00:13:20 - Infinidat will validate the suitability for SSA Express

00:14:50 - Most vendors don’t retro-fit a feature across all historical platforms

00:16:55 - InfiniBox is generally deployed fully configured

00:18:20 - SSA now offers double capacity with F4316T

00:24:05 - The new scalability allows customers to grow capacity more easily

00:25:35 - Partially populated SSA II still runs at 100% performance

00:28:10 - Value add for the customer is important in the current market

00:31:35 - Wrap Up

Related Podcasts & Blogs

Storage Unpacked 247 - Infinidat announces InfuzeOS Cloud Edition and InfiniSafe Cyber Detection

Storage Unpacked 231 - Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II

Storage Unpacked 227 - Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog

Infinidat Microsite

The Quiet Success of Infinidat

Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #nf34

In this episode Chris gets an update on new announcements from Infinidat, including SSA Express and higher-capacity SSA II systems. SSA Express is a new feature of the InfiniBox “classic” platform that allows customers to implement what looks like a virtual SSA (all-flash array) within a hybrid InfiniBox. The solution effectively pins volumes in SSD rather than allowing the data to cascade to the HDD layer, with the benefit of SSA performance for no additional cost on 95% of hardware in the field.

Infinidat has also introduced a new SSA II, the F4316T with up to 6.6PB of effective capacity, doubling the previous maximum. The F4304T has been discontinued, so to meet the requirements of customers to scale from small to large systems, the existing F4308T and new F4316T can be initially deployed at 60%, 80% and 100% full. This scale-up option gives customers choice on how to deploy and extend all-flash implementations.

More information on the new offerings can be found at https://www.infinidat.com/ and more details on Infinidat at our Infinidat Microsite.

Elapsed Time: 00:33:51

Timeline

00:00:00 – Intros
00:01:00 – Quick update on announcements this year
00:03:30 – Vendors need to be offering value-add
00:04:25 – SSA Express is a software upgrade to add an embedded all-flash array
00:05:30 – SSA gains expansion and scale-up capabilities
00:06:40 – What is the SSA (and SSA II)?
00:08:45 – SSA Express is a free software upgrade
00:10:55 – SSA Express is similar to pinned volumes
00:13:20 – Infinidat will validate the suitability for SSA Express
00:14:50 – Most vendors don’t retro-fit a feature across all historical platforms
00:16:55 – InfiniBox is generally deployed fully configured
00:18:20 – SSA now offers double capacity with F4316T
00:24:05 – The new scalability allows customers to grow capacity more easily
00:25:35 – Partially populated SSA II still runs at 100% performance
00:28:10 – Value add for the customer is important in the current market
00:31:35 – Wrap Up

Related Podcasts & Blogs

Storage Unpacked 247 – Infinidat announces InfuzeOS Cloud Edition and InfiniSafe Cyber Detection
Storage Unpacked 231 – Introducing Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II
Storage Unpacked 227 – Infinidat InfiniGuard Enhancements with Eric Herzog
Infinidat Microsite
The Quiet Success of Infinidat

Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Unpacked Network. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #nf34