Strengthening its Data Center Portfolio,
Company’s New Dual-Port, Performance Ultrastar® DC SN840 NVMe SSD,
OpenFlex™ Data24 NVMe-oF Platform and RapidFlex™ Controllers Extend
the Value of NVMe to Data Fabrics for Shared Disaggregated
Storage
News highlights:
- New dual-port, performance Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSD is the
company’s third-generation solution designed to accelerate cloud
compute, servers running mission-critical workloads, and
high-availability external storage solutions.
- New OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform extends the
performance of Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSDs across a low-latency
Ethernet data fabric, providing the flexibility for hyperscale, OEM
and enterprise IT customers to more effectively scale-up capacity
and share disaggregated Flash storage resources.
- RapidFlex controllers incorporated in OpenFlex Data24 provide
seamless NVMe/NVMe-oF connectivity with outstanding performance and
extreme power efficiency. First Western Digital solution to
integrate newly branded technology from the Kazan Networks
acquisition.
- Vertically integrated NVMe SSDs and storage enclosures enable
data infrastructure leaders to transition from SAS or SATA to NVMe
for highly efficient, scalable and low-latency infrastructure to
power applications and workloads requiring superior read/write
performance and availability.
Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced new solutions that
provide the foundation for next-generation data infrastructures
designed around Ultrastar NVMe™ SSDs and supercharged by NVMe-oF™.
Building upon the company’s innovative design and integration
capabilities – from NAND Flash to storage platforms – the new
dual-port, performance Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSDs and in-house
RapidFlex NVMe-oF controllers are standalone solutions that combine
to create the new OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform, a new
shared storage JBOF (Just a Bunch of Flash) enclosure that extends
the value of NVMe to multiple hosts over a low-latency Ethernet
fabric network. These new solutions further expand Western
Digital’s data center portfolio to help customers transition to
higher efficiency NVMe SSDs and more advanced shared storage
architectures to meet the evolving demands of performance-driven
applications and workloads.
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Ultrastar® DC SN840 NVMe™ SSD &
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In today’s global digital economy, microseconds count. As
hyperscale cloud and enterprise data centers constantly work to
remove bottlenecks to ensure uncompromised performance and
availability of essential applications, while also keeping pace
with unprecedented data growth, customer adoption of NVMe and
NVMe-oF solutions continues to accelerate. Industry analyst firm
IDC expects hyperscalers, OEMs and end-user IT organizations to
continue to transition away from legacy SATA and SAS interfaces,
with NVMe on track to reach more than 55 percent of total
enterprise SSD units shipped in 2020 and grow at a 2018-2023 CAGR
of 38 percent¹.
“The future of Flash is undoubtedly NVMe as it’s all about
speed, efficiency, capacity and cost-effective scalability, and
NVMe-oF takes it to the next level,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research
vice president at IDC. “Many high-performance applications have
quickly become mainstay drivers of key business functions and we
can expect this to further expand NVMe in data centers for global
enterprises. With Western Digital’s long history of NAND Flash
innovation and an integrated portfolio of NVMe SSDs and new data
fabrics solutions, the company is well positioned to help customers
fully embrace NVMe and get the most out of their storage
assets.”
Ultrastar DC SN840 Data Center NVMe SSD
Extending Western Digital’s leadership in dual-port
architecture, the new performance Ultrastar DC SN840 Gen3.1 NVMe
SSD is the company’s third-generation solution with a vertically
integrated in-house NVMe controller, firmware and 96-layer 3D TLC
NAND technology. The new Ultrastar NVMe SSD enables enterprise
customers to seamlessly transition from SATA and SAS to
NVMe—delivering competitive performance of up to 780K/250K random
read/write IOPS and capacities up to 15.36TB in a drop-in U.2 15mm
form factor. Its comprehensive set of enterprise-class features
includes 1 and 3 DW/D endurance levels, full power-loss protection
and TCG encryption. Future-ready, it is the ideal solution for a
growing number of mission-critical applications that require
superior read/write and mixed workload performance, low latency and
dual-port high availability—everything from high-performance
computing (HPC), cloud computing, SQL/NoSQL databases,
virtualization (VMs/containers), AI/ML and data analytics.
“Being the leader in high performance storage for AI and big
data, DDN needs to stay at the leading edge of storage
technologies,” said Paul Bloch, president and co-founder of DDN.
“We are fortunate to have an innovative partner like Western
Digital to deliver NVMe-based all-flash solutions that maximize
device performance so we can deliver application acceleration to
our customers. We look forward to implementing the Ultrastar DC
SN840 NVMe SSD in our solutions.”
OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform
While NVMe Flash-based storage provides enormous performance
gains for DAS, SAN and NAS, traditional data center infrastructure
can limit the full potential of NVMe SSDs, resulting in
underutilization of valuable storage resources, inefficient data
silos and costly operational expenses. OpenFlex Data24 helps
address these challenges by enabling the full bandwidth of
Ultrastar NVMe SSDs to be shared by multiple hosts over a
low-latency Ethernet fabric as if they were locally attached to the
PCIe bus inside x86 servers. This provides greater flexibility for
data center operators to scale-up capacity and more efficiently
utilize disaggregated Flash storage to achieve greater performance
for the most demanding workloads.
Launching with up to 24 hot-swappable Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe
SSDs, OpenFlex Data24 provides shared storage capacity of up to
368TB in a compact 2U form factor, making it ideal for server
storage expansion and scale-out software-defined storage (SDS)
environments. The holistic design also incorporates newly branded
RapidFlex RDMA-enabled NVMe-oF controllers for unsurpassed network
connectivity and extreme low power, allowing up to six hosts to be
directly attached with 100Gb Ethernet without the need for an
external switch. RapidFlex controllers provide sub-500 nanosecond
latency for projected platform performance topping 13M IOPS/70GB/s
when adding up to six network adapters to the OpenFlex Data24.
Built for high availability and enterprise-class reliability,
the OpenFlex Data24 can be attached as shared storage in
high-performance infrastructure deployments or utilized as a
disaggregated resource to compose virtual storage systems. The
platform is fully interoperable with the award-winning OpenFlex
F-series – the only open composable disaggregated infrastructure
(CDI) solution in the world.
“Data infrastructure has never been as vital to the world’s
economy as it is today,” said Yusuf Jamal, senior vice president of
Western Digital’s Devices and Platforms Business. “As a leading
provider of essential data infrastructure, our mission is to help
enterprises architect next-generation data centers to support
business-critical applications and bandwidth-hungry workloads at
scale. Western Digital’s leadership in NAND Flash,
capacity-enterprise HDDs and supporting technologies are being
relied upon now more than ever. We’re fully committed to helping
companies transition to NVMe and move to new composable
architectures that can maximize the value of their data storage
resources.”
Shipments for the Ultrastar DC SN840 NVMe SSD will begin next
month and the OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform is scheduled
to ship in the Fall with a five-year limited warranty. RapidFlex
NVMe-oF controllers are available now.
Western Digital Blog: From NVMe to NVMe-oF – Why Now is
the Time
Webinar: OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform
Announcement
Western Digital continuously innovates, pushing the boundaries
of science and technology to deliver products that enable greater
data infrastructure efficiency and productivity with best-in-class
TCO. Its broad data center portfolio includes its family of
Ultrastar HDDs and SSDs; WD Gold® HDDs and SSDs; OpenFlex NVMe-oF
open composable infrastructure; Ultrastar storage platforms;
RapidFlex NVMe-oF controllers; and the Ultrastar memory extension
drive. Western Digital is also championing Zoned Storage, an
open-source, standards-based initiative building upon the synergies
of SMR HDDs and ZNS SSDs that enables data centers to scale
efficiently.
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About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. As a
leader in data infrastructure, the company is driving the
innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and
transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Everywhere data
lives, from advanced data centers to mobile sensors to personal
devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver the possibilities
of data. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western
Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk®, and WD® brands.
¹ IDC Worldwide Solid State Drive Forecast, 2020–2024, May 2020,
Doc # US45172620
One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may
vary depending on operating environment.
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RapidFlex, Ultrastar and WD Gold are registered trademarks or
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Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including the expected availability, benefits, capabilities,
capacity, performance, speed and/or other features of Western
Digital NVMe SSD, controller, and enclosure solutions and changes
to the market for those products. There are a number of risks and
uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate including, among others: changes to specifications from
standards organizations, volatility in global economic conditions;
business conditions and growth in the storage ecosystem; impact of
competitive products and pricing; market acceptance and cost of
commodity materials and specialized product components; actions by
competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; our
development and introduction of products based on new technologies
and expansion into new data storage markets; risks associated with
acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures; difficulties or delays in
manufacturing; and other risks and uncertainties listed in the
company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC"), including the company's most recently filed periodic
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undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no
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