FMS: Pliops Storage Processor Architecture Increases Data Center Storage Efficiency by “Over 60X”

At FMS, Pliops has demonstrated in public its patent-pending technology that accelerates database storage functions.

Storage Processor delivers over 60x higher read/write performance
per core than RocksDB software

The company’s Storage Processor enables cloud and enterprise customers to offload and accelerate data-intensive workloads using just a fraction of the computational load and power consumption. Live demonstrations of the Storage Processor accelerating MySQL was taken place in partner booths (Xilinx, Inc., and Western Digital Corp.) on the show floor.

Storage Processor offloads and accelerates software Storage Engines,
integrating with data-intensive applications
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The company demonstrated technology accelerating storage engine performance per core by over 60x. In the first application of this foundational technology, MySQL transactional performance is increased by 7x and the flash storage required is reduced by up to 50% over MySQL compression.

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Focused on making databases run faster and efficiently, the firm has created an architecture that overcomes the major inefficiencies of software-only storage engines via a dedicated hardware product. The solution solves the scalability challenges raised by the cloud data explosion and the increasing data requirements of AI and ML applications. The company is on a mission to enable the accelerated data center, and is joined in pursuing this vision by investors Softbank Ventures Asia, Intel Capital, Western Digital, Xilinx, and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

“Accelerated data centers, where dedicated hardware engines will run data-intensive workloads, are the best long-term solution to the problems caused by skyrocketing data volumes and slowing compute performance growth,” noted Steve Fingerhut, president and chief business officer, Pliops. “While the industry attempts to address this challenge by adapting existing technologies, we’re taking an entirely different approach. We started with a clean slate and created a new architecture and data structure that redefines the storage primitive – and enables a whole new world of compute.“

About Pliops

Pliops executive team: From left to right: Steve Fingerhut, president and CBO;
Uri Beitler, CEO and founder; Moshe Twitto, CTO and founder; Ari Cohen, VP R&D; Mark Mokryn, VP product.

Founded in 2017, Pliops is a technology innovator focused on making data centers run faster and more efficiently. Its technology addresses skyrocketing data volumes and solves the slowing compute performance problem. The company’s Storage Processor is built upon a patent-pending approach that accelerates storage functions. Focused on creating the next wave of the accelerated data center, it enables cloud and enterprise customers to access data up to 100 times faster – using a fraction of the computational load and power consumption. With this technology, databases, analytics and other data-intensive applications are able to reach their potential. Investors include Softbank Ventures Asia, Intel Capital, Western Digital, Mellanox, and Xilinx.

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