Kioxia KumoScale Software Demos “60x” Storage Improvement Over Traditional Ceph Software

Kioxia America, Inc. announced that, in recent benchmark performance tests, its KumoScale storage software based on NVMe-oF technology was able to improve performance when compared to Ceph software.

Recent testing highlights the raw performance of the software and showcases the economic benefits that this level of performance can deliver to data center users.

Testing conducted in a networked environment that included the NVMe-oF spec and a TCP/IP transport showed that KumoScale software’s read performance is 12x faster than Ceph, and read latency is reduced by 60%. With similar loads, under the same testing conditions, write performance is 60x faster than Ceph while latency is reduced by 98%.

Summary of benchmark testing results:

• Testing environment: Test environment utilized industry standard TCP/IP transport, 100% random workloads, and triply replicated volumes for resilience in both cases.

• Read performance: The software read performance is 12x faster than Ceph software while reducing latency by 60% in the testing environment.

• Write performance: The software write performance is 60x faster than Ceph software while reducing latency by 98%.

• Economic impact: It supports 15x more clients per storage node than Ceph at a lower latency in the testing environment.

“Measuring performance for a storage architecture based on the NVMe-oF specification is a complex task,” noted Joel Dedrick, VP and GM, networked storage software. “Storage dollars per IO/s and read latency are the new critical metrics for the cloud data center. Our recent test report highlights the raw performance of KumoScale software, and showcases the economic benefits that this new level of performance can deliver to data center users.”

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