Vast Data Universal Storage All-Flash Platforms Double Storage Density With Intel QLC 30TB SSDs

Vast Data, Inc. doubled the storage density of the hardware platforms supported by its Universal Storage offering, providing customers with a more cost-effective and power-efficient all-flash data platform that is the vehicle to achieving cost and efficiency in enterprise and cloud data centers.

Based on Intel Corp.‘s 30TB QLC SSDs, Vast-supported NVMe enclosures double data center density to feature over a petabyte of effective capacity per rack unit (RU). The company’s approach to data management and Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture enables enterprise customers to deploy hyperscale hardware, unlocking greater power efficiency, greater physical density and high flash capacity per total cost of acquisition.

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As a disaggregated, shared-everything architecture, the firm’s Universal Storage offering breaks the traditional tight coupling of CPUs and storage media to make it easier to control power utilization. To further help organizations efficiently deploy hyperscale and power-efficient flash archives, the company is also pre-announcing the Universal Power Control feature (available in 2022), a mechanism that enforces strict limits on system power consumption by intelligently scheduling CPUs to reduce peak power draw by 33%.

Benefits updated offering include:

• Running at 500W per petabyte, the company is able to deliver a system efficiency that is as much as 11x more power efficient than enterprise hard-drive based archive systems such as Dell PowerScale A300 and up to 9x more power efficient than competing all-flash scale-out systems such as Pure Storage’s FlashBlade.

• By effectively doubling the capacity of a single Universal Storage system (2U chassis), supported system density and firm’s game-changing Similarity-Based Data reduction result in a 5x data center density advantage over Dell PowerScale and Pure Storage FlshBlade.

• Innovations in company’s software and Universal Storage’s support for high-density hyperscale NVMe media make it possible for companies to finally move all their data onto flash and future-proof their data platform investments to prepare for modern data-centric workloads.

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“With this announcement, we are eliminating all of the arguments for HDD-based infrastructure and making it even easier for customers to reach the all-silicon data center destination we first charted back in 2018,” said Jeff Denworth, co-founder. “Since our inception, we’ve set out to change the economics of all-flash infrastructure ownership so that companies can confidently and efficiently scale capacity and performance as their datasets grow. We’ve optimized Universal Storage to deliver the performance, capacity and cost profile in a single solution for all data.“

Joining other enterprise customers across the globe who have made the move to hyperscale Universal Storage, a large global financial organization has made an investment in the company for more than 200PB of this high density enclosure support, enabling them to close their book on the HDD era by consolidating their performance tier and archive into a single low-cost flash cloud. This customer (and others) use Universal Storage to transparently mix and match 15 and 30TB drives in a single cluster, expanding their hardware across multiple gens of Universal Storage without requiring administrators or application owners to worry about what pool of storage their data is in.

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