Fujitsu Eternus AF S2 All-Flash Storage Arrays and Eternus DX S4 Midrange Hybrid Systems

Fujitsu America, Inc. announces its next generation of Eternus AF S2 all-flash storage arrays and Eternus DX S4 midrange hybrid systems.

Eternus AF250 S2 all-flash storage array

These storage systems are designed to meet the performance requirements for digital business growth, continuity and efficiency, while providing a maximum of interoperability and an easy migration path between hybrid and all-flash storage.

Eternus AF S2 all-flash storage arrays
Equipped with larger caches, faster processors, 32Gb FC technology and optimized algorithms for utilizing multicore, multithreaded processors, the Eternus AF250 S2 ⁽¹⁾ and AF650 S2 ⁽²⁾ both all-flash performance for applications that require the highest storage speeds. With 30% more peformance headroom, they enable busineses to consolidate their storage systems, support fast data growth and deliver reliably short data response times for analytics and business-critical applications such as SAP HANA.

Eternus AF650 S2

The mid-range Eternus AF650 S2 packs a raw data capacity of close to 3PB per system into the space of only half a data center rack, providing class-leading IO/s performance and minimum latency, with a cost/performance ratio of $0.27/SPC-1 IO/s in the latest SPC benchmark results ⁽³⁾, published on January 19, 2018. The AF250 S2 is an all-flash solution for SMBs, thanks to its cost/performance ratio. Both models support new types of SSD to be released later in 2018, further boosting maximum storage capacity.

Eternus DX500 S4 with disk enclosure

Eternus DX S4 midrange hybrid systems
Allowing businesses to consolidate as much structured and unstructured data as possible on one storage system that hosts both SSDs and HDDs, the Eternus DX500 S4 and DX600 S4 optimize hybrid storage capabilities for balancing speed, capacity and cost. The company has re-architected both new models for a 30% performance increase in their SSD tier, while the high-capacity HDDs allow organizations to store unstructured data at the lowest cost.

Intelligent automation features remove the administrative burden of managing diverse storage tiers by assigning bandwidth and storage based on the required response time per data volume. On top of this, thanks to the performance of the SSD tier, the Eternus DX S4 family provides a safe path for businesses to gradually migrate from disk and flash to all-flash storage – all in one system.

Heather Engen, head, platform products group, Fujitsu America, says: “Enterprise storage requirements are more demanding today than ever before; data proliferation is persistent across all businesses, while more and more business processes are being run by always-on, mission-critical applications. We’ve designed the new all-flash and hybrid Eternus storage systems to address the realities of the digital age, where balancing capacity with budget considerations is increasingly difficult. The combination of maximum performance, capacity, flexibility and interoperability gives enterprises the tools they need to handle even the toughest demands while growing their business.“

All of the Eternus DX and AF storage systems support the flexible use of deduplication and data compression, giving businesses more options to meet their individual storage and budget requirements. All existing and Eternus DX and AF systems can be controlled with one management software – company’s storage management software Eternus SF. Almost all models can mirror and replicate data between each other or allow a transparent failover. This also works between older and newer system generations, delivering investment protection. Organizations can use a hybrid system as a recovery system for all-flash arrays, reducing the costs of BC.

⁽¹⁾ Eternus AF250 S2 achieves an I/O performance of up to 360,000 IO/s and a response time of 0.673ms, supporting a raw all-flash capacity of more than 700TB.
⁽²⁾ The Eternus AF650 S2 delivers an input/output performance of up to 620,000 IO/s and a sustainable response time of just 3.72ms – enough to support up to 5,000 VMs or a data flow of up to 2PB per day without risking bottlenecks in data access.
⁽³⁾ The SPC-1 benchmark is designed to be vendor/platform independent and is applicable across a broad range of storage configuration and topologies. SPC-1 consists of a single workload designed to demonstrate the performance of a storage subsystem while performing the typical functions of business critical applications. Those applications are characterized by predominately random I/O operations and require both queries as well as update operations.