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IBM DeepFlash 150 Petabyte-scale all- f lash array designed for cloud and big-data workloads

Highlights●● ● ●Achieve breakthrough economics with an

all-f lash array at a disk-lik e acquisition price for petabyte-s cale unstructured data

●● ● ●Boost IT efficiency with ultra-dens e, all- flash arrays delivering up to 512 terabytes in 3U rack space and 450 W average per enclosure

●● ● ●Maximize business uptime with enterprise reliability, availability and serviceability when combined with the IBM® Spectrum Scale™ software- defined storage (SDS) solution

●● ● ●Unleash the power of insights by acceler-ating analytics through the low latency, high bandwidth and seamless scaling of an all- flash array

The volume, velocity and value of data continue to increase at exponen-tial rates. The cloud, mobile and social systems of engagement, big-data analytics, and the Internet of Things are poised to accelerate data volumes and velocities ever faster.

Your business cannot be competitive if you simply react; you want to lead and thrive in this rapidly changing 21st century business environment IBM calls the “Cognitive Era.” But to innovate at the speed of cognitive business, you need data storage that transforms massive data challenges into manageable, cost-effective business opportunities.

Historically, enterprise-grade storage arrays were expensive, inf lexible and difficult to share among multiple systems and applications. These systems are quickly being replaced by SDS systems that use lower-cost components in a f lexible, reconfigurable architecture that enables organizations to easily expand and re-target storage across many diverse systems and workloads.

IBM DeepFlash™ 150 provides an essential big-data building block for petabyte-scale, cost-constrained, high-density and high-performance storage environments. It delivers the response times of an all-f lash array with extraordinarily competitive cost benefits. DeepFlash 150 is an ideal choice to accelerate systems of engagement, unstructured data, big data and other workloads requiring very low latency, high performance and sustained throughput.

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Petabyte- scale storage without compromiseThe DeepFlash 150 all-f lash storage array is a building block for SDS infrastructures. It is a key element of a storage solution—along with a compute platform and f lash storage—that is primarily targeted at big data, media and entertainment streaming, virtual desktop, high-speed database, and hyper -scale environments. DeepFlash 150 provides highly scalable capacity and performance plus highly competitive economics—in both capital expenditures and operational expenditures—surpassing that of conventional enterprise-grade storage systems.

DeepFlash 150 introduces breakthrough economics for active data sets. The basic DeepFlash 150 hardware platform breaks the USD1 per GB barrier—and even with storage stack soft-ware, its cost still remains less than USD2 per GB. Additionally, DeepFlash 150 has been designed to optimize reliability, avail-ability and serviceability. Compared to the spinning disk-based systems used in many large-scale storage environments, f lash requires less redundancy, has a significantly lower failure rate and consumes much lower power—with the additional benefit of requiring fewer f lash devices to meet data capacity

requirements. For serviceability, DeepFlash 150 components are hot-swappable, making the entire system an easy- to- service, field-replaceable unit.

Flash innovation for new workloadsIndustry analysts invented a new term—“Big Data Flash”— specifically to describe this high-density f lash.1 Enterprises grappling with constrained IT budgets, massive data sets and escalating storage performance requirements typically will be among the users of this new storage solution because it delivers price-competitive, high- performance storage that also offers extremely high storage density of up to 170 TB per rack unit, or six petabytes (PB) per full rack. For these reasons, industries deploying DeepFlash 150 storage solutions likely will include high-performance computing, life sciences/ genomics, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, telecommunications, media and entertainment, and cloud service providers. DeepFlash 150 will be an effective solution for all types of SAP, SAS analytics and “oceans of data” workloads.

DeepFlash 150 does not use conventional solid-state drives (SSD). Instead, this innovative new storage system relies on a larger, systems-level approach that enables organizations to manage much larger data sets without having to manage individual storage modules. The DeepFlash 150 system comes complete with the hardware necessary for enterprise and hyper-scale storage, including up to 64 purpose- engineered f lash cards in a 3U chassis and 12-Gbps SAS connectors for up to 8 servers. The wide range of IBM Spectrum Storage™ and other SDS solutions available for DeepFlash 150 provides f lash-optimized scale out and management along with large capacity block, file and object storage interfaces designed to help ease administration and save time.

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DeepFlash 150 also includes development libraries for direct application integration, enabling advanced functions such as triggers, message passing and in-situ data transformations. Although the system can be used off the shelf with block or object-based applications, an included software development kit enables users to optimize applications for use with DeepFlash 150 to obtain even better performance, efficiency and total cost of ownership benefits in an organization’s unique environment.

DeepFlash 150 at a glanceDeepFlash 150 is a 3U, 19-inch rack- mount storage enclosure consisting of the following major components:

●● ● Drive plane board (DPB) that supports up to 64 board f lash modules

●● ● Four drive SAS expanders (DSE)●● ● Two host SAS expanders (HSE)●● ● Four fan modules (two fans in each module) with a fan

interface board (FIB)

The DeepFlash 150 storage system mounts in a rack using full extension rack slides. Each system supports two HSEs. Each HSE includes four mini-SAS (SFF- 8088) connectors. Each mini-SAS connector supports four SAS lanes. Each SAS lane operates at up to 12 Gb/s.

HSEs with mini-SAS connectors interface to one or more external servers through SAS 12 Gb/s cables up to three meters in length.

The f lash modules have a capacity of 8 TB each. DeepFlash 150 comes preloaded with 16, 32 or 64 BSSDs.

The system includes two PSUs that operate in a redundant fashion. If one PSU fails, the other takes up the full load of the system. The total power draw of the system is a maximum of 1,200 W.

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Why IBM?IBM provides industry-leading f lash and SDS solutions that address the full spectrum of application workloads, business use cases and budgetary requirements. IBM DeepFlash 150 adds yet another option to the IBM storage portfolio specifically targeting hyper-scale, high-density, price-competitive enterprise requirements. IBM flash storage solutions can provide these enterprises with the massive scalability, f lexibility and application performance the organization needs to compete, innovate and grow.

For more informationTo learn more about IBM DeepFlash 150, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit: ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/deepflash150/

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1 Eric Burgener, “SanDisk Establishes the Big Data Flash Category with Its InfiniFlash Introduction,” IDC, March 2015.

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