UniPlex T1 Storage Supercharger

Efstathios Efstathiou

Voluntary Techie

Pain Point

� Sometimes you have

� A proven design

� Spent

� Many hours on your concept

� A lot on education of your staff

� Gathered

� Alot of experience

� Covered most Use cases

Pain Point

� But:

� There are some workload patterns, you simply can not

cover with your current design �

Pain Point

� Facts:

� Mostly Storage Design is always a tradeoff between

capacity and performance

� Buying a new entirely array for special use cases is

expensive

� Modernizing / adding new technolgies to a existing

storage array design often is challenging / impossible

� Agility is becoming more and more a demand, as we can

see from the rise of new Software Defined Storage

Solutions

Pain Point

� Rethink what you really need (and how much):

� Mostly capacity is good

� T1 performance for the top applications could be better

� A «supercharged version» of your current Array would be ideal

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T1 Storage Supercharger

� Features

� Based on the proven Enigma III SDM Storage Appliance

� Software Defined Memory Spanning

� NVDIMM (Tier 1, In-Memory Performance)

� UniPlex NVMe PCIe JBODs (Tier 2, In-Memory Backend)

� Your existing storage (Tier 3, Capacity Tier)

� PCIe over Cable Low Latency Connection for the most demanding

clients

� SuperSockets API for HPC

� A cost efficienty upgrade for your Data Center starting at 10k USD

per T1 brick