The best data solutions are sought in the enterprise. Enabling those solutions is storage, the integral part of computing mandated to keep up with today’s vast software.
Returning its offerings to scalable, secure storage, Infinidat Ltd. has been a Super Cycle of product announcements, including today’s unveil of its new InfiniBox SSA II solid state array. Building on top of its flagship InfiniBox platform with the first-ever solid state array launched last year, Infinidat is signaling a strong and consistent rhythm of product releases.
“It’s a sign of successful storage companies,” he said Dave Vellante, principal analyst at Wikibon, a sister company of SiliconANGLE. Noticing executive changes under the leadership of CEO Phil Bollinger, Infinidat’s recent developments position the company for its next chapter.
Joining Vellante in a special segment for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s livestreaming studio, is Infinidat’s new chief marketing officer Eric Herzog (pictured). The two discussed the statistics behind Infinidat’s latest rollouts, and the role of artificial intelligence in its approach to cyber resilience. (* Disclosure below.)
Next-gen solid state arrays
Where many storage solutions use two array controllers, InfiniBox implements three. Now powered by additional CPUs, the InfiniBox can take on additional controller interconnects and CPU cores, Infinidat is chasing major performance wins.
“We are 35 now [microseconds] of latency, real-world-not a hero number, but real-world-in an array. The speeds are also as fast as 100 microseconds of latency across the entire configuration, not just in storage, ”Herzog said.
Entering the SSA configurations is a significant pivot point for Infinidat, as the company seeks more opportunities to expand its installation base. Now with the “original” InfiniBox and an enhanced version of SSA, Infinidat hopes to seize all of the client’s performance needs.
Referring to a beta user of the upgraded InfiniBox, Herzog announced the new performance numbers:
“I amn per benchmark [for input/output operations per second]latency and focused on bandwidth, we passed the next closest competition. For example, 57% faster than IOPS, 58% faster in bandwidth, and on the latency side using real-world Oracle apps, we are three times better performance in the aspect of latency. For a high end high performance workload, that’s very transactional. ”
With InfiniVerse … and more
While boosting performance brings bragging rights, Infinidat’s combined efforts capture the bigger picture across its product portfolio, particularly in the field of cyber resilience.
Both InfiniSafe and InfiniGuard are integrated into the new InfiniBox SSA II, combining fixed data snapshots, logical air gapping, fenced forensic environment and virtually instantaneous data retrieval. With the spreading threat scene and increasingly sophisticated ransomware attacks, storage has become more important than ever in securing data management touchpoints.
“The goal between InfiniGuard and secondary storage, and the InfiniBox and the InfiniBox SSA II – we’re launching it now – InfiniSafe will work for InfiniBox in the original InfiniBox, ”Herzog explained. “It’s just a software thing. So no additional hardware needed. akoif you have InfiniBox now, when you upgrade to the latest software, you can have InfiniSafe reference architecture available. ”
Such advances are supported in part by Infinidat’s machine learning efforts, a hallmark of the company’s strategy from day one. New algorithms work towards optimizing the InfiniBox workload, automatically adapting to changes as servers and applications are added.
The company is also introducing InfiniOps, a new portfolio of solutions that attracts developers. It includes AIOps built into the box via InfiniVerse’s automation toolset.
“InfiniOps is software and we allow it to perform AIOs within our storage system using our InfiniVerse, and our InfiniMetrics package, ”Herzog said.
These packages will come preinstalled for customers and will host intrinsic support for external tools such as VMware, Virtana and ServiceNow, according to Herzog. In addition, full-stack support for Ansible will allow organizations a more straightforward approach for infrastructure deployment, which in itself is another big benefit, Herzog pointed out.
“Between our AIOps focus and what we do with InfiniOps, extending… this easy to use model we have,“He added.
Stay tuned for the on-demand version of this special CUBE conversation, and check out other episodes in our #cyberresilience series here.
Reporting by Kristen Nicole Martin
(* Disclosure: Infinidat Ltd. sponsors this segment of theCUBE. Neither Infinidat nor the other sponsors have editorial control over the content in theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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