Happy with your current storage system, but need more power for your tier 1 applications

1. UniPlex T1 Storage Supercharger
Efstathios Efstathiou
Voluntary Techie

2. 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

3. Pain Point
But:
There are some workload patterns, you simply can not
cover with your current design

4. 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

5. 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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6. 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