Fujitsu has launched its all-flash storage solutions into the South African market.
It has been forecast that 50% of disk and hybrid storage will be replaced with all-flash by 2020, says Abdul Moosa. ?? at Fujitsu SA.
He explains that the technology has come a long way since the early days of flash. In the early days it was suited only to niche deployment, while the second generation now offers high performance at a relatively low cost.
It is now suitable for general purpose usage because there is now standardised flash media and full enterprise-class solutions available from most storage vendors.
It is attractive for many reasons, Moosa adds: about five times more IOPS can be achieved, along with three times more effective data reduction and 100 times reduced unrecoverable bit loss.
Flash also offers 500-times better response times, 10 times less power consumption, five times faster rebuilds, 80% lower maintenance costs and five times better dollar-to-IOPS ratio.
“So you get non-stop operations,” Moosa says. “We off integrated management of all-flash and disk storage.”
The Eternus solution also offers selective use of deduplication and compression.
“You can eliminate cost and time for system tuning,” he adds. “And it allows users to automate operations.”
Fujitsu has launched the Eternus AF250 and the Eternus AF650, both enterprise-ready products.
The Eternus AF Series are designed for enterprise use, offering ultra-low response times, SPC benchmark records, high IOPS density and flash optimised cache
The products also support snapshots and replication, storage and mirroring, storage clusters and transparent failover
Eternus solutions have automated quality of service, offering deduplication and compression, which lowers data centre infrastructure costs. The product includes all software licences so there are no surprises for the line.
The Eternus AF250 is a good choice for application scenarios with demanding data and performance requirements.
The system delivers impressive IOPS performance with lowest latency even at full load. This means it offers a solution that resolves all performance issues in critical applications – such as realtime business analytics or VDI environments – without requiring any complicated tuning.
It also fits best as general purpose storage for all Tier-1 applications in small and mid-sized companies.
The Fujitsu All-Flash Storage system Eternus AF650 delivers leading storage performance and automated quality of service management enabling a maximum of system utilisation and contributing to a fast ROI. It is the perfect solution when consolidating data of large-scale databases, business-critical applications and business analytics / big data – all into one all-flash system.
Extensive high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities make Eternus AF650 an ideal storage system for any kind of business data.
“If you are looking for cost-effective disaster recovery where you don’t want flash, you can replicate between flash and traditional disk,” Moosa points out.
He adds that Fujitsu leads in a number of areas, notably in response times, full integration with the Eternus DX hybrid storage; full disaster recovery with mirroring, replication and transparent failover; flexible use of deduplication and compression where it makes sense; and automated quality of service.
Importantly, the price of the Eternus products is all-inclusive, with the AF250 coming in at R400 000 and the AF 650 at R1-million.
The management tool kit is consistent across Fujitsu’s full Eternus portfolio, which includes all-flash as well as hybrid storage arrays.