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Infortrend’s Storage Solutions Feature SSD Optimization Technology to Offer Better Data Protection and Cost-Effectiveness

Sep 30, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Frank Lee, #Senior Director of Product Planning

InfoTrend LogoNew Delhi-India: Infortrend® Technology, Inc. the industry-leading enterprise storage provider, has developed and integrated SSD optimization technology into enterprise storage solutions: EonStor CS scale-out NAS, EonStor GS unified SAN/NAS, and EonStor DS SAN families. It allows users to choose SSDs that offer high cost/performance ratio and larger capacity, without worrying about data loss.

Seeing the growing demands for modernized IT infrastructure, enterprises increase budgets to adopt new CPUs for their servers and higher-density SSD storage for upgraded computing power and storage capacity. However, as SSD procurements are rising in 2021, so are their prices. Due to budget concerns, many medium-sized enterprises choose low-cost SSDs that use TLC/QLC technology, which, on the one hand, provide larger capacity by packing more data into the same footprint, but, on the other hand, have a short lifespan and require frequent replacement. Failure to replace it in time may cause irrevocable loss of valuable enterprise data.

Infortrend’s SSD optimization technology is a comprehensive solution for the above mentioned issues. First, it provides increased SSD stability with various technologies, particularly, RAID protection prevents simultaneous SSD damage and consequent data loss. Thanks to real-time SSD monitoring, users are always aware of SSD conditions, and when it’s about to reach its end-of-life, the system proactively notifies users that replacement of certain SSD is necessary to maintain data integrity.

Second, the technology extends SSD service life by reducing the amount of data written to SSD with optimization of I/O loads, which makes the random write operations more sequential and lessens the write amplification effect. Over-provisioning and other technologies can also extend the service life of SSD by several times. Overall, these features provide a complete SSD optimization solution and make enterprise SSD usage much more predictable, safe, and easily managed.

“We put our best efforts into developing a complete SSD optimization solution to offer great data protection, maximized SSD lifespan, and reduced burden of enterprise IT management,” noted Frank Lee, Senior Director of Product Planning.

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Infortrend Launches U.2 NVMe Scale-out NAS Solution

Jul 23, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Frank Lee, #Senior Director of Product Planning

New Delhi – Infortrend® Technology, Inc.,  the industry-leading enterprise storage provider, has launched U.2 SSD solution for EonStor CS scale-out NAS. The new all-flash CS 4014U satisfies high performance-demanding requirements for high throughput and low latency workloads, such as media & entertainment (M&E), HPC, Big Data, etc.

EonStor CS is a scale-out NAS storage able to expand capacity and linearly increase performance by adding more nodes. CS provides complete data protection and high availability to avoid data loss and system downtime caused by disk damage or system failures. Each node of CS 4014U model can be installed with 14 U.2 SSDs, and a 5-node cluster can reach 20GB/s throughput.

For a more cost-effective solution, CS 4014U supports hybrid configuration.As some enterprise data requires immediate access, while other data is rarely accessed, CS now supports the auto-tiering function. This function automatically allocates data: data that is accessed most often is stored in the SSD tier to speed up access to currently ‘hot’ data, whereas the rarely accessed ‘cold’ data is moved to theHDD tier to optimize capacity usage for saving costs.

CS 4014U provides intelligent drive management and real-time SSD monitoring to predict the number of days left for usage. When SSD is approaching its end-of-life, the system notifies users to timely replace the SSD. Using a set of smart algorithms, CS 4014U allows to optimize data to prolong the service life of the SSD and prevent simultaneous damage of multiple SSDs.

“Today, for your applications that are slowed down by storage read/write speed, you can gain both lightning-speed performance and expandable capacity with the new all-flash scale-out NAS EonStor CS4014 supporting the newest generation of U.2 SSD. Its performance is impressive, and end users will notice the difference immediately,” said Frank Lee, Senior Director of Product Planning.