Broadband India Forum
Web 2.0 & Services => Web 2.0 => Topic started by: wiredlife on April 05, 2016, 08:23:23 AM
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Facebook has stated in the past that it would move all of its archival data to all-flash storage, as users expect to be able to access
long-dormant content (such as old photographs and video) instantaneously. We note that Facebook initially used Fusion IO?s ioScale product in 2013, which was priced at $3.98/GB. We believe that the first customer of the Infiniflash (http://dslindia.com/forum/index.php?topic=501.0) will be Facebook, as it continues to store data on flash storage, although we expect SanDisk to target other hyperscale customers with the technology.
The product appears to be a new improved avatar of Fusion-IO?s all-flash storage appliance ? the ioN accelerator. While the FIO product was targeted at high-performance use cases like all other all-flash arrays, SNDK appears to have targeted the product at secondary-storage use cases such as data repositories, big-data analytics and media streaming.
SanDisk appears to have made a strong software push with this product. Key enhancements that SNDK has made to the erstwhile FIO product include several key software-based features such as scale-out (10-100s of nodes), block, file and object protocol support, enterprise class reliability (hot swappable modules) and data protection (snapshots, etc).