Western Digital OpenFlex™ NVMe-oF™ Device Selected as a Product of the Year by Storage Magazine
February 20 2020 - 2:13PM
Business Wire
TechTarget Editors Designate OpenFlex F3100
Series Fabric Device as “Most Composable,” Lone NVMe-oF Product of
the Year Award Winner Takes Silver in HCI and Composable
Infrastructures Category
Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) has been selected as one of the
winners of Storage Magazine’s prestigious Products of the Year
Awards for 2019. The company’s OpenFlex F3100 Series Fabric Device
was recognized as “groundbreaking” and “the most composable”
product in the Hyperconverged (HCI) and Composable Infrastructures
category, highlighting impressive performance and density,
innovative hardware design and open API. According to TechTarget
editors, the OpenFlex F3100 “offers a look at what is, perhaps, the
future of hyperconvergence by disaggregating storage from servers
over NVMe-oF.”
Now in its 18th year, the enterprise data storage Products of
the Year Awards compare the best technology hardware, software and
services offerings available across five categories. TechTarget’s
expert panel of analysts, consultants and end users judged this
year’s entrants based on technological innovation, performance,
ease of integration into enterprise IT environments, ease of use
and manageability, functionality and value.
Products that were selected for the HCI and Composable
Infrastructures category included solutions that combine storage,
compute and virtualization resources for management as a single
system through a common tool set. Composable systems and software
that use a unifying API to disaggregate and manage shared pools of
physical resources also qualified.
As described by judges, “OpenFlex's disaggregated architecture
embraces open source to scale across public and private clouds.
Impressive performance and density in a 3U all-flash array, the
system is the only NVMe™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) award winner in
this category. Disaggregating storage from servers by using NVMe-oF
will certainly improve storage utilization and performance
balancing.” One judge stated that the OpenFlex F3100 was singled
out “given how critical NVMe-oF will be to future composable
infrastructure designs,” adding that “the support of an open API is
also very innovative and makes the adoption of composable
infrastructure far more realistic.”
The OpenFlex platform provides a new architectural approach to
software-defined storage (SDS) infrastructure, enabling storage,
networking, and compute to be disaggregated into shareable resource
pools. Combined with an open standards-based, scalable and
easy-to-use Open Composability API, OpenFlex helps IT Managers
better provision on the fly with simplified operations, eliminate
underutilized resources and reduce TCO by up to 40 percent1 when
compared to hyperconverged infrastructure. The OpenFlex F3100
NVMe-oF storage device provides blazing-fast speeds up to 2.1
million IOPS, 11.7 GBps throughput, and latencies less than 48
microseconds. Each fabric-attached device is available in
capacities of up to 61TB2, delivering extreme performance over two
50 gigabit Ethernet ports.
“Western Digital is fully committed to driving ecosystem-wide
support and adoption of open composable infrastructure, and
OpenFlex is the NVMe-oF foundational building block to help
enterprises optimize their data storage environments,” said Kurt
Chan, vice president and general manager, Data Center Platforms at
Western Digital. “It’s a great honor to have OpenFlex among this
year’s Products of the Year award winners as it further validates
our innovation and efforts to enable open, next-generation IT
infrastructures.”
In addition to the OpenFlex platform, Western Digital’s full
data center portfolio includes: Ultrastar® storage servers and
storage platforms; Ultrastar memory extension drive; and its family
of Ultrastar data center-class HDDs and SSDs.
Resources:
Blog: The Next Step in the Evolution of Composability Data
Sheet: OpenFlex F3100 Series Fabric Device
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About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. As a
leader in data infrastructure, the company is driving the
innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and
transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Everywhere data
lives, from advanced data centers to mobile sensors to personal
devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver the possibilities
of data. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western
Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk®, and WD® brands.
1Based on internal estimates of utilization efficiencies and
component pricing as of July 2018 2 One GB is equal to one billion
bytes and one TB equals 1,000GB (one trillion bytes) when referring
to storage capacity. Accessible capacity will vary from the stated
capacity due to operating environment.
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