UPDATED 11:06 EDT / AUGUST 23 2016

SimpliVity intros a 22TB all-flash hyperconverged appliance

Hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage, two of the most-buzzed about technologies in the data center today, are coming together. One of the vendors driving the trend is SimpliVity Corp., which today added a new model to its popular line of integrated appliances called the CN-5400-F that packs 14 speedy Intel S3610 SSDs into a 2U chassis.

With 1.6 terabytes of speedy MLC memory each, the drives give the system about 22 terabytes of raw capacity in total. That puts it between the rivaling 11.5-terabyte NX-8035-G5 and 46-terabyte NX-8150-G5 appliances from Nutanix Inc, which launched the industry’s first all-flash hyperconverged box back in October 2014. SimpliVity product strategy veep Jesse St. Laurent explained in an interview on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE show this week that his company deliberately waited until now to launch a competing offering.

“We never wanted to build an all-flash platform to have some offering in the portfolio that looked good in the marketing procedure, we wanted to build it when the economics made sense and it made sense for the customer,” St. Laurent explained to theCUBE host Stu Miniman. “That’s really the logic behind it, so it’s designed to be a logical extension of the portfolio for customers that need a bit more performance and a bit more predictable in the latency of their infrastructure.”

Stuart Gilks, an architect for the vendor, told ComputerWeekly that the system is geared mainly towards databases, Microsoft SQL and other IO-intensive workloads commonly used with flash drives. He didn’t specify exactly how many IOPS can be handled by the appliance, but ComputerWeekly estimates that the number is around 1.1 million reads and 400,000 writes per second based on the publicly-available specifications for its Intel S3610 drives.

SimpliVity’s official launch announcement meanwhile states that the CN-5400-F can provide five times better application response times and up to 80 percent less latency than its older hybrid storage and disk models. Moreover, the company claims that the system does so for the “lowest price per fully protected VM” of any all-flash hyperconverged appliance, which a not-so-subtle jab at Nutanix’s products.

SimpliVity is rolling out the CN-5400-F alongside a new disaster recovery feature for the homegrown operating system that powers the box and the rest of its appliance family. Dubbed RapidDR, it allows administrators to configure restoration procedures in advance so that they won’t have to waste time tinkering with settings when an outage occurs.  The vendor claims that recoveries can thus be sped up by as much as 70 percent as a result to let business operations resume faster.

RapidDR and the CN-5400-F will become generally available in the fourth quarter. To learn more about the new offerings, watch the full interview with SimpliVity’s Jesse St. Laurent below.

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