Tegile Systems Inc. took the opportunity at VMworld 2016 yesterday to launch it all-new, all-flash, clustered IntelliFlash Cloud Platform.

IntelliFlash CP is a rack-scale system designed for large enterprises looking to build private clouds, and incorporates multi-controller clusters and NVMe, giving it the ability to scale out horizontally and vertically across protocols. The controllers share a single global namespace, with shared access to multiple grades of media with intelligent data placement. The system is designed to allow enterprises to build massively scalable infrastructure packing tens of petabytes of flash storage, leading to significant performance gains and lower affordability than public clouds, Tegile said in a statement.

Tegile’s original IntelliFlash HD (high density) product was first introduced at last year’s VMworld, billed as a single platform with the ability to deploy flash and hybrid in the same system. It was based on SanDisk Corp.’s InfiniFlash JBOF hardware, which squeezed 512 TB of flash capacity into a 3U enclosure.

With Tegile’s new system, it’s possible to pack up to eight 3U IntelliFlash units in a single rack, with 18U reserved for controllers and a rack switch. The set up provides a total of 10 TB of effective capacity after data reduction, the company said.

IntelliFlash HD supports two types of flash media – a capacity tier and a performance tier. Meanwhile the IntelliFlash OS supports features including clones, compression, inline deduplication, snapshots and thin provisioning. VMware integration is enabled via SRM, VAAI, VASA and VVOLs, and the system supports both block and file access.

Tegile says IntelliFlash CP serves as the foundation of an integrated system that relies on NVMe to “massively reduce network latency”, fueling enterprises insatiable appetite for real-time data access. The system leverages NVMe to connect SSDs directly to the controller plane, allowing it to perform memory-to-memory transfers at sub-millisecond latencies, the company claimed, adding that this kind of latency is “unprecedented” in the storage industry.

“The market is changing. The performance and economics of flash have dramatically advanced,” said Rohit Kshetrapal, CEO of Tegile. “We’ve always prided ourselves on our flash architecture being designed to evolve with customers’ future needs. Now we’re doing it again – equipping businesses to further accelerate applications while leveraging flash density to drive down data center costs.”

Tegile’s IntelliFlash Cloud Platform is set to hit general availability in Q1 2017 with configuration pricing starting at $0.50 per GB.