A recent report from IDC Research Inc. that tracked vendor revenue in the global enterprise storage systems industry noted that the hybrid flash and all-flash array market grew by nearly a combined $6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, year-over-year. If Infinidat Ltd. has anything to say about it, that number could soon be heading backward.

That’s because Infinidat has developed a different technology for storage that makes the speed of flash arrays look like a car stuck in traffic behind a 10-vehicle pileup at peak commute time, based on numbers offered by one of its top executives.

The company historically offered write-speed performance and maximum bandwidth of 12 gigs per second, according to Craig Hibbert (pictured), vice president of strategic accounts at Infinidat. That’s about to change.

“We upped that in the fall of 2018 to about 15, and we’re about to make the announcement that we’ve made tectonic increases where we’ll now have write bandwidth approaching 16 gigs per second,” Hibbert said. “That 16 is going to move up to 20. When you think that most all-flash arrays can do maybe one-and-a-half gig per second sustained writes, that gives us a massive leg up over our competition.”

Hibbert spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at theCUBE’s studio in Boston, Massachusetts. They discussed how the company’s technology handles data at petabyte scale and key patents that are driving its challenge to the current storage array business (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Spindles condensed into one rack

Infinidat’s claim to fame is not only speed. The company is dealing with a massive change in the size of the data it can handle as well.

“We have, on numerous occasions, gone into establishments that have 11, 12, 23-inch cabinets, two-and-a-half thousand spindles of EMC VMAX and replaced it with one 19-inch rack of ours,” Hibbert said. “We help you get out of the trench that is antiquity and move forward.”

How does Infinidat do it? The company’s technology relies on a set of fully-abstracted, software-driven functions that are layered on low-cost commodity hardware. Data flows into dynamic-access random memory and algorithms instruct the cache how to lay out virtual redundant arrays of independent disks, or RAID structure, according to Hibbert.

“We don’t have any Java; we don’t have any flash; we don’t have any hosts; we don’t have massive servers around the data center collecting information,” Hibbert explained. “We just have an HTML5 interface. So, our time-to-deployment is very quick.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations. (* Disclosure: Infinidat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Infinidat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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