New flash storage for Big Data from IBM: Deep Flash 150

Last week, our company expanded the range of universal flash storage with a new model - Deep Flash 150 . This system, which will go on sale already this week, can work with applications and data that ordinary all-flash solutions cannot work normally. Most of these systems are focused on traditional applications, for example, the creation of virtual workstations, as well as the storage and exchange of blocks of compressed structured information.
Our company analysts estimate that about 80% of the data that various telecommunications organizations have to deal with is unstructured data. And BigData is a big problem for flash storage. The amount of such data is measured in petabytes, not terabytes. At the same time, the volume of unstructured data is growing twice as fast as the volume of ordinary data. Therefore, scalability is one of the most important criteria for flash storage.

Plus, storage systems for unstructured data should not be too expensive for companies to afford. Compress data is not always obtained. For example, videos are already compressed, so saving space by compressing video files will not work. It is necessary to increase the number of systems for their storage, which is quite expensive.

We decided to change the architecture of Deep Flash 150, making it different from the arrays of Flash Core.

Thanks to several new solutions, data storage on Deep Flash 150 will cost $ 1 per 1 GB. Both IBM and other companies have systems with similar price indicators. But other systems do this with compression and deduplication technologies. In the case of unstructured data, such information processing methods cannot be used; therefore, IBM developed a system capable of working with large BigData arrays without raising the price bar for stored information.
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The standard for Deep Flash 150 is a 3U chassis, each of which can support from 128 to 512 TB of memory. If IBM’s Spectrum Scale software is used simultaneously (this solution provides simple data management tools and integrated information processing tools throughout its life cycle that allow processing of petabytes of data and billions of files) the capacity of the IBM Deep Flash 150 can be increased up to several exabytes .


IBM Deep Flash 150 is ideal for companies working with analytics, with large amounts of data in real time, for the entertainment industry, data centers, scientific organizations engaged in the field of genetics, nuclear and quantum physics, meteorology.

This tool allows you to quickly process huge amounts of data, as well as transfer the processed information to any specified location. In the past, organizations that needed to process unstructured information with a volume of 100 TB at a certain point in time could afford flash systems that can handle only 10 TB. The IBM Deep Flash 150 is quite accessible, so that the vast majority of companies can add these storage systems to their own infrastructure, processing as much information as is required. According to some experts, IBM Deep Flash 150 is also the most productive flash storage on the market for such systems.