Burlywood,
an innovator of flash-based storage for cloud data centers, today
announced that its TrueFlash storage software solution now supports the
NVMe protocol to enable performance scaling to capacities of 100TB or
more for customers looking to accelerate transition to the all-flash
data center.
NVMe
is a communications interface that allows solid-state drives to utilize
the high-speed PCIe bus providing lower latency, high IOPs, improved
bandwidth and reduced CPU usage. Ideally suited for data-intensive
workloads, NVMe is seeing increased adoption among organizations
deploying next-generation applications. With the multibillion-dollar
market for NVMe-enabled systems and devices exponentially growing,
Burlywood becomes the first to introduce a fully programmable, tunable
NVMe flash storage solution designed specifically for the cloud
datacenter.
"Burlywood's
programmable and tunable flash SSD controller makes it an ideal
candidate for hyperscaler and cloud data centers," said Marc Staimer,
President Dragon Slayer Consulting. "By providing more granular control,
analytics, and performance management, Burlywood is empowering service
providers to deliver more performance and flexible services at a lower
cost."
Burlywood's
TrueFlash is optimized to customer applications, uses flash more
efficiently and delivers improved performance in a more cost-effective
manner than current SSDs. TrueFlash allows for the use of the latest
flash technology with better performance earlier in the lifecycle of
flash nodes. Integrated multi-stream Quality of Service (QoS) provides
advanced traffic management and consistent performance, tuning it to
match the exact needs of customers' environments and workloads.
Burlywood's architecture supports data center needs including NVMe,
SATA, computational storage and AI.
"Burlywood
has built an architecture that allows for rapid integration of
customer-specified requirements across interfaces, protocols, FTL, QoS,
capacity, flash types and form factor," said Tod Earhart, CEO of
Burlywood. "From the beginning, TrueFlash was engineered to support low
latency and provide high performance tuned to customers' environments
and workloads. With NVMe poised to become the future of storage, we see
adding support for that protocol to be an obvious step to take in
ensuring that our customers continue to enjoy the full benefits that
TrueFlash provides."