InfiniteIO,
the world's fastest metadata platform to reduce application latency,
today announced the new Application Accelerator, which delivers dramatic
performance improvements for critical applications by processing file
metadata independently from on-premises storage or cloud systems. The
new platform provides organizations across industries the lowest
possible latency for their mission-critical applications, such as
AI/machine learning, HPC and genomics, while minimizing disruption to IT
teams.
"Bandwidth
and I/O challenges have been largely overcome, yet reducing latency
remains a significant barrier to improving application performance,"
said Henry Baltazar, vice president of research at 451 Research.
"Metadata requests are a large part of file system latency, making up
the vast majority of requests to a storage system or cloud. InfiniteIO's
approach to abstracting metadata from file data offers IT managers a
nondisruptive way to immediately accelerate application performance."
As unstructured data has grown exponentially, requests for file
metadata-information such as file attributes and access privileges-have
also skyrocketed to become a major bottleneck for application
performance. InfiniteIO's latest release, built on the InfiniteIO Metadata Engine
(IME) architecture, responds to file metadata requests directly from
the network instead of the network-attached storage (NAS) or cloud
storage system. InfiniteIO's metadata abstraction can reduce latency
from seconds to microseconds for all files in a hybrid cloud
environment. This results in faster access to data and speeds up
application performance.
"Reducing latency is the last frontier in improving application
performance. The tech industry has been focused on making incremental
performance improvements with faster storage and file systems, when the
biggest opportunity is in removing the file system latency created by
processing metadata requests," said Mark Cree, CEO of InfiniteIO.
"Separating metadata processing from file I/O significantly decreases
application latency, which translates into reduced product development
cycles and greater worker productivity."
Turbocharging Data-intensive Applications
The Application Accelerator allows organizations to go faster and easily
implement innovation, with minimal to no disruption to existing IT
operations:
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Completely offloads and responds to metadata requests at the speed of
DRAM, which improves performance up to 50% for workloads such as machine
learning training models
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Delivers more than 3 million metadata operations per second, doubling the performance of the previous-generation product
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Deploys without requiring changes to existing applications or storage systems
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Supports enterprise growth by scaling to 1 billion files in a single node or 2 billion files in a clustered configuration
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Enhances the performance of all NAS systems, even all-flash and NVMe arrays
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Can be upgraded with high-performance data tiering capabilities
InfiniteIO today also released new software features that continue to simplify and accelerate tiering of cold data
from primary NAS systems to lower-cost cloud storage, such as the
ability to scan 1 billion files in a day and a new API for cloud usage
charge-back. The IME architecture never recalls metadata back from the
cloud, increasing performance and avoiding cloud egress charges. Robust
policies automatically tier files so that even rarely accessed
information is available on-demand, without disruption or performance
compromises.
Exhibiting at SC19
Attendees of the Supercomputing 19 show in Denver can meet InfiniteIO
application acceleration experts in the Startup Café inside the exhibit
hall from Nov. 18 to 21, 2019. Find more information and book a meeting
at https://infinite.io/supercomputing.
Availability
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The InfiniteIO Application Accelerator is available immediately from
InfiniteIO's growing network of international resellers and solution
providers.
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Existing customers with current maintenance agreements can add the new
high-performance data tiering features with non-disruptive online
upgrades.