Accelerating workload performance is paramount for enterprise success, and scale-out architectures are often the best way to achieve performance goals. Increasingly, customer applications depend on fast, reliable access to massive amounts of data to derive insights and provide the most value. Latency from slow storage or non-optimized software often results in under-utilized compute resources.
There are two key approaches to resolving this scenario: using high-performance flash-based storage, such as Micron SSDs with NVMe™ or deploying advanced software-defined storage solutions that are designed for massive high-performance data lakes, like WekaFS from WekaIO. But, when both approaches are used together, the benefits can be even better.
WekaIO and Micron worked together to build a flexible storage architecture through direct engineer-to-engineer collaboration, combining the raw performance of NVMe storage with the flexibility, manageability and scalability of a shared namespace.
Together, this delivers an integrated solution for on-premises local NVMe (see chart) or native-cloud/hybrid-cloud implementations using the Amazon Web Services S3™ object storage service.
When the goal was to get the best possible performance results for three industry-standard benchmarks, WekaIO chose Micron 9000 series SSDs with NVMe; resulting in impressive performance metrics for the SPEC SFS® 2014, the HPC IO-500 and the financial industry’s STAC-M3™ benchmarks.
The WekaIO architecture offers a departure from legacy storage systems. WekaFS is a fully distributed, parallel file system that is designed to deliver high-performance file services. It leverages SSDs with NVMe while offering massive scalability using object storage. WekaFS supports a broad set of client access, file-based protocols via POSIX, NFS, CIFS and NVIDIA GPUDirect™ Storage.
To learn more, visit the links below or contact your Micron account representative to see how Micron and WekaIO can help you accelerate your business.
