Pushing unpredictable data growth into the double-digit petabyte range, Fujitsu’s new ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3 are billed as the most scalable and powerful storage systems in the industry.
The new systems deliver storage peak performance of up to 4 million Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) and a capacity of up to 14 petabytes.
Boasting enterprise-class resiliency and always-on availability, the new systems address the growing demands of businesses for greater flexibility in scaling storage systems.
Enabling the consolidation of data into one system, the ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3 can combine data such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and large-scale databases, file services, business-critical applications and Big Data.
The technology can also be used to support service level management for virtual servers and other demanding virtualisation environments.
Based on what the company claims is the most flexible pay-as-you-grow architecture on the market, the new systems allow data centre customers to build up storage capacity ‘just in time’ – putting an end to over-provisioning and large upfront investments.
The company also points to unique automation and zero-downtime functions as key differentiators for the products, guaranteeing maximum system utilisation and contributing to a faster return on investment.
The brand new system architecture can cope with multiple component failures without any interruption to service.
In conjunction with the unique transparent failover feature, the ETERNUS Storage Cluster, non-stop operation is guaranteed even in the event of a complete system or site failure.
Archana Venkatraman, Senior Research Analyst, Storage at IDC says: "In today’s highly virtualised and mixed workload environments, enterprises can benefit from using scale-out storage architectures that enable them to linearly scale capacity and/or performance independent of each other while keeping management simple and costs low.
"Large enterprises – with their no-compromise requirement around performance, resilience, quality of service management, high availability and reliability – are likely to rely on newer, more scalable iterations of established enterprise storage systems for their business-critical workloads."
