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Scale-out, software-defined, flash storage platform for companies that streamlines the data path for application I/O
About DDN Infinite Memory Engine (IME)
Several key factors, both technological and commercial are creating demand for a new approach to high performance I/O. New non-volatile memory (NVM) device technologies are proliferating and media capacities are increasing rapidly. Diverse many-core processor strategies are pushing higher I/O volumes and more demanding I/O profiles. A new generation of high-business-value markets are taking advantage of analytics and machine learning and further stressing performance boundaries. Traditional file systems only crudely manage flash at scale whereas HDD performance degrades as concurrency increases. IME delivers predictable job performance, provides faster computation against data sets too large to fit in memory, accelerates I/O-intensive applications and provides a safe, cost and space-efficient landing space for bursty data.
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DDN Storage
Founded: 1998
United States
www.ddn.com/products/ime-flash-native-data-cache/
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