New enterprise ready, hyper-converged
infrastructure solution offers outstanding performance and
scalability
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC), a global storage
technology and solutions leader, today announced a new
software-defined, all-flash storage solution, with HPE ProLiant DL
Rack Servers and VMware Virtual SAN™ running SQL Server 2016
workloads. Leveraging SanDisk’s enterprise-grade flash storage
products, the virtualized storage and server infrastructure
solution offers industry-leading performance for SQL Server 2016
database, demonstrating online transaction processing (OLTP)
performance results of 2.4 million New Orders Per Minute (NOPM).1
It helps customers significantly enhance the management of a
variety of demanding workloads, including business-critical
applications, virtual desktops, remote IT, disaster recovery, and
more.
The new Western Digital® HPE all-flash VMware Virtual SAN
solution allows customers to immediately leverage the latest VMware
Virtual SAN 6.2 features for their business applications and
virtual desktops on the ProLiant DL360 and DL380 rack-optimized
servers. The new hyper-converged infrastructure is both
cost-effective and highly scalable, enabling organizations to
easily incorporate additional flash and servers to meet their
increasing data, user and workload demands.
“We are excited to raise the bar in the industry with a
compelling hyper-converged infrastructure solution that runs the
new Microsoft SQL Server 2016 software -- the most virtualized
database in the industry,” said Anand Jayapalan, vice president of
SanDisk client and enterprise compute solutions marketing at
Western Digital. “Our collaboration with HPE and VMware enabled us
to deliver optimal certified Virtual SAN all-flash options from our
broad portfolio of products. This industry-leading solution is
ideal for customers seeking to lower their costs (TCA/TCO) and
complexity, while deploying fast, software-defined storage.”
With Western Digital flash-enablement, SQL Server 2016 customers
are now able to benefit from powerful new features including
enhanced “Always On Availability” groups, higher transaction rates
for In-Memory OLTP and larger in-memory tables (up to 2TB from
256GB), and superior performance as highlighted by several new
world records.2
This software-defined storage solution is part of the Hyper
Converged Infrastructure Systems (HCIS) industry trend, which is
the fastest growing data center infrastructure with 68 percentage
CAGR (2014-2019), according to Gartner.3
“VMware Hyper-Converged Software, including Virtual SAN, enables
enterprises to easily deploy high performance, flash-optimized,
hyper-converged infrastructure for a variety of workloads,
including business-critical applications, virtual desktops, remote
IT, disaster recovery, and DevOps infrastructure,” said Skip Bacon,
vice president, Products, Storage and Availability, VMware. “We are
pleased to team with WDC and HP Enterprise on this new all-flash
solution, which further streamlines deployment.”
The new Western Digital solution enables customers to achieve
even greater efficiency than traditional shared storage by fully
exploiting the deduplication, compression and erasure coding
features delivered in Virtual SAN 6.2. Customers can benefit from
up to seven times the storage reduction through deduplication and
compression. In addition, they can further increase effective
storage capacity by 50-100 percent with erasure coding, while
maintaining the same protection levels using single or double
parity protection (i.e. failure tolerance of 1 or 2).4
The new infrastructure solution was showcased at HPE Discover
2016 in the HPE and SanDisk booths.
“We were pleased to showcase this new all-flash Virtual SAN
Solution at HPE Discover 2016,” said Tim Peters, vice president and
general manager of HPE ProLiant Rack Servers, Software and
Enterprise Solutions. “This new SanDisk brand all-flash virtual SAN
solution, based on our industry leading ProLiant DL rack servers,
will provide great value for customers looking to deploy
software-defined storage environments.”
For more information about SanDisk’s solutions for
virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructures, please visit
the company’s website and enterprise blog. For information on
SanDisk enterprise flash products and software, please visit
https://www.sandisk.com/business/datacenter/products.
About Western Digital
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is an industry-leading
provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people
to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The company
addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio
of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with customer-focused
innovation, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products
are marketed under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs,
distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and
consumers.
About SanDisk
SanDisk, a Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) brand,
provides trusted and innovative flash storage products that have
transformed the electronics industry. SanDisk’s quality,
state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's
largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets
and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of
thousands of retail stores worldwide. For the latest SanDisk news
visit www.sandisk.com.
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Western Digital and SanDisk are registered trademarks or trademarks
of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or
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VMware and VMware Virtual SAN are registered trademarks or
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jurisdictions.
Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including new product offerings and product availability that are
based on current expectations and involve numerous risks and
uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements
to be inaccurate include among others: need for higher capacity,
faster storage solutions may not growth as expected, our product
offerings may not be available when we expect or gain customer
acceptance in the timeline we expect, and the other risks detailed
from time-to-time in Western Digital’s and SanDisk’s Securities and
Exchange Commission filings and reports. All statements made in
this news release are made only as of the date of this release.
Western Digital undertakes no obligations to update the information
in this release in the event facts or circumstances change after
the date of this release.
1 Based on out-of-the-box performance characterization performed
by SanDisk’s Data Propulsion lab using an RC version of SQL Server
2016, VMware™ Virtual SAN 6.2 and the HammerDB load testing and
benchmarking tool.2 TPC-H world records:
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_last_ten_results.asp3 Gartner
Data Center Conference, 2015.4
https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsan/VMware_Virtual_SAN_Datasheet.pdf
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