With multi-terabytes of low-cost tiered storage, high-performance enterprise flash and high-performance enterprise networking the building of systems that can utilize enhanced network bandwidth is made easier. Therefore, any user can use an off-the-shelf server to create a full-power Storage Area Network ( SAN). The result is that the ioSAN functions as network-attached storage, making it possible for server attached storage to communicate between systems over existing network architecture.
The ioSAN combines ioMemory and Converged Enhanced Networking and utilizes the same PCI-Express (PCIe) form factor as the company’s first product – the direct-attached ioDrive enterprise SSD. However, Fusion-io claims that even the more traditional storage-related applications, such as replication, mirroring, ILM, failover and backup/restoration could improve performance using their new product. Those who might benefit most from the technological improvements the ioSAN offers are companies who use applications that need quick access to data, such as financial services applications and Web services or media editing. Unlike the current common storage devices, the new ioSAN utilizes the relatively new SSD technology in order to bring networked computers better storage solutions. The new device was displayed at the DEMOfall conference, held earlier this month, and its main destination market are medium and large enterprises which make usage of networked computing power in order to process various tasks.
The new product makes it possible to extend the raw power of SSD across the network and can be deployed as networked, server-attached storage or integrated into networked storage infrastructure, offering a fundamentally different model for enterprises’ storage management. Fusion-io has recently introduced the ioSAN, which is the world’s first networked enterprise Solid-State Drive (SSD).
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