Storage firm EMC has released its new XtremIO storage array.
The flash architecture and software features in XtremIO are designed to provide consistent performance to any application workload over any period of time, according to the company.
XtremIO includes the following:
- Content-based data placement to keep the array optimized to within a fraction of a percent across all shaded surface displays (SSD) and array controllers and to remove duplicate data inline in the data path
- Dual-stage metadata engine to leverage the random access of flash and place data anywhere in the array without requiring system-level back-end cleaning processes
- XtremIO Data Protection (XDP), an algorithm that guards against SSD failures while delivering more usable capacity than traditional archives based on redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAIDs)
- Shared in-memory metadata to deliver a wider range of performance and to clone information in the array to enhance common tasks, such as deploying virtual machines
