DDN's Petabyte Scale And Fast Infinia Object Store Developed From The Ground Up
Blocks&Files, Wednesday, November 8,2023
DDN is launching an Infinia scale-out object storage software product designed from the ground up for AI and cloud environments and optimized for flash drives.
Infinia has been developed because DDN realized it couldn't bolt on new features to EXAScaler and develop the storage qualities needed to cover edge site, datacenter and public cloud distributed storage needs. Such data will inevitably need immense scale, shared resources and storage efficiency. It will be metadata-intensive, filtered, and used by a complex mix of applications - such as those involved in end-to-end AI model development and production. Data governance will also be a concern.
Eight years ago, DDN recognized that a new storage platform needed to be developed, joining companies such as Quantum (Myriad), StorONE, and VAST Data in this regard. Like Quantum, DDN has an existing customer base which it can use for storage development strategy validation, future needs identification, and help with product development and testing.