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Ten grand win or lose – Infinidat is spoiling for a fight against all-flash array vendors with its “Faster than All-Flash Challenge”. The company is confident its hybrid array is faster than any all-flash array out there, having beaten Pure and EMC arrays in testing. It says its box will beat any all-flash array users care to stand against it in “any real application workloads”. And it will donate $10,000 to The American Cancer Society if it wins such a test or a charity of your choice if it loses.

The ever-increasing need for fast, secure access to ballooning volumes of data continues to be good news for storage suppliers. Infinidat highlighted the 144 per cent year-on-year growth for its flash-optimized storage product and big customers including US telecoms. “We think that most of our competitors go for land-grab, revenue growth at all costs which leads to negative cash flow. We are doing exactly the opposite,” said Infinidat’s CTO Brian Carmody.

Infinidat has run performance tests against Pure and EMC all-flash arrays and surpassed them with its array. Back in November EMC compared its Unity 600F array against Pure’s FlashArray//m50 and //m70, with 8K and 16K IOPS and other tests. The Unity advantage was substantial and Pure disputed the real world validity of the results.
Infinidat ran the same tests, it says, with its hybrid F6230 array, configured with 1.1TB of DDR-4 DRAM, 200TB TLC NAND, and 480 3TB nearline HDDs. The F6230 was configured with a 200TB data set instead of Pure and EMC’s 50TB. Why? Infinidat said today’s workloads need performance at scale. In-line compression was enabled as well.

The man is an enigma, but you can’t expect billionaires to be easily understood people. He has performed several storage engineering firsts; he develops products and is basically a storage legend in his own lifetime. He is also said to have a massive ego. Currently, he runs high-end storage array supplier Infinidat and two on-demand helicopter businesses. He is a one-time Israeli Defence Force commander, a Technion University graduate and now Distinguished Fellow, an ex-EMC fellow, an ex-IBM fellow, a man who inspires extraordinary loyalty and is rumoured to have had volcanic strategy disagreements with the most senior corporate storage business executives. His Symmetrix high-end array was the single most important product in EMC’s history, catapulting the company to unparalleled dominance as a standalone storage supplier, and is still in production today as the VMAX system. He is Moshe Yanai.

INFINIDAT’s InfiniBox content pack for vRealize Log Insight provides customers with the capability to easily monitor and analyze InfiniBox systems, by converting syslog messages into helpful insights. InfiniBox is a flash optimized storage platform that provides faster than all-flash performance for real-world workloads and a truly unified SAN and NAS solution, supporting multiple protocols in a single system. The modern data center requirements are rapidly evolving and leading to innovations that are driven by changing trends in cloud infrastructure, virtualization, storage demands, security, IPv6, and the dynamically changing enterprise needs. These trends require equally advanced solutions for managing critical IT services in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

Infinidat Ltd. ended fiscal 2016 with record year-over-year global revenue growth. The rise in demand is based on the increasing need for faster access to greater volumes of data for advanced analytics on real-world workloads particularly in data-driven key vertical markets such as healthcare, financial services, telecommunications and cloud services. As evidence of the company’s 144% year-over-year global growth and growing customer base, Infinidat is changing the traditional storage array to exceed the needs of ever-changing and increasing workloads including AI and machine learning with its flash-optimized storage solution.

Yearly since 2013, we are ranking the top fastest growing storage companies in sales, either start-ups, private or public firms, from 2015 to 2016 (calendar year or fiscal year), based on published figures only. This ranking will be updated when we will get more information from other companies. They are all privately held – but five – and about never reveal the exact figure of their sales. But a bunch of them have published press releases demonstrating their growth in percentage of sales, bookings or in number of customers or units shipped. We have classified below these firms depending on their published growth.

Listen to INFINIDAT CMO, Randy Arseneau and Senior Director of Cloud Solutions, Erik Eyberg were featured on Intel’s podcast “Conversations in the Cloud.” They discussed how INFINIDAT helps its clients get value out of their data.

Software-Defined Storage (SDS) may hold a lot of promise. But implementation can be far from straightforward. Organizations may have hardware and software dating back several generations. So what is the best way to go about it? When thinking about implementing a first-generation, software-defined storage solution, make sure to include much more than just the hardware and software costs as you calculate your total cost of ownership (TCO). Add in the extra space, power and cooling costs for a lab to implement and test a solution before putting it into production, and put in headcount costs (and expertise) needed to implement a solution. “These are all important costs that must be factored in as a part of all new software-defined solutions,” said Steve Kenniston, vice president of product marketing, Infinidat.

Virtualisation, a mainstay in most IT environments today, has come to represent a panacea for the data centre, eradicating a tranche of issues associated with increasing workloads and organisational growth. But it doesn’t come without its problems. Through its inherent abstraction of physical hardware components, virtualisation maximises resources, increases data centre space and yields value from servers.Its benefits are many, including saving capex costs on physical hardware, achieving better utilisation of existing resources and better balance of performance and management.In addition, the costs for infrastructure administration and management remain within IT operations and the maximum return on the hardware investment can be achieved.