Fast Data: Are Your Seatbelts Fastened?

Jeff Denworth, VP of Marketing
Learn in this webinar how DDN has raised the performance bar (again) in announcing the SFA 12K(TM) series of scalable storage platforms. The SFA12K product family is a series of systems which have been designed from the ground-up for the next wave of data creation, distribution and processing. With this offering, DDN has established a clear leadership along a number of key dimensions
Big Data Innovation We're now delivering the features that our competitors only dream of having, including our In-Storage Processing™ and Storage Fusion Fabric™. These solutions not only greatly simplify big data storage environments, but also enable applications to excel.

Performance The SFA12K is 2.7 times faster than it's next-closest competitor... and oh by the way, that's our own SFA10K-X. The system is up to 800% faster than competing systems.

Data Center Efficiency The SFA12K can reduce data center requirements and is astonishingly 240% more efficient than competing scale out technology

Engineered Scalability With a focus on managing large scale systems, technologies such as DDN's SATAssure™, ReACT™ and new Quality of Service serve as validation of the ~1M lines of code we've built into our platform that makes managing large data sets easiest with the SFA
May 3 2012
62 mins
Fast Data:  Are Your Seatbelts Fastened?
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Big Data is causing IT departments to revisit their assumptions about storage, and in many cases to look at new types of storage architectures. This channel will highlight how DDN's customers have achieved success in handling their most difficult Big Data problems

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