By Emeka Aginam
The President Emerging Technologies Division, EMC Corporation, CJ Desai has said that the introduction of DSSD D5, a quantum leap in flash storage will boost fraud detection, credit and card authorization.

Being the first of a new category of flash storage Rack-Scale Flash, the solution, he said is a completely new architecture designed for the most data-intensive applications, both traditional and next-generation, which require extreme levels of performance and the lowest possible latency.

The solution , according EMC President reaches new performance heights, with real-world results that speed applications such as genetic sequencing calculations, fraud detection, credit card authorization, and advanced analytics by as much as 10X.

While enterprises at the cutting edge demand high-performance infrastructure to leverage data growth, he said that data velocity and variety for business and customer needs, organizations require shared enterprise-ready flash storage with the highest levels of performance, throughput and almost nonexistent latency.

According to him, the solution delivers ultra-dense, high-performance, highly available and very low latency shared flash storage for up to 48 clients.

The solution, he further explained addresses a different set of use cases than other all-flash storage arrays that are designed to accelerate traditional enterprise workloads.

The ultra-high performance D5 was developed from the ground up and packaged with multiple industry-first hardware and software innovations that set it apart from any other storage offering available on the market.

Accordingly, the product moves beyond storage into the realm of enabling next-generation applications that require extreme performance and scalability.

“EMC acquired DSSD in 2014 because we recognized its game-changing innovation. Today, we’re bringing a hardened, tested product to market, changing the face of flash as we know it and rounding out EMC’s already-robust flash portfolio. DSSD is a blazing fast, high-performing platform. Customers are in for magnitude improvement in what’s now possible for demanding applications in this new era of Rack-Scale Flash.”, he said.

Designed to meet the demands of the high-performance, data-intensive workloads of today, he added that D5 also delivers a crucial link to emerging next-generation applications that are processing extremely large, fast-growing working sets with 100 percent hot and active data.

Also speaking, a partner of EMC, Bob Olwig, VP of Business Strategy & Marketing, World Wide Technology, Inc, said that, “WWT has been an early DSSD partner and tested and validated the D5, and we’ve demonstrated the performance and TCO benefits of rack-scale flash to our joint customers.

“ Increasingly, customers are looking to WWT for innovations that solve challenging business problems, particularly in the areas of Big Data and high performance enterprise analytics. DSSD’s D5 storage product is screaming fast and we see immediate benefits the D5 can bring to IT environments within our Financial Services, Technology/Telco and Federal verticals.”

EMC offers DSSD D5 to benefit diverse industries currently limited by traditional architectures that were not designed for the extreme performance needs of their business critical applications. These include applications built on top of Hadoop, high performance databases and data warehouses as well as custom applications used for complex, real-time data processing and real-time analytics and insight.

DSSD D5 accelerates current databases and data warehouse solutions, such as Oracle, through an innovative low-latency data path to deliver 4X the speed for high-performance

Oracle clusters in 1/25ththe footprint of competing products. With DSSD D5, customers can consolidate multiple applications onto a single storage platform, and simplify data warehouses by eliminating multiple copies of data, complex indexing, intricate partitioning, and the need for materialized views.

For Hadoop workloads, DSSD D5 significantly accelerates operational analytics compared to traditional DAS infrastructure. Also, customers can independently scale compute and storage, capturing maximum return from their flash investment by writing only one copy of data on flash, irrespective of replication factor set in HDFS.