HP reflogging DataDirect storage

HP has added a third and surprising scale-out file system product to its high-performance cluster (HPC) portfolio, DataDirect Networks S2A9900, the storage that's sold by IBM in its SONAS product. HP already has its Ibrix and PolyServe-powered X9000 scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) in its cluster portfolio, along with …

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Posted Friday 21st May 2010 14:18 GMT

Chris Mellor 1

Wrong DDN product

I'm told that Smoke& Mirrors is actually using a 600 storage product from DDN and not the S2A9900.

Chris.

Posted Sunday 23rd May 2010 14:56 GMT

Anonymous Coward

Clarification . . .

IBM's SONAS is based on the DDN S2A6620 not the S2A9900. Yes, Smoke and Mirrors is using S2A6620's.

Posted Sunday 23rd May 2010 14:56 GMT

Chris Mellor 1

DD 6620 used in SONAS

Sent to me by DDN:-

While DDN has been partnered with IBM for 3 generations of products, including the DCS9550, DCS9900 and new SONAS products, the SONAS portfolio is not incorporating our S2A9900 product. Rather, it scales performance and capacity more modularly with our S2A6620 product. Detail on how the system is put together can be found here.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/sonasic/sonas1ic/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sonas.doc/sonas_r_product_overview.html

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Chris.

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