ActiveData

The Data Challenge

Data has become one of the greatest drivers of our economy, our businesses, and our IT infrastructures.  As data-intensive workloads scale, it’s critical to implement data-driven, software-defined architectures that meet the demands of large data sets.  These architectures are categorized into tiers based on characteristics such as performance, capacity, connectivity, and cost.  They are combined in a variety of data tiering strategies to efficiently optimize a complete data pipeline for the unique requirements of an organization’s workloads.  A typical data-intensive pipeline will benefit from a fast, in-memory tier for latency-sensitive workloads, a second fast and scalable flash tier for I/O-intensive workloads, and a capacity-optimized tier for long-term storage. 

Flash has quickly become a critical technology in the high-performance tier of many organizations’ data pipelines.  While flash is valuable at boosting the local performance of any server platform, its true potential is unlocked only when coupled with a software architecture that can aggregate capacity and performance across platforms with the stability required for enterprise use.  Expertly tuning the software for a purpose-designed hardware platform is the last step to extracting the greatest value from a flash data tier.  Ultimately, the right partnership can provide an optimized platform with the architecture, integration, support, and managed services to ensure your success.

Penguin Computing™ ActiveData

Penguin Computing ActiveData^TM is a high-performance flash storage platform, optimizing robust software-defined capabilities with tuned hardware for blazing fast I/O performance that scales.  ActiveData addresses the unique demands of your flash storage tier, while effortlessly integrating into your overall data pipeline.  ActiveData delivers massive bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and storage features to manage modern enterprise workloads and workflows.

This solution provides a production-ready, flash storage solution that can accelerate a wide range of workloads including AI/ML, HPC, media streaming, and transcoding.  This flash platform can improve performance for a variety of use cases, whether it’s data ingest, batch feature extraction, hyperparameter optimization, inferencing and versioning, or other tasks.  ActiveData provides the same benefits regardless of whether it’s running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid architecture. Direct access to data eliminates time-consuming data staging at the compute layer and storage silos which reduces wall clock time.

You can implement ActiveData as a stand-alone solution or you can combine it with other Penguin Computing Data, HPC, AI, and Cloud solutions to provide an end-to-end complete compute platform.

Penguin Computing ActiveData with WekaFS addresses the unique challenges of high IO storage workloads with the scalability needed to tame your ever-growing data sets. ActiveData with WekaFS delivers massive bandwidth for ingest and training, ultra-low latency for improved inferencing, and storage features to manage the most data-intensive workloads. 

Features:

• Balanced high-performance flash storage for predictable performance that scales
• Workload-optimized storage with high bandwidth and low latency
• Flexibility for dedicated or converged deployment models
• Supports bare-metal, containerized, virtual, cloud and hybrid deployments

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