Key value drive technology targets Big Data

The first key value technology is a multi-device storage solution that integrates Ethernet, SSD for low latency and large capacity HDD for higher throughput. The key value technology has a 64-bit compute and an open source Linux platform for running next gen software, defined storage applications and all housed in an industry standard 3.5" form factor.

This technology from Toshiba is intended to help enterprises meet their growing data storage needs. The technology enables a rich set of scale-out object storage features that deliver on both capital expenditures and operating expense reductions, while providing performance on a par with HDD-based primary storage.

The second key value-based technology solution is an Ethernet based HDD-only version primarily optimised for the emerging shingled magnetic recording media interface. This large capacity key value technology is optimised for archival and cold storage applications.

As scale-out object storage deployments in enterprises increase, key value technologies have the potential to be part of mainstream performance as well as capacity-oriented business applications. Enabled with scale-out storage software such as Ceph, Toshiba’s high performance and capacity-optimised key value-based object storage drives are well suited for enterprise primary storage, unstructured data, information governance, analytical data and archival and cold storage.

Toshiba key value technologies provide a homogenous building block that allows enterprise customers to buy a single class of product that can be provisioned for disparate and demanding workloads, delivering a true software-defined storage infrastructure.

The multi-device key value Ethernet drive technology will be showcased at the OpenStack Summit 2015, which is being held in Vancouver from 18^th to 22^nd May 2015. The company will be situated at booth P1.