Network Communications News (NCN) August 2017 | Page 42

KNOW HOW
Access data at
the speed of now
Micron’s new flagship NVMeSolid-State Storage Family is set to revolutionise enterprise storage,
says Eric Endebrock, vice president SSD and systems, storage business unit at Micron Technology.
M
icron Technology
has introduced
the Micron
9200 Series of
NVMe SSDs,
the company’s latest flagship
per formance solid-state storage
family. The innovative architecture
and industry leading per formance
of Micron 9200 SSDs allow
organisations to access data
faster and stay one step ahead of
the growing diversity of business-
critical workloads and surging
data demands.
The new Micron 9200 SSD
combines the cost-effective
capacity of 3D NAND with the
proven throughput and response
time of the NVM Express (NVMe)
protocol. Built from the ground
up to remove legacy layers of
hard drive interfaces, Micron’s
second generation of NVMe drives
unleashes the speed of solid state
nonvolatile memory to maximise
data centre efficiency for optimal
total cost of ownership (TCO). 
The Micron 9200 Series of
NVMe SSDs are specially designed
to deliver the blazing fast speeds,
low-latency, and high-capacity
needed to handle massive files,
images and multimedia assets
created by today’s complex
application workloads. With the
Micron 9200 SSDs added to our
SSD playbook, we are providing
customers a rich portfolio of
storage solutions to manage their
changing business needs. 
The capacity and per formance
of Micron 9200 SSDs enable
data centres to store more, do
more and know more about their
data. Innovative architecture
combining NVMe protocols on
a PCIe connection enables the
Micron 9200 SSD to deliver fast
enterprise flash performance —
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up to 10X faster than the typical
SATA SSDs on the market — while
conserving power and rack
space with its 3D NAND high-
density storage. Moreover, the
Micron 9200 is one of the first
NVMe SSDs on the market with a
capacity exceeding 10TB, meeting
the needs of even the most
storage-hungry use cases at an
attractive cost per gigabyte.
‘Today’s
business is
becoming
ever more
complicated,
requiring
faster
decision-
making and
analysis of
ever-larger
data sets
to remain
competitive.’
Meet Your Workloads Head On
Today’s business is becoming ever
more complicated, requiring faster
decision-making and analysis of
ever-larger data sets to remain
competitive. As a result, there is
a growing emphasis on denser
data centres, ensuring reliability
and data persistence, and scaling
storage infrastructure up and out
without adding latency. 
For those organisations
with high-capacity and high-
performance data needs, solid-
state storage technologies like 3D
NAND and NVM Express provide
the technology foundation for
next-level enterprise IT. Blending
the best of these technologies
for enterprise storage, Micron
9200 SSDs are ideal for such
high-per formance, high-capacity
use cases as application/
database acceleration, OLTP, high
frequency trading (HFT), and high
performance computing (HPC). For
example, when compared against
the nearest competitor in terms
of capacity and per formance in
an OLTP database workload, the
Micron 11TB 9200 ECO SSD, was
45% faster and had more than
twice the capacity. 
The Micron 9200 SSD family is
designed as the storage foundation
for the Micron SolidScale platform,
providing greater capacity for more
efficient workload optimisation
and reducing TCO. With the
9200, SolidScale will be capable
of over 250TB per node, scaling
over 5PB per rack of the highest
per formance NVMe SSD available
in shared storage today. These
new high-per formance NVMe
drives accelerate applications
and breathe new life and agility
into aging infrastructures,
delivering key capabilities for
today’s enterprise.
For further information visit:
www.micron.com