<html><body><p>its direct SAS attached .<br><br>------------------------------------------<br>Sven Oehme <br>Scalable Storage Research <br>email: oehmes@us.ibm.com <br>Phone: +1 (408) 824-8904 <br>IBM Almaden Research Lab <br>------------------------------------------<br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=07BBF5F9DFC93D708f9e8a93df938690918c07B@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for "Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" ---03/02/2016 08:27:47 AM---There's a bit more at"><font color="#424282">"Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" ---03/02/2016 08:27:47 AM---There's a bit more at: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/ibm_adds_sandisk_flash_colour_to_its_">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/ibm_adds_sandisk_flash_colour_to_its_</a></font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">"Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">03/02/2016 08:27 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [gpfsug-discuss] IBM-Sandisk Announcement</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt><br>There's a bit more at:<br></tt><tt><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/ibm_adds_sandisk_flash_colour_to_its_storage_spectrum/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/ibm_adds_sandisk_flash_colour_to_its_storage_spectrum/</a></tt><tt><br><br>When I looks as infiniflash briefly it appeared to be ip presented, so guess something like and Linux based system in the "controller". So I guess they have installed gpfs in there as part of the appliance.<br><br>It doesn't appear to be available as block storage/fc attached from what I could see.<br><br>Simon<br>________________________________________<br>From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org [gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org] on behalf of Oesterlin, Robert [Robert.Oesterlin@nuance.com]<br>Sent: 02 March 2016 16:22<br>To: gpfsug main discussion list<br>Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] IBM-Sandisk Announcement<br><br>Anyone from the IBM side that can comment on this in more detail? (OK if you email me directly) Article is thin on exactly what’s being announced.<br><br>SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, and IBM today announced a collaboration to bring out a unique class of next-generation, software-defined, all-flash storage solutions for the data center. At the core of this collaboration are SanDisk’s InfiniFlash System—a high-capacity and extreme-performance flash-based software defined storage system featuring IBM Spectrum Scale filesystem from IBM.<br><br></tt><tt><a href="https://www.sandisk.com/about/media-center/press-releases/2016/sandisk-and-ibm-collaborate-to-deliver-software-defined-all-flash-storage-solutions">https://www.sandisk.com/about/media-center/press-releases/2016/sandisk-and-ibm-collaborate-to-deliver-software-defined-all-flash-storage-solutions</a></tt><tt><br><br>Bob Oesterlin<br>Sr Storage Engineer, Nuance HPC Grid<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></tt><tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></tt><tt><br><br></tt><br><br><BR>
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