Liqid and Intel® Optane™ Aim for DRAM at Gartner IT Infrastructure 2018

At Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations, and Cloud Strategies Conference 2018 (Inspur partner booth # 347), Liqid, leading provider of composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) and NVMe solutions, is demonstrating Liqid and Intel® Optane™ solid state drive solutions that combine the unparalleled high throughput, low latency, quality of service (QoS) and endurance of Intel Optane SSDs with Liqid’s industry-leading PCIe fabrics to scale 2-4X the capacity and bandwidth. Achieving DRAM memory-like speeds, the Liqid and Intel Optane solution suite is available in capacities of up to 1.5 TB for high-performance workloads associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), cloud and edge computing environments. “The Intel Optane P4800X SSD is the first Intel product to combine the attributes of memory and storage, which is leading to a shift in how storage and memory are deployed in the data center,” said James Myers, Director of Storage Solutions Architecture, Intel. “By partnering with Liqid, we can offer Intel customers the ability to flexibly deploy Optane SSDs solutions into a Liqid Grid composable system, or within the Liqid Element SSD consolidating multiple Optane SSDs into a single SSD with significantly increased capacity and bandwidth, effectively doubling the data speeds that Optane can achieve for the most demanding applications for which lightning fast data manipulation is imperative.”