FinTech: Alleviate performance, cost & power challenges
Optimize the data pipeline to process more ticks with ScaleFlux SSDs
The Challenge
You need to process ever expanding Tick Data volumes.
The Solution
CSD 3000: An NVMe SSD designed specifically for demanding workloads.
The Benefits
With hardware-based compression in the drives, you improve efficiency, TCO, and application responsiveness.
“ScaleFlux SSDs in-line compression enables you to analyze more data in the same footprint, reducing server and storage sprawl, all without adding complexity! We found in ScaleFlux a great new business partner.”
– IT Manager at a large American investment company.
Challenge: Ever expanding Tick Data volumes
This is common problem our customers face daily.
You need quick data access, which necessitates the use of SSDs to fulfill the IO requirements. The data set is expanding, moving from a few terabytes to tens or even hundreds of terabytes, which intensifies concerns regarding the expense, energy, and physical space needed for storage. Compressing the data appears to be a viable solution to mitigate the impact on storage space, cost per usable terabyte, and power consumption. However, implementing data compression on the CPU might lead to latency issues, disrupt the performance of analytics applications, and could ultimately result in higher overall power usage.
Solution: The CSD 3000
An NVMe SSD designed specifically for demanding workloads
ScaleFlux CSD 3000 is an NVMe SSD tailored for challenging workloads, featuring a distinctive ability to compress (and decompress) data directly on the drive. This leads to reduced latency, enhanced IO, and improved performance per watt – creating a triple advantage scenario not just for your drives, but for your whole server.
Benefits: More efficiency, TCO, and application responsiveness
How is this possible? All thanks to the hardware-based compression in the drives.
- Analyzing more data in the same server footprint
- Utilizing compression to reduce storage costs and improve latency & IO (instead of trading off between storage costs and latency & IO penalties)
- Extending the lifespan of flash storage to match server refresh cycles
- Avoiding the need to install any new drivers or software since the drives use standard NVMe drivers & commands
- Scaling compression throughput with each drive you install instead of over-buying CPU cores to handle the potential future workload