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Apeiron CaptiveSAN allows for unrivaled performance, consolidation, and TCO when it comes to Big and Fast Data. Organisations can now ingest more, keep it all available for query for meaningful periods, and do it all in real time.

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The ChallengeThe performance challenge organisations face with storage and compute almost always comes down to latency, latency within both the storage and networking layers. Aperion removes both.

ThThe industry experts, data scientists, and users of big data are telling everyone that big data can’t move forward or deliver a positive ROI until the latency in storage has been removed.

MosMost enterprise storage solutions have in-built functionality, such as snapshots and replication. These are not needed for big data analytics, and just add latency.

ImitatinImitating the human brain in the processing of data and the creation of patterns utilised in decision making processes requires compute and storage platforms with near zero-latency. The collection and assimilation of Big Data has exploded during the pursuit of building Deep Neural Networks. The processing and analysis of that Big Data is where ththe current challenges lie with technology.

When it comes to BI and analytics using industry wide applications such as Splunk and Hadoop, traditional storage systems do not have the performance levels for data ingestion, indexing or analysis.

Apeiron’s patented technology removes the legacy storage and networking complexities, and along with them, all of the application starving latency inherent within.

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The SolutionIf you polled thought leadership in high performance computing and storage, including those in Big Data, the majority will note that the way to speed up compute in the future is to remove the legacy latencies. That means removing storage controllers and “fatty” protocols from the storage and networking equation. They will tell you it will require a complete departurefrom the status quo, that the answer lies in a new methodology. They would in fact be correct.

ThThe answer is CaptiveSAN™, a headless storage area network that utilizes end to end, native NVMe drive architecture while relying on the applications and operating systems to manage storage functionality. The advent of storage aware applications coupled with bleeding edge performance and functionality from NVMe drives is what allowed Aperion to introduce it’s CaptiveSAN™ data fabric. Blazing fast performance that blows away the competition, not tomorrow, but today. Just ask Intel, The CaptiveSAN™ is the only storage technology fast enough to network pools of industry leading Optane flash.

The CaptiveSAN™ network, based on a novel hardened layer two Ethernet tunnel, utilizes the Apeiron DataThe CaptiveSAN™ network, based on a novel hardened layer two Ethernet tunnel, utilizes the Apeiron DataFabric via an FPGA enabled software driver allowing data to be delivered efficiently across cost effective, industrystandard, 40/100 GB/S Ethernet infrastructure. The process adds a minuscule 4B encapsulation to the packet andsimplsimply just moves the intact data packet in it’s native NVMe format to a network endpoint on SAN based NVMe drives. This change in methodology almost completely removes all current latency, capacity, bandwidth, and performance constraints inherent in todays competing technologies. The end result? An external SAN using industry standard components, with pooled storage into the petabytes, that simply looks, and acts, like server captive flash at scale. Now that’s innovation.

Apeiron’s ADS 1000 CaptiveSAN™ is the world’s fastest, first, and only, near-zero latency SAN. Designed end toend with native NVMe technology and packaged with our patented headless CaptiveSAN™ data fabric softwareend with native NVMe technology and packaged with our patented headless CaptiveSAN™ data fabric softwarewith integrated switching, the ADS1000 is by far the fastest storage platform in existence.

Purpose built for Big Data, Machine Learning, AI, HPC, video distribution and rendering as well as a myriadof other applications that have outgrown traditional NAS, SAN, Hyper-converged, and Scale-Out infrastructures.

Storage aware applications and Big Data frameworks like Splunk, Carbon Black, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra,Hortonworks and Cloudera all require storage beyond it’s years, they require Apeiron CaptiveSAN.

The ADS1000 CaptiveSAN™ delivers tomorrow’s performance today, by utilizing a state of the art, re-imaginedThe ADS1000 CaptiveSAN™ delivers tomorrow’s performance today, by utilizing a state of the art, re-imaginedand re-engineered headless SAN architecture. SAN reinvented. The ADS1000 produces performance andconsolidation metrics never seen before in the data centre. Now you can do a whole lot more, with a whole lotless.

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Splunk:In independent testing, a single CaptiveSAN™ SplunkAppliance indexer averaged 1.4TB - 2.7TB of sustained ingest per day while running Splunk ES (most platforms ingest a maximum of 35-100GB per indexer per day3.

• 100 X plus performance increase on search queries• • 33 X plus performance increases on ingest rates• Up to 93% reduction in hardware infrastructure

Hadoop:True linear scaling into thousands of drives, billionsof IOPS, and nearly unlimited bandwidth by today’sstandards.

• 9 X faster reads than other SSD Flash base solutions• • 3 X times faster writes 40% less servers and 50% less data node

Here are some examples of the dramatic levels of performance increase experienced using Apeiron CaptiveSAN™ with analytic, and AI platforms:

Machine Learning and AIEnable Deeper Learning Than Ever Before With Faster Access to More Data.Systems and storage platforms simply cannot manipulate the data fast enough to enable real time decision making for Artificial Intelligence.

The ADS1000 CaptiveSAN™ removes the IO blocking infrastructure (storage and networking controllers and protocols) that have been impeding upon performance demands for decades.

WitWith an unheard of 1.5-2.7 μs of added latency, the ADS1000 enables Machine Learning and AI applications by creating a storage network that simply acts and appears as server captive flash. Petabytes of server captive flash.

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Why BellWhether you need an experienced partner to undertake the whole program or simply need a "Safe pair of hands" to support and assist through some elements of the process, Bell has a range of pre-defined service offerings that will reduce risk and accelerate time to value in every case. We also can provide a customised engagement that exactly matches your gaps and needs.

ExperiencExperience also brings with it the "know how' that will ensure success and eliminate costly "over runs" and complexities. This experience will also guide you through the challenges of issues such as security and data management throughout the whole programme.

Expertise can be the difference between a smoothly executed transformation and one fraught with unforeseen difficulties and complexities. With the right programme definition, over-runs and abortive programmes will avoid unforeseen costs which are described by leading industry analysts at between 30% and 50%.

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