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Introducing the Data Intelligence Platform: DDN Infinia 2.0
DDNยท 2025-05-15 19:49
Product Overview - Infinia is a software-defined, next-generation data intelligence platform designed to support both structured and unstructured data, integrating diverse data sources into a unified platform [1] - Infinia aims to reduce complexity in AI deployments and can be deployed on various hardware configurations, including cloud, data centers, reference architectures, and OEM solutions [1] - Infinia operates on the premise of SLAs for capacity, performance, and resilience, abstracting away traditional storage management complexities like volumes and IOPS capping [1] Key Features and Capabilities - Infinia focuses on simplifying data ingestion with low-latency access, emphasizing data tagging for categorization and retrieval in complex environments with billions of objects [1] - Infinia addresses limitations in existing storage solutions by offering unlimited metadata scalability, allowing for thousands of tags per object to refine data definition [1] - Infinia includes capabilities for filtering data at the edge, enabling efficient transfer of relevant data to the core data center for analytics [2] - Infinia offers a software development kit (SDK) to enable customers and service providers to accelerate their applications by using a high-performance interface into Infinia [2] Performance and Efficiency - Infinia achieved a 22x speedup in an indexing and ingest workload on AWS by integrating Nvidia GPUs and utilizing Infinia's S3 interface, resulting in a 70% reduction in GPU resource consumption [1][2] - The company demonstrated a factor of 600 speedup in certain workloads related to identifying data for training AI models [1] Architecture and Integration - Infinia implements data services on top of a key-value store, providing different views onto the data through protocols like S3, file interfaces, and SQL interfaces [2] - Infinia includes a massively distributed SQL server, allowing native access to data and metadata stored in the key-value store through SQL queries [2]