Blocks & Files: Supermicro Partnering with Graid Technology and Qumulo

“An all-flash Supermicro system fitted with SupremeRAID™ and running Qumulo’s software ought to provide a screamingly fast scale-out filesystem package.”

(BlocksAndFiles.com, Chris Mellor, November 2, 2022) Supermicro is partnering with Graid and Qumulo in two separate deals to have customers buy its servers fitted with Graid’s GPU-powered RAID cards or used to run Qumulo’s scale-out filesystem software.

Update, 7 Nov 2022:  Graid erasure coding capability added.

These deals give Graid a new channel to market for its SupremeRAID card, and Qumulo a value-oriented filesystem node.

Supermicro and  Graid Technology are cooperating in customer deals. Supermicro EMEA President Vik Malyala said: “We are thrilled to team with an innovative and sustainable company as Graid Technology.” Graid’s card “offloads RAID and NVMe data durability tasks from the CPU, freeing server resources for compute intensive workloads. Customers will quickly see the benefits in applications ranging from VMs and Containers to AI and HPC. It’s a very effective addition to high performance storage based on Supermicro’s flexible Building Block Solutions.”

It is claimed that the combination of Supermicro and SupremeRAID will offer customers an easy-to-configure option for data protection with a lower cost of deployment and outstanding NVMe and NVMeoF performance.

Graid CEO Leander Yu spoke of Supermicro and Graid having “a true competitive advantage in the NVMe and NVMeoF marketplace where together we will have an unbeatable combination.”

Supermicro now gets added to the existing list of Graid’s technology and go-to-market partners: 

Qumulo and Supermicro

Scale-out filesystem supplier Qumulo has announced it’s supplying a hybrid-NVMe SSD and disk drive product from Supermicro that optimizes performance and price in a single platform. 

Qumulo CTO Kiran Bhageshpur said: “We are thrilled to offer our customers more platform choices. Qumulo’s intelligent caching technology, which ensures that most reads and all writes are NVMe-first for best performance, takes advantage of the new Supermicro NVMe + HDD platform to maximize performance at an affordable price point.”

Don Clegg, SVP Worldwide Sales at Supermicro, said: “Our continued collaboration with Qumulo  delivers industry-leading storage solutions for customers demanding higher performance and lower TCO.”

The actual Supermicro product isn’t specified but we are told these “new Hybrid-NVMe nodes provide high-density storage in just 1U of rack space.” Scanning Supermicro’s website product pages reveals storage servers like the 1U SSG-610P-ACR12N4H and SSG-610P-ACR12N4L which would fit that description: 

These have gen 3 Xeon CPUs, 12 x 3.5-inch drive bays, and 2 or 4 SDD bays. Twelve 20TB HDDS would give them 240TB of raw disk capacity and 10 would provide 2.4PB, plenty enough for Qumulo nodes.

An all-flash Supermicro system fitted with Graid’s card and running Qumulo’s software ought to provide a screamingly fast scale-out filesystem package. Qumulo implements erasure coding, but Graid already has that, so the possibility is obvious.

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About Graid Technology

Chosen by CRN as one of the Ten Hottest Data Storage Startups of 2021 and a 2022 Emerging Vendor in the Storage & Disaster Recovery category, Graid Technology Inc. has developed the world’s first NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card to unlock the full potential of enterprise SSD performance. We’re headquartered in Silicon Valley, with an R&D center in Taiwan, and are led by a dedicated team of experts with decades of experience in the SDS, ASIC and storage industries. Graid Technology Inc. is redefining performance standards for enterprise data protection: a single SupremeRAID™ card delivers 19 million IOPS and 110GB/s of throughput. For more information on Graid Technology Inc., connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Additional Resources

• Supermicro and Graid Technology Announce Collaboration Targeted at Customers Deploying NVMe and NVMeoF
• SC22:️ SupremeRAID™ Featured in ASUS Booth #3816 at Super Compute
• Graid Technology Announces Partnership With Global IT Solutions Aggregator TD SYNNEX
• Graid Technology Featured: 8 Silicon Valley Startups Innovating Data Management – Information Age