Highlights:
- InfuzeOS makes several copies of every record and distributes them over multiple storage drives to lessen the impact of hardware failures.
- Last quarter, Lenovo’s storage, software, and services division saw a 35% growth in revenue compared to the same period last year.
Lenovo Group Ltd. acquired Infinidat Ltd., a venture-supported developer of data center storage systems.
The financial details of the transaction were not revealed. Infinidat had already raised over USD 350 million from investors such as Goldman Sachs and TPG. The business turned a profit in 2022.
The InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA lines are two storage array families that Infinidat provides. While the former product series blends disk drives with flash, the latter is built on an all-flash design. The quickest of the two, the InfiniBox SSA line, claims to handle input and output operations with latency of less than a millisecond.
An in-house storage operating system named InfuzeOS powers both product ranges. According to Infinidat, the program simplifies data administration chores in a number of ways.
Neural Cache, a caching method built into InfuzeOS, is driven by artificial intelligence models. To speed up data retrieval, it keeps company’s most frequently requested files in DRAM, which is 1,000 times faster than flash. By omitting some of the steps typically involved in the process, the feature also cuts down on the amount of time needed to write data to storage.
InfuzeOS makes several copies of every record and distributes them over multiple storage drives to lessen the impact of hardware failures. Because the other copies are still accessible, the data within is not lost in the event that one of the drivers fails. According to Infinidat, InfuzeOS can also prevent data loss in the event that several drives fail simultaneously.
The G4 series, a new generation of arrays, was added to the company’s product lineup last year. An enhanced all-flash InfiniBox SSA model with a 16-terabyte capacity is part of the portfolio. Additionally, there are brand-new InfiniBox G4 hybrid storage systems with a 20-terabyte maximum capacity.
Infinidat offers InfiniGuard, a data protection service, in addition to its hardware. It allows businesses to make unchangeable backup copies of their data, which ransomware cannot alter or erase. Administrators have the option to remove those backup files from the company network as an extra precaution.
One of the leading manufacturers of entry-level and midrange storage arrays is Lenovo. The company claims that by acquiring Infinidat, it would increase its market share in the upscale data center storage market. Lenovo also anticipates that its internal engineering programs will be enhanced by the startup’s software research and development skills.
“Infinidat’s expertise in high-performance, high-end data storage solutions broadens the scope of our products, and together, we will drive new opportunities for growth,” said Greg Huff, Chief Technology Officer of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group.
Lenovo’s infrastructure department produces a variety of data center devices in addition to storage systems. Servers designed for AI workloads are on the list. Neptune, a cooling system that employs warm water to dissipate heat produced by graphics cards, CPUs, and associated memory, powers such machines.
Last quarter, Lenovo’s storage, software, and services division saw a 35% growth in revenue compared to the same period last year. During the same period, Neptune-powered server sales increased by 48%.