Kalray pre-announced its Flashbox

Kalray, a french leader in new generation of processors for intensive data processing, seeded the industry landscape with its joint announcement with Viking Enterprise Solutions, a division of Sanmina. Together they design, develop, market and promote FLASHBOX, a new generation of disaggregated NVMe flash array. This solution is based on the Viking VDS2249R announced before the summer as a 2U chassis with 24 x 2.5' NVMe drives coupled to 2 100GbE ports or 6 100 GbE ports operating Kalray's Smart Storage Acceleration Card based on its MPPA DPU. This solutions is presented as a super fast storage array delivering 15M IOPS with less than 10µs.

This system is directly in competition with the Fungible FS1600s.

As the press release stated, the official launch is planned for end of September.