Case Study: Intel Optane achieves DAS-like performance with GigaIO FabreX

Intel Optane - Customer Case Study

Intel Optane wanted to achieve storage performance that matched direct-attached storage while gaining the flexibility and scalability of a shared architecture. GigaIO’s FabreX PCIe Network Fabric was used to explore whether a composable infrastructure could deliver NVMe-oF and pooled storage without sacrificing performance.

Using GigaIO FabreX with Intel Optane SSDs in both composed and NVMe-oF setups, the customer saw performance essentially identical to the converged DAS configuration. In FIO testing at 128KB block size, read IOPs, write IOPs, bandwidth, and latency were nearly the same across all three configurations, showing that GigaIO delivered DAS-like performance with NAS-like flexibility and sharing.

Intel Optane