Quantum Myriad - All-Flash Scale-Out Storage Architecture

Explore a technical presentation where Lead Storage Architect Ben Jarvis delves into the innovative architecture of an all-flash scale-out storage system designed for high-performance video and HPC workloads. Learn about a microservices container-based system running on Kubernetes that leverages white box commodity hardware, optimized for NVMe flash storage and high-performance RDMA Ethernet networks. Discover how the architecture inverts traditional storage models by optimizing software to fully utilize hardware capabilities, with a focus on memory bandwidth and minimal context switches. Understand the system's inline data protection features, data reduction capabilities through compression and deduplication, and its self-contained cluster presentation. Follow along as Jarvis explains Kubernetes integration for state management, the transactional key-value store approach, and the innovative redirected write system utilizing mirroring and erasure encoding. Gain insights into how the work-at-risk approach manages transactions, enabling independent operations with end-synchronization that reduces conflict probability and enhances scalability. The 34-minute talk, featuring industry delegates Andrea Mauro, David Klee, Justin Warren, and Max Mortillaro, concludes by highlighting optimal use cases and architectural advantages for specific workload scenarios.