BIOS IT has teamed up with Storage hardware maker SanDisk, storage software supplier Nexenta and server manufacturer Supermicro to provide pre-configured all-flash storage arrays.

InfiniFlash IF100 is the hardware-only version of a range of flash arrays launched earlier in 2015 by SanDisk. It scales from 64TB to 2PB and is equipped with SanDisk's proprietary PCIe SAS-connected 8TB Nand flash cards, also called InfiniFlash.

SanDisk said InfiniFlash can deliver more than 1 million IOPS, with less than one millisecond of latency.

BIOS IT configures the InfiniFlash IF100 appliance to run as just a bunch of disks (JBOD) behind the commodity supermicro head nodes, with NexentaStor's scale-out storage software controller managing data services

The move is the latest in the steadily rising trend in which customers are given more choice about which storage software they use on generic hardware, whether dedicated storage hardware, as in this case, or storage systems built from commodity server hardware.

The ability to use software-defined-storage software and choose the hardware it is implemented upon reduces costs for customers in a market that has been dominated by the big six storage array makers and their costly products.