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Storage-optimized Z4D machine family, now GA, is designed for IO-intensive workloads

Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Storage-optimized Z4D machine series in Google Compute Engine with both Virtual Machine (VM) and bare-metal instances. We built Z4D for IO-intensive and business-critical workloads that require large local storage capacity and high storage performance, including SQL, NoSQL, KVrocks and vector databases, data analytics and data search.

Storage-optimized Z4D machine family, now GA, is designed for IO-intensive workloads
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Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Storage-optimized Z4D machine series in Google Compute Engine with both Virtual Machine (VM) and bare-metal instances.

We built Z4D for IO-intensive and business-critical workloads that require large local storage capacity and high storage performance, including SQL, NoSQL, KVrocks and vector databases, data analytics and...

Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) and paired with the latest enhancements in Titanium, Z4D provides up to 84,000 GiB of Local SSD (LSSD) storage.

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Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Storage-optimized Z4D machine series in Google Compute Engine with both Virtual Machine (VM) and bare-metal instances. We built Z4D for IO-intensive and business-critical workloads that require large local storage capacity and high storage performance, including SQL, NoSQL, KVrocks and vector databases, data analytics and data search. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) and paired with the latest enhancements in Titanium, Z4D provides up to 84,000 GiB of Local SSD (LSSD) storage.

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  • It improves the performance of these demanding workloads by up to 40% compared to the prior-generation Z3 instances, so you can increase your applications throughput while right-sizing your cloud investment.
  • Z4D's large LSSD capacity also makes it a strong storage solution for AI/ML training and inference workloads and running distributed parallel file systems at scale.
  • Z4D VMs and bare-metal instances The Z4D VM portfolio lets you rightsize your infrastructure and scale your clusters to meet workloads requirements by providing large total local SSD capacity and high local...
  • These VMs are optimized for data analytics (OLAP), and SQL databases like MySQL and Postgres.
  • Z4D offers two different VM types: the Z4D-highmem-standardlssd VM type, which includes seven VM shapes and offers 219 GiB of LSSD per vCPU.

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