Software Defined Storage

One of the many buzz words in the IT industry is “software defined” this or that, below is a fine example of a Software Defined Storage which covers almost everything an enterprise customer can look forward to.

Available alongside many of the big cloud vendors like Amazon/Azure and Google in multiple parts of the word as well as many major providers, the same is also available in full OPEX in your data center, hence it allows end user to exploit the Hybrid Cloud architecture.

Offers iSCSI (10/40 Gbps with iSer offload and FC); NAS (CIFS, NFS) and Object Storage (S3 and SWIFT compliant). Its designed for multi tenancy whereby the controller core down to the spindle on which the data sits on can be controlled and managed by the administrator, this negates many of the performance issues seen in public cloud “share everything” architectures.

Chargeable by the hour based on the resources and capacity utilized with ability to scale upwards and downwards at will, this is a solution with few equals.