Best Software-Defined Storage (SDS)

QuantaStor is a unified Software-Defined Storage platform designed to scale up and out to make storage management easy while reducing overall enterprise storage costs. With support for all major file, block, and object protocols including iSCSI/FC, NFS/SMB, and S3, QuantaStor storage grids may be configured to address the needs of complex workflows which span sites and datacenters. QuantaStor’s storage grid technology is a built-in federated management system which enables QuantaStor servers to be combined together to simplify management and automation via CLI and REST APIs. The layered architecture of QuantaStor provides solution engineers with unprecedented flexibility and application design options that maximizes workload performance and fault-tolerance for a wide range of storage workloads. QuantaStor includes end-to-end security coverage enabling multi-layer data protection “on the wire” and “at rest” for enterprise and cloud storage deployments.

Are you troubled by storage management nightmares? Whether you are losing sleep over managing different storage tiers for hot, warm, and cold data, or finding it hard to address disruptions and slowdowns, you can now rest easy with a truly software-defined storage solution. DataCore SANsymphony enables you to centrally automate and manage capacity provisioning and data placement across your diverse storage environment (any SAN, DAS, HCI, or JBOD). Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology and a rich set of data services, SANsymphony gives ultimate flexibility to control how you want to store and protect your data. SANsymphony allows any combination of hyper-converged, converged, and storage virtualization deployment models to reduce business risks, IT complexities and costs associated with various architectures, data migration initiatives and protocols. DataCore’s hardware-agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in & provides ultimate flexibility.

StoneFly is the provider of high-performing, elastic and always available IT infrastructure solutions. Coupled with StoneFusion, our intelligent & patented operating system architecture, we can support your data dependent processes and applications seamlessly anywhere, anytime. Configure backup, replication, disaster recovery, scale out block, file and object storage in private and / or public clouds. Support virtual, container hosting & more. StoneFly also offers Cloud data migration services for email, archives, documents, SharePoint and physical and virtual storage. Total backup and disaster recovery solutions in a single appliance or cloud solution. Hyperconverged options allow physical machines to be restored as virtual machines running directly on the StoneFly disaster recovery appliance for instant recovery.

Red Hat Gluster Storage stores data without the need for a metadata server, eliminating any single point of failure. Scale as you grow. Deploy a multi-tenant storage system in a few minutes, without being tied to rigid innovation cycles or specific hardware configurations. Run Red Hat Gluster Storage where it makes the most sense: bare metal, virtualized, containerized, or in the cloud. The transition to digital workflows and content has increased demand for digital storage. Red Hat Gluster Storage is ideal for the media industry. Build cost-effective, agile, and optimal virtual server and storage infrastructures across heterogeneous hardware platforms. Storage needs for media and entertainment are outpacing capacity and budgets. The transition to digital workflows and content has increased demand for digital storage. With lower costs than proprietary storage vendors and the ability to scale on demand, Red Hat Gluster Storage is ideal for the media industry.

Consolidate block, file, and object data on-premises with an enterprise storage platform that delivers a cloud-native experience. IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while helping reduce costs and provisioning times.​ IT Leaders are shifting from a traditional storage approach towards integrated enterprise storage platforms that can handle diverse modern workloads seamlessly across on-premises and hybrid environments to simplify IT operations, reduce costs, and adapt to new and changing requirements.​ IBM Storage Ceph is the only enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data protocols within a single software-defined solution that can support most enterprise operational workloads to help reduce long-term costs of operating dedicated storage systems, delivering a cloud-like experience on-premises.​

FalconStor is a trusted data protection innovator with over an Exabyte of data under management, enabling the world’s most demanding enterprises to modernize their data backup and archival operations across data centers and public clouds. The company delivers increased data security and provides the fast recovery from ransomware attack while driving down costs by up to 90 percent. FalconStor is trusted by 1,000 customers and a network of partners around the world.

Unified, infinitely scalable and simple to manage storage solution designed for modern data centers. It seamlessly transforms enterprise storage infrastructure into a powerful vehicle to accelerate innovation. SUSE Enterprise Storage is a flexible, reliable, cost-efficient and intelligent storage solution. Powered by Ceph, a cloud-native solution is engineered for a wide range of demanding workloads–from archival to high performance computing (HPC). Available for x86 and Arm architecture, it is deployed on generally available off-the-shelve hardware, allowing businesses to store and efficiently process data in order to get competitive edge–optimize business operations, develop deeper customer insights and business intelligence delivering better products and services. SUSE Enterprise Storage supports Kubernetes and seamlessly integrates with ML/AI, EDGE, IoT and embedded architecture.

Red Hat® Ceph Storage is an open, massively scalable, simplified storage solution for modern data pipelines. Engineered for data analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), and emerging workloads, Red Hat Ceph Storage delivers software-defined storage on your choice of industry-standard hardware. Scale to unprecedented levels, up to 1 billion objects and beyond, without compromising on performance. Expand or shrink storage clusters with no downtime. Gain the agility you need to get to market faster. Start faster with dramatically simplified installation. Quickly gain insights from massive amounts of unstructured data with streamlined operation, monitoring, and capacity management. Safeguard your data from outside threats and hardware failures with integrated data protection and data security features, including client-side and object-level encryption. Easily handle backup and recovery with a single point of control and administration.

Reduce storage cost and complexity with VMware vSAN, an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides the easiest path to HCI and hybrid cloud. Integrated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) powered by vSAN, combined with vSphere, enables you to manage compute and storage with a single, integrated platform. Take the easiest path to future-ready HCI and hybrid cloud with an integrated solution that improves business agility, speeds operations and lowers costs. Extend virtualization to storage with a secure hyperconverged solution that leverages existing tools and is integrated with your hypervisor and leading public clouds. Achieve better price per performance by supporting the latest storage technology on industry-standard servers.

Improve the way you manage, protect and store data, with unlimited access to select IBM SDS products and IBM Cloud®Object Storage. IBM Storage Software Suite provides a unified interface that streamlines data management, and cost-per-TB pricing makes it easier to plan as your capacity grows. Non-production use of the software in test environments is included. Straightforward per-TB pricing for the entire suite is related to the amount of storage capacity, not the type of storage or how it is used. There are no licensing headaches when changing from one type of storage to another or from one data type to another. All the IBM Storage Software Suite products share a consistent user interface, reducing user errors and the need for training. All the products are designed to work together, streamlining integration and worldwide support for the complete solution.

NetApp ONTAP Select offers robust enterprise storage services that are easily deployed on your choice of commodity hardware from the comfort of your own data center. It combines the best of the cloud, in terms of agility and granular capacity scaling, with the flexibility, resilience, and locality of on-premises storage. ONTAP Select converts a server’s internal disk drives, NVMe, SSD or HDD, as well as HCI and external array storage, into an agile, flexible storage system with many of the same benefits offered by dedicated storage systems based on NetApp® ONTAP® data management software. Spin up storage resources with cloudlike agility from start to serving data in just minutes. Move and replicate data easily with consistent management across your data fabric. Dynamically add capacity and scale performance to meet changing business needs. And deploy Extreme Edge for mobile or autonomous vehicles, remote industrial environments, and tactical field deployments.

IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) is a modern implementation of software-defined storage, making it easier for you to deploy fast, highly scalable storage for AI and big data. With the low latency and high performance NVMe storage technology and 8YB global file system and global data services of IBM Spectrum Scale, the ESS 3200 and ESS 5000 nodes can grow to YB configurations in a single federated global storage system from edge to core data center to the public cloud. By consolidating storage requirements and eliminating silos across multiple platforms — including Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift — IBM ESS can reduce inefficiency, lower acquisition costs, simplify storage management and support multiple demanding workloads, delivering high performance throughout your organization.

Microsoft Azure StorSimple meets the needs of performance- and capacity-centric applications, and gives you a complete hybrid cloud storage solution for enterprises. It’s the best of both worlds—physical arrays for deployments in datacenters and virtual arrays for smaller enterprise environments like remote and branch offices, which require network-attached storage (NAS). Its on-demand infrastructure means you don’t need to set up or maintain costly on-premises equipment for new or special projects. Also, by using local storage for performance, you have the flexibility to retain all volume data locally. Manage your data growth more effectively—StorSimple can automatically archive inactive primary data from on-premises to the cloud to create effortless capacity expansion. Remove the need for separate backup infrastructures with cloud snapshots that provide off-site data protection, and eliminate the need for remote replication of data to a secondary datacenter with cloud storage.

Red Hat® OpenShift® Data Foundation—previously Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage—is software-defined storage for containers. Engineered as the data and storage services platform for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation helps teams develop and deploy applications quickly and efficiently across clouds. Developers—even those with limited storage expertise—can provision storage directly from Red Hat OpenShift without switching to a separate user interface. Format data as files, blocks, or objects to support all kinds of workloads created by enterprise Kubernetes users. Our technical experts can work with you to find an approach that meets your storage needs for hybrid cloud and multicloud container deployments.

VaultFS, developed by Swiss Vault Global, is an advanced data archive solution designed to provide exceptional data robustness, scalability, and efficiency for long-term storage needs. By utilizing erasure coding, VaultFS divides data into fragments with redundant pieces, distributing them across various storage locations to ensure data can be reconstructed even if some fragments are lost or corrupted. This approach minimizes hardware overhead, reducing both initial investments and ongoing maintenance costs. VaultFS's peer-to-peer architecture eliminates single points of failure, and its auto-regeneration mechanisms automatically repair corrupted data, ensuring continuous availability. The system's dynamic configuration allows for seamless scalability by adding more disks or nodes without disrupting operations, making it a reliable and efficient choice for organizations seeking next-generation data storage solutions.

StorPool is a fully managed primary storage platform for businesses that host many mission-critical workloads in their own datacenters. We provide the easiest way to convert standard servers stacked with NVMe SSDs into high-performance, linearly scalable primary storage systems. Companies building their own public or private clouds use StorPool as a superior alternative to mid-range and high-end SANs and All-Flash Arrays (AFA). StorPool delivers above and beyond what is possible with other primary storage products in terms of reliability, agility, speed, and cost-effectiveness. It’s an excellent replacement for legacy storage architectures like mid- or high-end primary storage arrays and products that just use a software-defined approach to copy the base array, expansion shelf architecture. Exceptional performance, reliability and increased ROI from your cloud computing offering.

Stratoscale enables IT to operate as an internal cloud service provider, so that IT can offer single-click / on-demand consumption of resources and managed open source technologies, and respond at the speed of the public cloud. Stratoscale’s multi-cloud hybrid platform delivers true infrastructure-as-a-service, ideal for DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code automation. With single-panel monitoring and scaling of all resources and services as well as automation of the entire life cycle of open source technologies, IT can now shift focus to business specific innovation, governance and compliance. APIs are the best way to consume open-source technologies. But different cloud environments offer different sets of APIs which adds a significant layer of complexity and prevents DevOps professional from maximizing their potential. Stratoscale delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),Database-as- a-Service (DBaaS).

IntelliFlash systems from DDN and Tintri combine the performance and attractive economics for full-service intelligent storage infrastructure that autonomously optimizes SSD-to-HDD ratios and delivers scalable performance. A variety of time-saving management features provide outstanding support for enterprise applications. Consolidate workloads with concurrent multiprotocol support for block, file and object storage, and VMs on a single system. These systems also enhance cost-efficiency with data reduction technologies, near-instant backups and robust disaster protection, and powerful analytics software for faster data insights. Solutions such as DDN A³I addresses unstructured data management and the data-intensive nature of those applications. Call and transaction records, consumer behavior, and other structured data types also benefit from high performance and scalable architectures.