Best Software-Defined Storage (SDS) - Page 2

GlusterFS is a scalable network filesystem suitable for data-intensive tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. GlusterFS is free and open source software and can utilize common off-the-shelf hardware. Gluster is a scalable, distributed file system that aggregates disk storage resources from multiple servers into a single global namespace. Enterprises can scale capacity, performance, and availability on demand, with no vendor lock-in, across on-premise, public cloud, and hybrid environments. Gluster is used in production at thousands of organisations spanning media, healthcare, government, education, web 2.0, and financial services. Scales to several petabytes, handles thousands of clients, POSIX compatible, uses commodity hardware, can use any ondisk filesystem that supports extended attributes, accessible using industry standard protocols like NFS and SMB, provides replication, quotas, geo-replication, snapshots and bitrot detection, and more.

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.

We help our customers achieve hyperscale efficiency and cost savings for their own private cloud or public cloud storage as a service offering. With our software-defined block storage solution, Lightbits, customers scale their business effortlessly, accelerate IT operations, and reduce cost – at the speed of local flash. Break the dependency between compute and storage to allocate resources independently to bring the flexibility and efficiency of the cloud on-premises. Deliver low latency and high performance while guaranteeing high availability for your distributed databases and cloud native applications such as SQL, NoSQL, and “in memory”. With the constant growth of data in the forever available data center, one of the critical challenges is that applications and services running at scale must stay stateful as they migrate around the data center in order to keep services available and efficient in the presence of constant failures.

Burlywood FlashOS™ is the industry’s first flash storage architecture that analyzes application behavior at the flash controller level, tunes SSD performance & features to be a perfect fit for the application, and delivers measurable benefits to the bottom line for customers deploying cloud storage, all-flash arrays, and hyper-converged solutions. Our purpose-built FlashOS™ controller technology enables the next generation SSDs for the data center. The first software-defined SSD solution for today’s complex cloud applications. Deep analysis and understanding of your storage environment. A unique, flexible software business model gives you control of the supply chain and costs. The only application-focused, adaptable solution for storage. Technical and strategic support during all phases of the lifecycle. Legacy storage can not keep pace with today’s complex cloud applications.

StoneFly StoneFusion™ transforms bare-metal to enterprise iSCSI SAN, NAS, S3 object storage, or a unified storage appliance with integrated ransomware protection, storage optimization, and monitoring data services. StoneFusion is also available in Azure, AWS, and StoneFly cloud.

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.

SwiftStack is a multi-cloud data storage and management platform for data-driven applications and workflows, seamlessly providing access to data across both private and public infrastructure. SwiftStack Storage is an on-premises, scale-out, and geographically distributed object and file storage product that starts from 10s of terabytes and expands to 100s of petabytes. Unlock your existing enterprise data and make it accessible to your modern cloud-native applications by connecting it into the SwiftStack platform. Avoid another major storage migration and use existing tier 1 storage for what it’s good for...not everything. With SwiftStack 1space, data is placed across multiple clouds, public and private, via operator-defined policies to get the application and users closer to the data. A single addressable namespace is created where data movement throughout the platform is transparent to the applications and users.

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).

Several key factors, both technological and commercial are creating demand for a new approach to high performance I/O. New non-volatile memory (NVM) device technologies are proliferating and media capacities are increasing rapidly. Diverse many-core processor strategies are pushing higher I/O volumes and more demanding I/O profiles. A new generation of high-business-value markets are taking advantage of analytics and machine learning and further stressing performance boundaries. Traditional file systems only crudely manage flash at scale whereas HDD performance degrades as concurrency increases. IME delivers predictable job performance, provides faster computation against data sets too large to fit in memory, accelerates I/O-intensive applications and provides a safe, cost and space-efficient landing space for bursty data.

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.