StorONE has launched what it claims is the primary storage platform to allow connectivity between customary mechanical onerous disk drives (HDD) and flash drives over NVMe-over Material (NVMe-oF) infrastructures, which it says can scale back the price of an NVMe resolution by tenfold or extra.
Storage arrays have historically been separated by drive make. You’ve got all-flash arrays and all-hard-disk arrays however not a mixture of the 2. Typical operation is to place “sizzling” knowledge, or knowledge that’s continuously accessed, on the a lot quicker SSDs, and put much less continuously accessed knowledge on the slower HDDs. That method requires two or extra separate arrays, plus the connection between them.
StorONE’s new Enterprise Storage Platform can hook up with the community through NVMe-oF and function the identical manner – continuously accessed knowledge on the SSDs, much less used knowledge on the HDDs. This implies enterprises can combine and match the drives in a single array. StorONE’s administration software program robotically shifts knowledge between the 2 drive sorts as wanted. So an enterprise can construct a extra inexpensive platform that delivers each the excessive IOPS from the SSDs and the inexpensive retention from the HDDs.
And excellent news for present StorONE clients – they’ll add the HDD over NVMe-oF functionality by means of a software program replace at no extra cost in the event that they’ve already deployed an NVMe-oF storage system.
“Our platform method to storage not solely means supporting all kinds of use instances but in addition new protocols, like NVMe-oF. On the similar time, we ensure that our clients can proceed to leverage their present funding, eliminating the necessity for expensive storage migrations,” mentioned Gal Naor, CEO of StorONE, in a press release.
StorONE’s Enterprise Storage Platform’s helps a reasonably broad array of protocols concurrently, together with iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, SMB, S3 and NVMe-oF.
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