Software biz #Atlantis has announced a pint-size hyper-converged appliance for remote and branch offices.
Atlantis’ #HyperScale CX-4 software is a two-node design integrating compute, all-flash storage, networking and virtualisation.
It is available on Dell’s #PowerEdgeFX2 servers, which feature blade servers and integrated 10GbitE switching.
The idea is that ROBOs run what are micro-data centres, and integrated systems are better for them as they need less local management resources.
It’s not a new idea, but what is new is basing the ROBO system on a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA). Typically these are four node (server) systems.
Atlantis has cut that down the middle to produce a more affordable ROBO HCIA box set. Its product has 48 compute cores (FC630 Server with two Intel Xeon E5-2680v3 CPUs and 24 cores per node) and 4TB of effective storage capacity* inside a 2U enclosure**. That comes from either three 800GB SSDs or four of them.
It claims this product “provides the lowest entry point cost for any hyper-converged appliance.” There is “a simplified deployment process that pre-configures networking for each remote appliance to connect to [a] central Atlantis Manager virtual appliance.”
There are 4-node HyperScale CX-12 and CX-24 models which have 12TB and 24TB of effective capacity respectively. Atlantis launched these in May last year, using SuperMicro servers. Cisco, HP and Lenovo servers were also supported via an architecture reference design
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/14/robo_hcias_erupt_from_atlantis/
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