6 Software-Defined Storage Companies to Watch

While the traditional storage industry has been largely experiencing anemic growth, at a 2.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2021, there are pockets of the market that are seeing high growth and revenue. One such pocket is software-defined storage ( #SDS ). This segment is growing at a 13.5 percent CAGR through 2021, according to IDC. SDS is penetrating IT infrastructures to meet the needs of the next-generation datacenter. As companies transform their businesses and move operations to the cloud, they are adopting SDS for greater agility, reduced costs, and greater operational efficiency.

IDC defines SDS using the following criteria, “storage software that runs on commodity hardware, does not require any proprietary hardware components like custom ASICs [application-specific integrated circuit chips], and is a standalone storage system.”

Companies are abandoning traditional hardware-defined storage designs for software-defined storage models. “The legacy systems have improved their software to make them easier to use, borrowing some of the ideas of SDS,” said Eric Burgener, IDC research vice president of enterprise storage. “But they will generally always be more complex to manage, and certainly more expensive to buy and maintain.”

SDS is a subset of the larger storage market, and it can be split into four segments: block, file, object, and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), according to IDC. It’s worth noting that Gartner segments this differently into two categories: infrastructure (which would include block, file, object, and hyperconverged) and management (which coordinates the delivery of storage services).

VMware was one of the first companies to support this newer storage model with its software-defined data center and vSAN technology. But as the SDS market continues to grow, there are more companies coming forward with SDS innovations. We’ve identified six SDS companies that we believe are worth watching as this market continues to experience growth.

Cloudian

Cloudian set out to bring object storage to the enterprise. The company launched in 2011 with its flagship product, HyperStorage, a hybrid cloud storage platform.

It has recently updated the platform to include on-premises data centers and multiple public clouds, and it acquired SDS file storage company Infinity Storage. The founder of Infinity invented the write-once-read-many (WORM) file system that most SDS platforms use, including Cloudian. Prior to the acquisition, the two companies launched HyperFile, which used Infinity’s file storage software built into Cloudian’s storage platform.

The platform is widely seen as a way to consolidate data storage into a managed environment, while maintaining cloud-like object storage without obstructing the data.

Founders: Hiroshi Ohta and Michael Tso
Total Funding: $104.1 million (Digital Alpha Advisors, Lenovo, Epsilon Venture Partners, Intel Capital, DVP Investment, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, City National Bank, Eight Roads Ventures, Goldman Sachs)

Cohesity

Cohesity was started in 2013 by Mohit Aron who previously co-founded Nutanix. The hyperconverged secondary storage company has been growing rapidly, and it saw a 600 percent increase in sales revenue over the previous year in 2017.

The company’s data storage platform, Orion, seeks to eliminate secondary storage silos by consolidating an enterprises on-premises and cloud-based secondary storage silos onto a centralized, hyperconverged platform.

Last year, Cohesity updated the platform to combine data protection and scalable file and object storage. The update enabled enterprises to also use Orion as a backup system and a searchable archive for large amounts of structured and unstructured data.

Founder: Mohit Aron
Total Funding: $160 million (Battery Ventures, Foundation Capital, Hewlett Packard Ventures, Accel Partners, Artis Ventures, GV, Cisco Investments, Qualcomm Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Wing Venture Capital, DHVC, Trinity Ventures, InstantScale Capital)

Datrium

Datrium was founded in 2012 by Data Domain and VMware veterans to create a slightly different model for storage than HCI infrastructure players. It provides open converged infrastructure for hybrid clouds in a way that doesn’t require the overhead of HCI. It does, however, integrate some features of HCI such as scale-out backup, cloud-based disaster recovery, and the ability to scale automatically to overcome bottleneck problems.

When Datrium launched, up until last year, it only had support for VMware servers and virtual machines (VMs), but it added storage support for open source platforms and Linux containers and Docker persistent volumes. This update enables enterprises to manage multiple environments from a single source. The company also enhanced its private cloud infrastructure platform with new scaling functions.

Founders: Boris Weissman, Brian Biles, Ganesh Venkitachalam, Hugo Patterson, and Sazzala Reddy
Total Funding: $110 million (New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Ventures)

Portworx

Portworx is a growing container storage company, which is packaged as a container itself. The company, founded in 2014, seeks to provide container-native storage and enable container use for DevOps and production environments.

Its cloud native data management platform provides automated data services, including data persistence and security, and it saves and stores container data. It can run on any infrastructure using a container, including Kubernetes, Mesosphere DC/OS, and Docker Swarm.

Portworx recently launched an open source stateful storage project, STORK, a storage orchestrator runtime for Kubernetes. The project allows DevOps teams to run stateful applications on Kubernetes and offer storage health monitoring.

Mesosphere recently became a reseller of Portworx’s products, combining Mesosphere’s automated compute service with Portworx’ automated storage platform.

Founders: Goutham Rao, Murli Thirumale, and Vinod Jayaraman
Total Funding: $28.5 million (Mayfield Fund, Sapphire Ventures, GE Ventures, Michael Dell)

Rubrik

Rubrik provides automated data backup, recovery, search, cloud, and development services across cloud and on-premises environments. The company launchedthe ninth release of its data management platform, Alta, in June 2017 with additional support for a number of physical and virtual environments.

In February, Rubrik acquired NoSQL data backup company, Datos IO. This acquisition is meant to help its enterprise customers undertake digital transformations and AI initiatives. In April, the company released a software-as-a-service platform, Polaris, for data management applications.

While Rubrik and Cohesity are competitors in this market, Rubrik disagrees on the use of the term “hyperconverged secondary storage,” deeming it a marketing term and preferring “cloud data management.”

Like Cohesity, it has seen enormous growth in the past few years as the market explodes. Rubrik was named as an alternative acquisition target for VMware by a VMware investor.

Founders: Arvind Jain, Arvind Nithrakashyap, Bipul Sinha, and Soham Mazumdar
Total Funding: $292 million (Kevin Durant, Greylock Partners, IVP, Lightspeed Ventures, Khosla Ventures)

SoftNas

SoftNas launched its first product, Cloud NAS, in 2013. Its goal was to fill a gap in terms of cloud native services by giving a native storage experience in a cloud environment, according to Arun Chandrasekaran, VP and distinguished analyst for Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure at Gartner.

Last year, the company released a new version of Cloud NAS and three additional products as it rebranded itself as a hybrid cloud platform provider.

CloudNAS works as an alternative to hardware-based storage, on-premises network attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), and file servers. It replaces these with cloud object storage, which can be more easily scaled to accommodate enterprise needs.

The three products it launched as part of its makeover are set to make it faster and easier to migrate applications to the cloud while providing backup and recovery.

Founders: Rick Braddy and William Hood
Total Funding: $6.4 million (angel investors)

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Datrium Releases DVX 4.0 Software, Converging Tier 1, Backup & Cloud

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 4, 2018 /@PRNewswire/ -- @Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConverged Infrastructure for #hybridcloud, announced the shipment of #DVX 4.0 Software, the third major software release in less than a year. The new software release extends Datrium DVX Tier 1 capabilities with support for @Oracle RAC, greater VM fault tolerance, and improved data and administrative security. DVX 4.0 also includes Cloud DVX, a #SaaS-based VM backup and recovery service, a free one year trial cloud backup subscription, and a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee. Datrium DVX converges Tier 1 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with scale-out backup and cloud disaster recovery (DR).  DVX enables up to 10 times more VMs to run at lower latency than HCI, enables 10 times faster VM restores than scale-out backup products, and with Cloud DVX, offers backup to cloud with up to 10 times lower AWS fees than many cloud backup providers, all in the same simple converged system.

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Datrium DVX 3.0 Wins 2017 Product of the Year in Storage Magazine and SearchStorage's Awards

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --  @Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConverged Infrastructure for #hybridcloud s, announced today that it is the Gold medal winner and 2017 Product of the Year, as awarded by editors of @TechTarget 's Storage Media Group. The company beat a distinguished group of 14 finalists in this highly contested category. "This is awesome validation by a talented panel of 15 judges on a choice already made by hundreds of our customers," said Craig Nunes, VP of Marketing at Datrium. ''Datrium DVX is really three breakthrough products in one -- a tier 1 HCI system, an HCI backup system and a cloud data management platform. It's no surprise that customers have chosen Datrium 2 out of 3 times versus traditional HCI." The judges, comprised of editorial staff in conjunction with a high calibre team of end users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants, were impressed with Datrium's unique architecture, prompting one to describe it as "An innovative architecture that has clear advantages relative to both shared storage arrays and hyper-converged infrastructure."   The gold medal award comes at a time when the company is experiencing accelerating business growth on the back of record customer adoption numbers in 2017, fueled by its product innovations, strategic partnerships, and growing frustration among enterprise users with the limitations inherent in traditional HCI.  

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Datrium Announces Record Customer Adoption of Open Convergence

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --  @Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConverged Infrastructure for #hybrid #clouds, announced today that business growth is accelerating as a record number of customers adopt its new breed of convergence. Product innovation and strategic partnerships, together with a growing number of enterprises that have experienced firsthand the limitations of #hyperconverged infrastructure ( #HCI), were largely responsible for the accelerating customer interest and adoption experienced throughout 2017. Significant Customer Adoption Continues With more than 300 DVX deployments in seven quarters, Datrium customers now include large enterprises like global technology powerhouse Siemens, a global consumer products company, and one of the world's leading entertainment service companies, as well as popular consumer brands like Oberto and Osprey Packs. Adoption has been strong across all industry sectors including financial services, healthcare, public sector, and service providers. Revenue also grew many times that of 2016, and included petabyte-size deployments, multiple DR installations and repeat purchases from existing Datrium customers. "We considered all-flash arrays and hyperconverged systems, but nothing compared to Datrium, which gave us the best of both without the drawbacks," said Bryan Bond, Director of Infrastructure at Siemens Corporation. "We spend zero time managing storage, our database performance is off the charts, and backup is built right in so we get data protection without the headache of dedicated backup devices." Record Product Innovation Fueled by one of the four largest financing events in 2016, Datrium maintained a blistering pace of product releases in 2017. The company became the first to introduce several innovative technologies for server-powered converged infrastructure, including: Convergence of primary and backup storage into a single unified system, including a scalable and searchable backup-class catalog, granular VM and vDisk level backup and replication, and in-flight and at-rest data encryption with full data reduction. Split Provisioning software that mirrors modern hyperscale architectures to deliver petabyte-scale, massive performance, and fully independent scaling of capacity and I/O processing. Cloud DVX, a cloud-native instance of Datrium DVX that offers recovery services for VMs and stateful containers running in DVX on-premises, and includes global cloud deduplication – a killer app for any public cloud-based deployment. Strategic Partnerships Datrium has also seen tremendous growth in both go-to-market and ecosystem partnerships. The Datrium channel has grown to 200 authorized partners, including a silver level relationship with CDW. New ecosystem partnerships have spiked to 30 from six just two quarters ago, and now include: New platform relationships with Arista, Docker, Intel, Mellanox, nVidia, and RedHat. New guest OS relationships with CentOS, RedHat and Suse. New application relationships with Amazon Web Services, Citrix, Cloudera, Kroll Ontrack, Oracle, SAP and Splunk. The combination of technology advancements and strategic partnerships have resulted in 2 out of 3 customers selecting Datrium DVX and Open Convergence over Nutanix HCI.  A desire to avoid HCI cluster sprawl, while achieving high performance for large data sets, affordable double-failure protection, and the ability to integrate with existing server infrastructures were some of the reasons customers cited for choosing Datrium over Nutanix. Market Expansion Stimulated by strong customer demand and competitive success, Datrium is moreover announcing the doubling of its sales and solution architect staff across the U.S., and is opening Datrium subsidiaries to serve both Canada and Japan. The new Datrium subsidiaries are partnering with value-added solution providers to deliver Datrium DVX products to their respective markets. In addition to business development, sales and marketing, both subsidiaries provide local technical support and services. New Executive Talent Important additions to Datrium's executive staff were made throughout the year. Mike Park was appointed as VP of Operations, and Andre Leibovici, who left Nutanix in May, was appointed as VP of Solutions and Alliances. In addition, Datrium added a new member to its board of directors, Dave Schneider who is currently the Chief Revenue Officer at ServiceNow. "It has been a phenomenal year for Datrium and our customers," said Brian Biles, Datrium CEO and co-founder. "Our tremendous customer adoption and revenue growth has also attracted leading IT companies like Oracle, Red Hat, and Citrix to partner with Datrium. We look forward to helping more companies benefit from open converged infrastructure in 2018."

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Datrium Recognized on 2017 Emerging Vendors List

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConvergedInfrastructure for hybrid clouds, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named the company to its 2017 Emerging Vendors list in the Storage category. This list recognizes recently founded, up-and-coming technology suppliers that are shaping the future of the IT channel through unique technological innovations. In addition to celebrating these standout companies, the Emerging Vendors list serves as a valuable resource for solution providers looking to expand their portfolios with cutting-edge technology. This year, for the first time, the list is divided into seven categories: Cloud, Data Center, Security, Big Data, Networking/VoIP, Internet of Things and Storage. Datrium delivers a new breed of tier 1 converged infrastructure with consumer-grade simplicity by combining compute, primary and secondary storage, and cloud backup into a single platform.  Datrium DVX extends beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to address both mission critical, low latency workloads as well as backup and cloud data management for hybrid clouds. Last week at AWS re:Invent, the company unveiled Datrium Cloud DVX, a cloud-native instance of Datrium DVX that runs on AWS, providing backup and recovery services for on-premise Datrium DVX systems. Beyond as-a-service simplicity, the new offering delivers breakthrough global cloud deduplication and forever incremental backups to minimize the cost of capacity and network bandwidth.  Granular, dedupe-aware recovery also provides accelerated Recovery-Time-Objectives (RTO) versus other AWS S3-based offerings. "This impressive group of technology supplier startups is already disrupting the status quo, aggressively creating and innovating to meet the ever-changing demands of the IT market," said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. "CRN's 2017 Emerging Vendors represent the next generation of IT change agents, producing a wide range of leading-edge products that solution providers should keep an eye on in the coming year and beyond." "This year, our goal was to ship the world's simplest tier 1, petabyte-scale infrastructure converging VM and container-based servers, primary and secondary storage as well as integrated cloud backup," said Brian Biles, Datrium CEO and co-Founder. "That we achieved this is undeniable and corroborated by Q3 sales that were four times those of our Q1 sales. Contributing to this success was the record addition of new capabilities in 2017 that make DVX virtually config-free on-prem and in the cloud. We are honored to be included on CRN's 2017 Emerging Vendors List and gratified with this acknowledgement of the pivotal role Datrium is playing in defining the next generation of convergence."

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Datrium Announces Cloud DVX for Amazon Web Services

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConvergedInfrastructure for #hybridclouds, today announced @Datrium #Cloud #DVX, a cloud-native instance of Datrium DVX that offers recovery services for VMs running in DVX on-premises. Cloud DVX includes global cloud deduplication and provides the simplest and most efficient approach to VM and vDisk level backup and recovery available within a converged or hyperconverged infrastructure system offering.  Adoption of the public cloud for offsite backup and recovery has been a challenge because the size of backup data, the need for regular full backups, and the lack of adequate data reduction limits the economic and practical viability of doing so.   According to Gartner1, "Deduplication is the key to reducing cloud storage costs, but most backup software's cloud connectors do not support deduplication, and other choices are limited to a few cloud gateways and emerging integrated backup appliances with native cloud gateway function." The report goes on to state, "Deduplication backup target appliances don't support cloud storage as another tier without running a virtual edition in the cloud, which would incur additional cloud compute costs and more-expensive associated storage." Cloud DVX is a port of the DVX software to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and is a natural architectural fit. The first service available on Cloud DVX is a SaaS-based utility that runs on AWS, providing VM and vDisk backup and recovery for on-premise Datrium DVX systems.  Beyond as-a-service simplicity, the new service offering delivers breakthrough global cloud deduplication and forever incremental backups to minimize the cost of capacity and network bandwidth.  Granular, dedupe-aware recovery also provides accelerated Recovery-Time-Objectives (RTO) versus other AWS S3-based offerings. Simple Service Sidesteps AWS Learning Curve Datrium Cloud DVX eliminates the need to learn and setup AWS, deal with EC2 service outages, and manually handle software upgrades. The recovery service provides a simple one-click setup with AWS, then provides backup instance storage and recovery as a SaaS-based offering. As a part of the service, Datrium manages service availability. The service also includes automated software upgrades as well as proactive support related to AWS resources. Because Datrium Cloud DVX provides direct-to-host restore, the management (and cost) of an additional on-premises backup or cloud gateway device is eliminated, further simplifying public cloud backup and recovery. Cloud Economics Depend on Global Cloud Deduplication and Forever-Incrementals Cloud DVX provides global cloud deduplication for AWS S3 across multiple protection groups, multiple on-premises DVX systems, and even across multiple sites. In addition, because Cloud DVX supports forever-incremental backups, no additional full backups are required after initial seeding. The differential, dedupe-aware snapshot backup service means that customers maintain full data efficiency both on-the-wire and at-rest. In addition, because this service supports end-to-end encryption, there is no need to add a separate VPN and related AWS charges. This massive focus on data and network efficiency means that AWS resources are 65% lower2 and 91% lower versus the S3-based products from hyperconverged and hyperconverged backup vendors, respectively. "As a financial services company, we need to retain data for up to 25-30 years for parts of our business and have been reliant upon tape to do so," said Daryl Dressler, Infrastructure Engineer for Intuition LLC. "In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, we needed to recover from tape held at Iron Mountain. However tape deliveries are best effort and with all the flooding that had occurred, the delivery trucks were unable to reach our data center for days. With the dedupe-aware efficiency of Datrium Cloud Backup for AWS, we can cost-effectively deploy it as a tape replacement and significantly reduce recovery time in these situations." Fast RTO Depends on Dedupe-Aware Data Retrieval and Direct-to-Host Restore The combination of dedupe on-the-wire with granular recovery of an individual vDisk, significantly improves recovery time. As an example, recovering a 100GB vDisk in the cloud may require retrieval of just a few gigabytes of data and just seconds, thanks to duplicate data in the local DVX. Because of the global on-premises and cloud deduplication capabilities of DVX, Cloud DVX provides an RTO more than 2X faster than Nutanix Cloud Connect.  In addition, RTO benefits from direct-to-host restore.  With independent backup products, data must first be restored to the backup system, fully rehydrated, and incremental backups replayed, before it is copied to the primary system. Because DVX combines Tier 1 application consolidation with built-in data protection offering direct-to-host restore, Cloud DVX delivers 2X faster RTO compared to HCI Backup vendors. "I was looking for a cost-effective approach to offsite data protection for our research data," said Jeff Cunningham, Director of Information Systems at the Agricultural and Resource Economics (AREC) department at the University of Maryland. "Datrium Cloud Backup was so simple to use, but I was interested in profiling the restore speed over our network. When I performed recovery testing, I was blown away – it was virtually instantaneous because Datrium took advantage of the fact that most of the VM data being recovered was already on my local system." "Cloud should be the new Iron Mountain, but it's not. Most cloud backup approaches are still complex, expensive and slow," said Brian Biles, CEO and Founder of Datrium.  "Datrium's Cloud DVX recovery service is the first approach that really addresses these issues.." Pricing and Availability U.S. list pricing for the Datrium Cloud DVX recovery service is $6,000 per 5 TB per year, and is available within 60 days. 1Gartner: Is Cloud Storage the New Tape? Pushan Rinnen, Refreshed: 6 January 2017 | Published: 21 March 2016 2Based on daily snapshots of 40 terabytes of data with a 2% per day change rate over a 1 year period.  AWS resources for Datrium were calculated to be $15.5K versus $44.5K and $179K for S3-based HCI and HCI Backup, respectively.

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Datrium storage system injects flash into the equation

The new @Datrium hardware includes the all-flash #F12X2 Data Node and @Intel #Skylake -based #CN2100 #ComputeNodes that support nonvolatile memory express ( #NVMe ) flash. Datrium said an all-flash F2X12 cluster scales to 500 TB of effective capacity with #DVX inline compression. Datrium also unveiled the next generation of its disk-based Data Nodes. The D12X4B storage nodes can be clustered for up to 1 PB of effective capacity. CN2100 servers work with both flash and disk Data Nodes. Datrium launched in 2015 with DVX software-defined storage for server-side flash. Datrium strips out durable storage from compute nodes, but keeps data services in the server. The Datrium Compute node captures a write in host-based flash and mirrors a copy to nonvolatile RAM in Datrium Data Nodes. Each DVX host in a cluster can access shared storage on DVX Data Nodes. The system has always captured writes in flash, but the earlier Datrium DVX nodes used only disk for storage. Craig Nunes, Datrium's vice president of marketing, said the new models extend flash to backup and secondary storage. Those workloads traditionally are associated with spinning disk. "We've talked to a number of customers that are very interested in shifting their data centers to an all-flash infrastructure. People are already moving down that path from a primary storage perspective, but we've talked to folks who want to move anything stored locally to flash. Then they [plan to] replicate to disk or cloud for long-term retention," Nunes said.

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Datrium Unveils Next Generation DVX With Flash End-To-End For Tier 1 Apps

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- @Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConvergedInfrastructure for #hybridclouds, today announced its next generation #DVX system with Flash End-to-End ( #E2E ), along with additional availability features for tier 1 apps. While DVX was already nearly four times faster than all-flash arrays1, Flash E2E takes automatic #virtualmachine (VM) and #container performance to ludicrously high levels, offering four times higher write throughput per TB while still enabling rich data management across snap replicas on flash, disk or cloud.  The company also announced the highest benchmark result in the history of IOMark with support of 8,000 IOMark-VMs, five times greater than the next closest result and 10 times greater than the highest hyperconverged result. According to Gartner, "A private cloud built atop an HCIS (HyperConverged Infrastructure System) will either be smaller in total or made up of many independent clusters of nodes. The former option is highly limiting, and the latter is cumbersome to manage."2 Unlike Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Datrium DVX is Open Converged.  Customers can run mixed workloads effortlessly at scale as well as avoid both storage and hyperconverged cluster management entirely, since Open Convergence keeps flash-rich hosts stateless and performance-isolated. There is no need for users to manage QoS throttling utilities, because high performance is predictable and automatic. Open Convergence also eliminates the need for customers to purchase and manage separate backup silos because powerful VM data management is built-in, and data reduction efficiency is always on. Extending Virtual Server Uptime DVX with Flash E2E improves host and VM uptime. In the case of any SSD failure on a host, customer VMs will continue to run with performance similar to that of an all flash array, with random reads served from the persistent flash data pool. In the event of a complete local flash failure across multiple hosts, VMs continue to run unaffected with new DVX Peer Cache. This new software boosts host flash failure protection by leveraging a neighbor host's flash for read speed without restarting VMs using VM HA.  In addition, Datrium has certified DVX for use with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) as a separate vehicle for continuous VM operation in the event of complete host failure. 10X Higher VM Performance Than Hyperconvergence Datrium DVX has always been ideally suited for performance-intensive workloads by leveraging local host CPU and flash for the fastest possible read IO, isolated from the workloads of other hosts. DVX with Flash E2E takes write performance to the next level for deployments such as multi-thousand seat VDI, real-time analytics and IoT. In a recent IOMark benchmark, DVX with Flash E2E shattered the previous record by five times and the highest hyperconverged result by 10 times, posting a record-breaking 8,000 IOMark-VMs. System-wide read performance is 200 GB/s bandwidth and 18 million input/output operations per second (IOPS), while system-wide write performance is 8 GB/s for a disk-based data pool and 16 GB/s for Flash E2E. "Evaluator Group has performed hands on testing of many different storage and hyperconverged systems, and we were excited to see the new record IOmark-VM results that Datrium has achieved," said Russ Fellows, Evaluator Group Senior Partner and Analyst.  "These levels of performance and scalability enable customers to run thousands of virtual machines in a single Datrium hybrid cloud, scaling well beyond levels achieved by hyperconverged configurations." Data Management Retention Across Media Types Open Convergence is fundamentally different from Hyperconvergence because it combines the fastest application performance, the best price-performance for backup and replication, and built-in VM- or container-centric policy and catalog tools. Datrium DVX can now store snaps economically with dedupe, compression, always-on wide erasure coding and encryption, across data pools on flash, disk or cloud. This frees customers to make the best price/recovery ROI decision for VM placement and retention policy by site, without having to involve multiple third-party, secondary storage solutions and management frameworks. In addition, if a user chooses to store their long-term snaps on disk with DVX, performance is still many times that of an all-flash array. "Datrium DVX is the world's simplest infrastructure for scaling VMs and containers, and with Flash E2E, it's ready for Tier 1 apps," said Brian Biles, CEO and co-founder at Datrium. "This is the last convergence choice you'll ever need to make." Pricing, Configuration and Availability DVX F12X2 Data Nodes (all flash) offer up to 83 TB of effective capacity, based on always-on wide erasure coding (2FT), global deduplication and compression. Up to 10 flash Data Nodes can be pooled in a single DVX for up to 830 TB. US list pricing for DVX D12X4B (disk-based) and F12X2 Data Nodes are $94K and $186K, respectively, and are available immediately. DVX CN2100 Compute Nodes have been refreshed with Skylake processors and NVMe flash drives. Pricing starts at $17.5K US list price and are available immediately. All Datrium nodes now support a 25 Gb Ethernet option for additional performance. Peer Cache software is included in with DVX software at no additional charge.

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Datrium Announces Oracle Partnership And Oracle RAC Qualification

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConverged Infrastructure for hybrid clouds, today announced it has been named an #Oracle Gold Partner. The company also announced qualification of Oracle Real Application Clusters ( #RAC ) on Datrium #DVX, extending the administrative simplicity, robust availability and integrated backup benefits of its Open Convergence approach to customer's Oracle RAC deployments.  As IT organizations seek alternatives to expensive and inflexible array infrastructure for mission critical Oracle RAC deployments, they encounter three main challenges with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). When organizations need to roll out a small 2-node RAC deployment, HCI cannot offer a 2-node cluster. In order to provide the highest level of availability, the minimum cluster size for HCI is 5-nodes, which is subject to more than twice the Oracle licensing costs. There is also an availability mismatch between HCI and Oracle RAC. For example, RAC's built-in availability architecture ensures that a 4-node RAC deployment will continue to run even if three of the four nodes fail; whereas with HCI, should more than 2 nodes fail, the entire cluster fails. Finally, many HCI systems do not have the built-in copy data management to clone production databases for test/dev purposes with zero performance impact. Simplifying Oracle RAC Deployments That's all changing with Datrium's announced support for virtualizing Oracle RAC on its industry-leading Open Convergence platform, Datrium DVX. This new breed of converged infrastructure combines compute, flash-based primary storage, and integrated backup--now with support for Oracle RAC. With Datrium, customers can deploy mixed production application workloads and test/development workloads in one platform while maintaining isolation for optimal service levels. This unique approach to convergence addresses issues with Oracle RAC on HCI and gives customers a more compatible server-powered option for their deployments. "At Neovera, we have built our reputation on addressing the unique needs of our customers with unmatched customer service. We were looking to move off our legacy array infrastructure to a modern convergence solution for our Oracle RAC infrastructure that combined VM-level administration with robust availability and bare-metal performance," said Scott Weinberg, CEO and founder. "With Datrium, we got that and more, including end-to-end data security and an integrated backup platform which saves us a ton of time and money." With Datrium's support of Oracle RAC, scaling is configuration-free. Data services such as erasure coding, global deduplication and compression are always-on and there is no need to selectively configure performance versus efficiency for a given workload—with Datrium you get both. Adding another Oracle RAC node is as simple as cloning a virtual machine in VMware vCenter. And performance remains high with automatic alignment of I/O with the most active Oracle RAC node and VMware host, eliminating network reads and maintaining high performance. Robust Availability, Data Integrity and Security With Datrium DVX, servers remain stateless so where there are N servers, N-1 servers can fail and the DVX remains available. This is well-matched with Oracle RAC which is architected with the same availability model. In addition to high availability, Datrium DVX provides end-to-end data integrity checking for Oracle RAC, meaning the data written to the RAC node will always match the data written to both flash and secondary storage. Finally, DVX provides end-to-end data security by encrypting Oracle RAC data on host, in-flight across the network, and at rest on the DVX Data Node. Datrium DVX also provides Oracle RAC customers with powerful real-time VM analytics, providing instant insights at the database VM level, improving visibility, saving time and speeding results. Integrated Data Management for Oracle RAC Datrium DVX provides near instant recovery for Oracle RAC by providing consistent local and remote snapshot backups of RAC VMs across all VMware hosts, complimenting Oracle RMAN and Data Guard. Backups are cost effectively maintained on Datrium's Data Nodes, which store both hot and cold data in compressed and globally deduplicated form on secondary storage. Backups can also be archived to Amazon Web Services and managed from a single pane of glass within the DVX console. In addition to integrated backup, Datrium also accelerates development cycles for Oracle RAC developers with advanced copy data management functionality. Cloned copies of production databases are immediately available to software developers or QA engineers, speeding design, development and testing. "While HCI clusters are replacing some types of arrays, they are not a good match for the gold standard in enterprise data availability, Oracle RAC," said Brian Biles, Founder and CEO of Datrium. "Datrium's Open Convergence approach was designed for scalable host isolation and efficient cloud data management, so RAC is a great fit, and we're thrilled to be named an Oracle Gold Partner." Oracle Gold Partner Status Datrium has been awarded Oracle Gold Partner status, gaining access to extensive partner training, development and demonstration licenses, and other technical resources. With its Gold-level status, Datrium and Oracle can now collaborate effectively to provide joint customers with the best possible solution experience.
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Datrium-Announces-Oracle-Partnership-And-Oracle-RAC-Qualification-1002571979

What’s behind this new storage solution for the hyperconverged world?

Sometimes it’s really easy to have too much of good thing. In a hyperconverged, scaled-out backup system, there can be numerous motherboards, multiple persistence drives and hardware duplicates as far as the eye can see. That’s why @BrianBiles (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of #DatriumInc., looked for a storage solution that could bring order to the chaos, and in doing so he created something no one had quite seen before. “We stripped it down so it’s way more cost efficient and, as it turns out, way more scalable,” Biles said. “We’re able to combine compute, primary and secondary storage in one scalable infrastructure. That’s never been done our way before.” Biles told his story during a visit to theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio, and spoke with co-hosts John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante) at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed the origin of Datrium’s technology solution and the company’s recent moves to support open-source platforms. (* Disclosure below.) Before creating Datrium, Biles led Data Domain, a company that produced deduplication storage systems. And, he worked on backup recovery systems while at EMC. But as the hyperconvergence movement began to emerge in 2012, it became apparent that the IT industry was struggling with the limits of storage technology, Biles explained. Solution to primary storage problem “Doing a storage system that was good for [backup] on either disk or flash was something we knew how to do,” Biles said. “But the people who were purely doing that couldn’t figure out how to get it to work for primary storage.” Datrium’s founders put together a different kind of framework, one that used host with flash as a primary store and a secondary set of chassis with hard drives for data persistence. “We can be as competitive as any data protection architecture, as well as being faster than the fastest all-flash array,” Biles stated. #Datrium has recently branched out of the #VMware space to provide storage support on open-source platforms such as #RedHatEnterprise #Linux servers. The company’s technology also lets customers do container-level snapshots and then clone them immediately to another host. “We’re kind of a data management company that also lets you go fast,” Biles said.

https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/09/07/whats-behind-new-storage-solution-hyperconverged-world-vmworld/

Datrium Announces Split Provisioning For Simple Private Cloud Consolidation At Rackscale

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConvergedInfrastructure for private clouds, today announced Datrium #DVX 3.0 with Split Provisioning, a fundamentally new and different method of scaling converged infrastructure for private clouds. DVX with #SplitProvisioning is the industry's first server-powered converged infrastructure system to fully separate scaling of host storage speed and persistent capacity to simply and incrementally match resources to evolving tenant requirements. The new software provides scaling from 1-128 Compute Nodes, or up to 200 gigabytes per second (GB/s) IO bandwidth, and from 1-10 Data Nodes, or up to 1.7 petabytes (PB) of capacity, in a single composable pool. Datrium will demonstrate its DVX platform with Split Provisioning at the VMWorld conference in Las Vegas, Aug. 27-31, booth #618.  Unlike Open Converged Infrastructure, Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) approaches maintain persistent data on every server and are limited to 2 or 3 simultaneous server failures before users experience a data outage. As a result, HCI users tend toward smaller clusters, across which servers and workloads should be homogeneous. According to Gartner, "in today's world, most hyperconverged deployments are in the range of 8 to 16 nodes,"1 so rackscale deployments need multiple clusters, each of which needs configuration and administration. Gartner has concluded that "…many mainstream enterprise IT directors do not yet trust SDS in HCIS solutions to deliver multipetabyte capacity at scale for Tier 1 mixed workloads that require low latency."2 10X Greater Consolidation With Split Provisioning, Datrium DVX scales compute with both primary and secondary storage resources in a radically new way. Compute Nodes run all workloads in local commodity flash for high performance and low latency. Each Compute Node writes persistent data to network-attached, capacity-optimized Data Nodes, which are similar to purpose-built backup appliances optimized for cost efficiency and sequential IO. Because Compute Nodes are stateless, any number of them can go down for service without affecting data availability. Until now, Datrium DVX supported a single Data Node. With DVX 3.0 and Split Provisioning, a single Datrium DVX can pool multiple Data Nodes, each of which adds capacity and write bandwidth. While the minimum DVX configuration is one compute node and one data node, Split Provisioning allows scalability up to 128 compute nodes and 10 data nodes in a single system. Adding a Data Node to a pool is a one-command operation, after which the system automatically and non-disruptively rebalances capacity. System-wide performance and capacity increases up to: 200 GB/s read bandwidth and 18 million input/output operations per second3 (IOPS), an order of magnitude higher than market-leading all flash arrays4, ideal for read intensive applications like Microsoft SQL Server or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) boot storms; 8 GB/s write throughput, ideal for write-intensive applications such as ingest operations for big data analytics or data warehousing; 1.7 PB of effective capacity. "At Parametric, we provide engineered portfolio solutions to institutional investors and private clients built on quantitative, rules-based analysis. Our largest private cloud environment has grown 200-300 percent over the last year, and have received requests for 80 to 100 terabytes for a single project," said Ben Garforth, Parametric Portfolio Systems Engineering Manager. "With Datrium and Split Provisioning, I can now handle our massive data growth cost effectively and non-disruptively within a single resource pool. And better still, I don't need to manage a thing—I check in on the Datrium solution once a month and that's about it." "Datrium's premise has always been that their 'open convergence' method delivers better overall scalability, along with independent scalability of performance and capacity, compared to hyperconverged architectures – in essence, private clouds with virtually limitless performance and scale with the ease of public clouds," said Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst of Taneja Group. "Split Provisioning delivers further proof point for their claim. With the pace of innovation coming from Datrium, I can't wait to see what comes next." Converging Compute with Primary and Secondary Storage Datrium DVX converges compute with both primary and secondary storage, and Split Provisioning takes this to an entirely new scale. Compute Nodes write data to low cost, disk-based Data Nodes with always-on global deduplication, inline compression, erasure coding and Blanket Encryption. Data Cloud, Datrium's built-in cloud data management software, can now manage up to 1.2 million snapshots per DVX, replicable to other DVX's or to Amazon Web Services. For additional data protection, DVX 3.0 now offers application-consistent snapshots for Microsoft Windows-based applications such as MS SQL Server. Datrium Volume Shadow Service Provider leverages instantaneous and scalable DVX Snapshots, eliminating VM stuns and related sluggish application performance for large data sets. "As specialty appliances decline, the future of private clouds will look like DVX," said Brian Biles, Datrium CEO and Co-founder. "Split Provisioning enables an order of magnitude more application bandwidth than most all-flash arrays, much simpler rackscale consolidation than HCI, and better secondary storage than either. This is tomorrow calling." [SPEC SHEET] Datrium DVX Specification Sheet [DATA SHEET] Datrium DVX Data Sheet [WHITEPAPER] Split Provisioning Technical Whitepaper [BLOG] And The Third Shoe Drops Pricing and Availability Split Provisioning software is available immediately with Datrium DVX Software 3.0 at US list pricing of $12,000 per Compute Node. 1Gartner: Key Differences Between Nutanix, VxRail and SimpliVity HCIS Appliances | 26 April 2017 2Gartner: Beware the 'Myth-Conceptions' Surrounding Hyperconverged Integrated Systems | 18 February 2016 refreshed 02 June 2017 3Performance based on Datrium Lab Testing. Bandwidth measured with 64K IO size 100% Read. IOPS measured with 4K IO size, 100% Read | July 2017 4From XtremIO specifications sheet Industry Recognition Gartner, Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2016, April 2016 - A Cool Vendor Gartner Disclaimer Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Datrium Datrium is the leader in Open Converged Infrastructure for private clouds. Datrium converges storage and compute across primary application and data management workloads—modeled on public cloud IaaS versus traditional converged infrastructure or hyper-convergence—for vastly simpler performance, predictability and protection. The company is led by the founders and early top architects of Data Domain and VMware. For more information, visit www.datrium.com and follow @datrium on Twitter.

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Datrium-Announces-Split-Provisioning-For-Simple-Private-Cloud-Consolidation-At-Rackscale-1002258622

Disaggregating network, compute and storage allocation demystified

Enter #disaggregation. Separating an aggregate into its components isn't a new concept, but this approach is assuming greater importance. For IT, disaggregation means breaking a computer down to its core elements -- compute, memory, I/O, storage, cache, network fabric and so on -- to implement more-cost-effective, agile infrastructures and more-efficient storage allocation. But why do this now after a decade of aggregating IT resources through concepts like hyper-convergence? Scaling resources individually is often more-cost-effective than scaling them as combinations. The idea of disaggregation is to create pools of individual resources using many computers and then allot appropriate combinations of resources -- memory, CPU, cache, network fabric and storage allocation -- on demand to serve individual applications. Done correctly, disaggregation enables standing up and breaking down infrastructures almost instantaneously, with resource utilization soaring past 80% and management costs decreasing with the resulting automation of storage allocation. Let's explore five products to illustrate how disaggregation is being used and the benefits are accruing. Three are normally associated with storage: #Nutanix, #Pivot3 and #Datrium. The remaining two -- #DriveScale and #HewlettPackardEnterprise 's #Synergy -- apply disaggregation on a broader front.

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/feature/Disaggregating-network-compute-and-storage-allocation-demystified

Datrium Goes Outside VMware Zone to Run Multiple Cloud Environments

Private cloud infrastructure provider #Datrium is stepping outside its historical #VMware comfort zone with new storage support for various open source platforms. The company said it’s adding support to #RedHat Enterprise #Linux (RHEL) servers and kernel virtual machines ( #KVM ) to its core software platform. The platform currently supports VMware servers and vSphere virtual machines.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/datrium-goes-outside-vmware-zone-to-run-multiple-cloud-environments/2017/07/

Datrium Adds Mixed Hypervisor And Stateful Container Support

SUNNYVALE, Calif.� #Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConverged Infrastructure for private clouds, today announced it has added support for #RedHat Virtualization to its #DVX platform and Data Cloud software. Datrium DVX Software 3.0 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers and kernel virtual machines (KVM) in the same way it supports #VMware servers and #vSphere virtual machines (VMs), and can run both environments within a single Datrium DVX system and with a single management view. With this software release, Datrium DVX is part of the Red Hat Enterprise #Linux ecosystem. Datrium also announced support for stateful Linux containers and #Docker persistent volumes, for both bare metal and virtualized deployments, enabling end to end encryption and cloud data management on a per container basis. By 2018, more than 50 percent of new workloads will be deployed into containers in at least one stage of the application life cycle.1 Unfortunately for many enterprises, a number of hyperconvergence approaches support only one hypervisor, and most have no per-container data management services such as snap, clone, or replication at all. Hypervisor Choice Can Reduce Cost, Lock-in With Datrium DVX Software 3.0, both VMware vSphere and Red Hat Virtualization compute nodes can be supported within one Datrium system, helping to reduce the costs of virtualization and hypervisor lock-in. Compute nodes run all VM workloads in local flash for high performance, and store persistent data on capacity-optimized secondary storage appliances called data nodes, which include always-on erasure coding, global deduplication and compression. Data Cloud, Datrium's built-in cloud data management software, provides recovery and replication of Red Hat Virtualization data across sites. Datrium DVX can restore a Red Hat VM as well as discrete virtual disks, so customers may not need to replace and reconfigure the entire VM when recovering data, also helping to reduce downtime and administrative overhead. "As the world's leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat is always seeking new relationships which can support the delivery of massively scalable cloud infrastructures," said Mike Werner , senior director, Global Technology Ecosystems, Red Hat. "We are excited to collaborate with Datrium, whose converged infrastructure can help build on the simplicity, scalability and economic benefits that Red Hat- based clouds are designed to provide." "Building on our industry-leading work with Open Convergence we are incredibly proud to collaborate with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, providing choice to enterprises looking for building a foundation for future technologies and reducing cost and complexity," said Andre Leibovici, Datrium Vice President for Solutions and Alliances. Container Data Security, Protection and Mobility Datrium also announced support of stateful Linux containers for both bare-metal and virtualized deployments, and the availability of its Docker persistent volumes plug-in. One of the key benefits of the Datrium platform is that a container persistent volume cloned on one compute node can be immediately used on another. One of the significant challenges of containers, however, is that it represents an order of magnitude more objects to manage than virtual machines. Datrium has addressed this with a combination of powerful search capabilities, the ability to create logical groups of containers (called a Protection Group) aligned to customer applications, and assignment of protection policies to those groups for instant recovery, archive, DR and more. In addition, with Dynamic Policy Binding, which auto-includes new containers into a protection group based on naming convention, Datrium DVX with Data Cloud software enables a simpler way to manage and protect containers at scale. Finally, because Datrium Blanket Encryption protects data in use, in flight and at rest with full data reduction, it is ideal for an environment where containers may be developed in one location and deployed in another. The container will remain encrypted and secure through its entire lifecycle on Datrium DVX, from development to production to archive. "Private clouds, like public clouds, need to consolidate high-growth instance types like containers, but in private clouds, hypervisors are also a choice," said Brian Biles , Datrium CEO and cofounder. "DVX 3.0 brings Datrium customers early access to the emerging power of per-container data management, while enabling hypervisor freedom of choice, all with unparalleled simplicity and performance."

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/Operators/71211.php

Datrium Adds Mixed Hypervisor And Stateful Container Support

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConvergedInfrastructure for private clouds, today announced it has added support for Red Hat Virtualization to its DVX platform and Data Cloud software. Datrium DVX Software 3.0 supports #RedHat Enterprise #Linux servers and kernel virtual machines ( #KVM ) in the same way it supports #VMware servers and vSphere virtual machines (VMs), and can run both environments within a single Datrium DVX system and with a single management view. With this software release, Datrium DVX is part of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem. Datrium also announced support for stateful Linux containers and #Docker persistent volumes, for both bare-metal and virtualized deployments, enabling end-to-end encryption and cloud data management on a per-container basis. By 2018, more than 50 percent of new workloads will be deployed into containers in at least one stage of the application life cycle.1 Unfortunately for many enterprises, a number of hyperconvergence approaches support only one hypervisor, and most have no per-container data management services such as snap, clone, or replication at all. Hypervisor Choice Can Reduce Cost, Lock-in With Datrium DVX Software 3.0, both VMware vSphere and Red Hat Virtualization compute nodes can be supported within one Datrium system, helping to reduce the costs of virtualization and hypervisor lock-in. Compute nodes run all VM workloads in local flash for high performance, and store persistent data on capacity-optimized secondary storage appliances called data nodes, which include always-on erasure coding, global deduplication and compression. Data Cloud, Datrium's built-in cloud data management software, provides recovery and replication of Red Hat Virtualization data across sites. Datrium DVX can restore a Red Hat VM as well as discrete virtual disks, so customers may not need to replace and reconfigure the entire VM when recovering data, also helping to reduce downtime and administrative overhead. "As the world's leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat is always seeking new relationships which can support the delivery of massively scalable cloud infrastructures," said Mike Werner, senior director, Global Technology Ecosystems, Red Hat. "We are excited to collaborate with Datrium, whose converged infrastructure can help build on the simplicity, scalability and economic benefits that Red Hat- based clouds are designed to provide." "Building on our industry-leading work with Open Convergence we are incredibly proud to collaborate with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, providing choice to enterprises looking for building a foundation for future technologies and reducing cost and complexity," said Andre Leibovici, Datrium Vice President for Solutions and Alliances. Container Data Security, Protection and Mobility Datrium also announced support of stateful Linux containers for both bare-metal and virtualized deployments, and the availability of its Docker persistent volumes plug-in. One of the key benefits of the Datrium platform is that a container persistent volume cloned on one compute node can be immediately used on another. One of the significant challenges of containers, however, is that it represents an order of magnitude more objects to manage than virtual machines. Datrium has addressed this with a combination of powerful search capabilities, the ability to create logical groups of containers (called a Protection Group) aligned to customer applications, and assignment of protection policies to those groups for instant recovery, archive, DR and more. In addition, with Dynamic Policy Binding, which auto-includes new containers into a protection group based on naming convention, Datrium DVX with Data Cloud software enables a simpler way to manage and protect containers at scale.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/datrium-adds-mixed-hypervisor-and-stateful-container-support-300489655.html

Datrium DVX Receives Citrix Ready Verification

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Datrium, the leading provider of Open Converged Infrastructure for private clouds, today announced that it has been verified as #CitrixReady® and the solution is now available in the Citrix Ready Marketplace. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. As part of the program, Datrium has completed a rigorous process to ensure its Open Convergence platform, Datrium DVX Rackscale, is compatible with Citrix XenDesktop®. Datrium DVX is an important addition to the Citrix Ready program as it offers Citrix XenDesktop customers a flexible, simple and affordable solution for growing private cloud deployments. Citrix XenDesktop and Datrium DVX combine to provide a virtual desktop solution for simple administration, responsive desktop performance, server choice flexibility and cost-effective scaling of virtual desktop deployments. The Datrium approach also equips administrators with a familiar environment to effortlessly provision virtual desktops, accelerate applications, and protect and recover virtual machines, desktops, and disks. "We are pleased to have Datrium join us in the Citrix Ready program," said Siddharth Rabindran, Director, Citrix Ready program at Citrix. "Citrix Ready makes it easier for customers to select the most suitable virtualization infrastructure products for their specific needs. By taking part in our program, Datrium has enabled its customers to obtain the highest quality user experience available today, and the simplest means for making an informed product purchasing selection." Benefits of integrating Datrium DVX with Citrix XenDesktop include: Start small and scale simply, using new or existing hosts with commodity SSDs and Datrium DVX. No hardware vendor lock-ins. Handle boot or login storms effectively with all desktops resident in local server flash. Experience data reduction rates of up to 9:1 in VDI deployments using always-on global deduplication and compression. Protect critical data with snapshot, cloning, and elastic replication to ensure virtual desktop backups are available locally and off-site for blazing fast recovery. Safeguard enterprise data from network sniffers with AES-XTS-256 end-to-end software encryption without performance overhead. Datrium DVX separates on-host IO performance and data services from off-host durable data, so speed and persistent capacity can each be provisioned independently, easily scaling resources with the addition of new compute or data nodes. This separation allows each host to remain stateless so can operate independently from others, allowing for flexible server choice, better resource isolation and overall availability. "We are proud to have achieved Citrix Ready certification for running Citrix flagship products on Datrium DVX," said Andre Leibovici, Datrium Vice President for Solutions and Alliances. "Reducing datacenter complexities allow Citrix customers to provide best-in-class user experience with superior economics, simple management, scalability, and most importantly higher predictability for successful deployments."

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/datrium-dvx-receives-citrix-ready-verification-300480155.html

The first day of the press tour kicks off in California

#Rubrik, #BigSwitch Networks and #Datrium met with the press tour on its first day in Silicon Valley Rubrik Rubrik kicked off the press tour by introducing journalists to a new product and talking to them about the company at its office in Palo Alto. #Alta is Rubik's ninth product release and has a number of new features including database support for #Oracle, #SQL instant recovery and also supports #CloudOn, which provides application mobility across data centre and cloud. 

Having raised $180 million in Series D funding in April at a $1.3 billion valuation, for a total of $292 million, Rubrik plans to IPO "at some point", according to corporate marketing VP, John Koo.

With 400 employees and offices in Europe and Asia, the company is looking to recruit a lot more engineers too, in order to keep up its pace of innovation.

The company has identified a market opportunity in copy data management, which includes data protection and recovery, archiving, replication, file systems, storage and more - meaning it's going up against giants such as Dell EMC and Veritas.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/strategy/28884/the-it-press-tour-rubrik-big-switch-networks-and-datrium

Storage Arrays and Hyperconvergence for Private Cloud Are on a Death Watch

#Datrium announces today why traditional storage arrays and hyperconvergence ( #HCI ) are dying: datacenters without big drawbacks. Datrium, in response to not-so-great options, is offering infrastructure customers a viable alternative that makes private cloud infrastructure even simpler and more effortless than ever. Datrium’s open converged infrastructure works to speed up hybrid and private cloud infrastructure deployments while simplifying end-to-end administration. In fact, customers can now run and protect primary virtual machine-based workloads on a single platform, eliminating the need to buy multiple, separate platforms. Brian Biles, CEO of Datrium wrote in his recent blog “Is HCI Dead?”: “We know both arrays and HCI have problems. We also know that when people don’t receive what [they] promised to deliver, they go looking for better products.” Life use to be simple As CEO Brian Biles explained in his recent blog, “Life for storage used to be simple — there was Hyperconvergence (HCI) and Arrays. Arrays kept all RAID and storage off-host, across a fabric. As workloads grew with new hosts, IO service bandwidth supply shrank in proportion and special hardware was okay. On the other hand, hyperconvergence was like Hadoop where it put storage on standard compute servers. IO service bandwidth grew automatically with hosts and there was no special hardware.” Since then, the lines have been blurred about what is hyperconverged and what is not. It has also become increasingly clear that its value diminishes at rack-scale. The proof is with customers Recent new Datrium customer, San Luis Coastal Unified School District (SLCUSD) and Altair Global show both the allure of Datrium’s open convergence technology and that traditional storage arrays and/or HCI are not sufficient.

http://m.digitaljournal.com/pr/3381584

Datrium DVX

Complexity is the top problem plaguing data centers and the move to private and hybrid clouds. With the cost and rigidity of traditional storage arrays, the market is looking to #SDS and #hyperconverged infrastructure on standard x86 platforms. However, these technologies also have compromises, including a forklift overhaul of the server infrastructure, server maintenance complexities, network bottlenecks, and high cost to scale. Thankfully there is a new wave of convergence, Open Converged Infrastructure, which offers vastly simpler performance, scalability and protection for virtualization and private clouds, enterprise applications, dev/ops, analytics and virtual desktop environments. #Datrium DVX combines compute nodes, flash-based servers for high performance, with data nodes, low cost, erasure-coded object stores for durable primary data and copy data management. This separation of node types, unachievable with hyperconverged architectures, enables simple and efficient Google- or Facebook-style infrastructure for private cloud data centers.
https://access.redhat.com/ecosystem/software/3070761

Is your data safe? A deeper look at Datrium In-Flight and At-Rest AES-XTS-256 encryption

Im starting to discuss some of the features and design aspects that got me enthusiastic about #Datrium tech. A feature that has been driving many interesting conversations with customers is the new #BlanketEncryption. First, let’s rewind a bit. (If you only want to find out about the product features and skip my long-winded write-up just skip the bottom of the article.) Gemalto’s Breach Level Index (BLI) tracks publicly disclosed breaches across the globe, measuring their severity via a multidimensional index based on factors including the number of compromised records, the source and the type of breach. In March 2017, Gemalto released the BLI findings revealing that 1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 billion data records being compromised worldwide during 2016, an increase of 86% compared to 2015.

http://www.dabcc.com/is-your-data-safe-a-deeper-look-at-datrium-in-flight-and-at-rest-aes-xts-256-encryption/