Data storage solutions are essential today to meet the growing demands of the digital economy: the exponential increase of information necessarily implies an infrastructure to store it securely, scalably, reliably, and with maximum performance.
Today we bring you a practical example of a platform that meets all these challenges, competitively and at a multi-petabyte scale: InfiniBox® from our partner Infinidat.
Extreme performance with minimal costs
InfiniBox® offers faster performance than any flash, high availability, and multi-petabyte scale for mixed application workloads. Zero-impact snapshots and active/active replication dramatically improve business agility, while FIPS-validated data-at-rest encryption eliminates the need to erase decommissioned arrays. With InfiniBox, organizations are able to exceed their service level objectives while reducing the cost and complexity of their storage operations – at petabyte scale.
How competitive is InfiniBox?
Forrester Consulting conducted an economic impact study that yielded relevant and very enlightening conclusions for those evaluating data storage solutions of this type, among which are the following:
- ROI of 125% (recovery in less than 6 months)
- Total benefit of $18.4 million over three years
- Investment with a very positive Net Present Value of $10.2 million
- Downtime cost savings of $1.1 million
Valuable arguments to which are added many other advantages of InfiniBox, summarized here:
High performance – a truly innovative and effective cache management algorithm (neural cache), combined with an ultra-efficient data layout, delivers high throughput, with microsecond latency. NVMe-oF and SCM (Storage Class Memory) readiness preserve the solution’s competitive advantages as the infrastructure continues to evolve.
Multi-petabyte scale – maximum utilization of system capacity is possible due to extremely efficient dynamic provisioning, continuous space reclamation, and inline data compression. Consolidation of multiple systems is easy to accomplish and remarkably cost-effective, especially with a single 42U rack that can reach over 8PB of effective capacity.
High availability and reliability – the solution’s automatic recovery architecture, leveraging InfiniRaid data layout and predictive failure analysis, provides the highest availability in the market and seamless upgrades. The hardware redundancy design (n + 2) allows fast recovery from any component failure.
Agility and business continuity – zero-impact, space-efficient snapshots simplify data protection, and accelerate agile development and quality assurance with near-infinite copies of data. Integrated synchronous, asynchronous, and active/active replication provides the highest levels of data availability for business continuity and disaster recovery.
Simple and robust management for multi-tenant environments– InfiniVerse, a cloud-based analytics tool, monitors and provides insights into the state of the solution, and predicts the impact of infrastructure changes to performance. Element management is done via the InfiniBox GUI, an intuitive HTML5 GUI that simplifies the most complex storage management operations. A complete RESTful API and a powerful CLI help automate complex tasks. Advanced features facilitate service level coordination between tenants, workloads, and volumes.
Unified storage – the solution provides FC, iSCSI, NFSv3, and SMB protocols simultaneously on a single platform, making it easy to consolidate workloads. Eliminates multiple arrays and service contracts related to the solution.
Connectivity and integration – integration with business-critical applications in the data center through native interfaces. Host PowerTools, a connectivity and storage provisioning tool, reduces management tasks from days or hours to seconds.
All this radically lowers the cost and complexity of your storage operations. Hard to believe? Just as many other companies have already done, yours too can enter a new level in terms of data storage solutions. Contact Warpcom and count on us as your Infinidat partner.