Rozo Systems, a provider of software-defined scale-out NAS solutions, announced RozoFS 3 in an effort to significantly improve data center storage performance for its customers by as much as 60 percent, offering the performance of flash at the price of disk. This new software release includes benefits such as network acceleration, file delete recovery and fast metadata analytics, which are a must-have for companies in many vertical markets, including media and entertainment, as well as science and education, where Rozo customers have implemented the software.
“The Rozo solution is disruptive for the storage industry,” said Jason Fotter, co-founder and CTO at FuseFX. “In the traditional model, fast is expensive. With Rozo, you can build a cost-effective hardware configuration at a performance that competitors can’t offer even on more expensive hardware.”
RozoFS improves performance for its mid-size to enterprise customers through the use of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v2). RDMA transfers data directly between the RozoFS memory and the network adapters on both the RozoFS storage servers and clients, eliminating the OS-generated data buffer copies when using TCP/IP. Benefits include reduced latency, increased network bandwidth, lower CPU consumption and superior use of high-speed memory.
For the Rozo customer base, SMB is becoming the network protocol of choice in many markets. RozoFS 3 is speeding up SMB access by optimizing the protocol. The software also now provides the most requested data recovery feature: the ability to retrieve accidentally deleted files. RozoFS can be configured so files are not erased on deletion, but are kept along with their deletion date in a parallel trash namespace. The delayed delete service can be tied to policies that later complete the deletion based on criteria such as elapsed time from the deletion date, thereby keeping data management and protection a simple set-and-forget operation.
Also, a new API makes searching metadata information faster than interrogating the file system using the POSIX interface. Scanning file systems based on metadata criteria is reduced from hours to seconds for large-scale petabyte file systems. This paves the way for linking RozoFS across sites and with the cloud.
“Our clients have four common needs: outstanding performance, ease of scalability, high availability and sensible pricing,” said Paul Evans, principal architect, Daystrom Technology Group. “Before Rozo was in our portfolio, it was difficult to deliver on all four objectives. However, RozoFS’s flexibility, agility and ultra-efficient use of hardware resources allow us to tailor solutions to the clients’ needs and deliver the performance without extra costs. It has transformed what we can do for a client and they keep coming back for more.”
“With this new release, our customers will experience the performance of flash storage at the price of disk,” said Pierre Evenou, CEO of Rozo Systems. “They can enjoy the benefits of software-defined solutions with RozoFS, enabling high-performance workflows that were previously restricted to dedicated, expensive storage arrays.”
