Nexenta, the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced the launch of NexentaEdge 1.0
– the industry’s first software-only scale out block and object storage
solution designed to deliver high performance global inline
deduplication on petabyte scale clusters. NexentaEdge is ideally suited
for next-generation open source cloud infrastructures and Big Data
repositories requiring performance, scale and low total cost of
ownership. The solution will be demonstrated for the first time at VMworld US 2014, August 24-28 in San Francisco.
Object storage is increasingly taking center
stage as a required storage option to support emerging cloud-based and
Big Data applications. Breaking with the constraints of legacy
enterprise storage, modern object stores are specifically designed to
run on extremely low cost shared nothing clusters and present all
capacity as one single pool. Key characteristics include scaling to
virtually unlimited sizes while remaining easy to manage and highly
resilient to device and node failures. IDC
forecasts that worldwide revenue for file-based and object-based
storage will reach $38 billion by 2017, a 65% increase from the
estimated $23 billion revenue in 2013. Even more significantly, IDC
forecasts total capacity shipments for file and object storage to reach
173 exabytes by 2017, more than 4 times the capacity shipped in 2013.
"The challenge for IT decision makers is
that the growth in unstructured data is placing huge pressure on already
tight IT budgets," said Ashish Nadkarni, Storage Systems Research
Director, IDC. "File-based and object-based solutions are much more
versatile and will quickly outpace more rigid, hardware-based options.
Software-based storage solutions based on commodity hardware platforms
will lead the charge in the file- and object-based storage market."
NexentaEdge is a new scalable solution that
helps enterprises store and manage the growing amount of unstructured
data including film, medical images, graphic designs and cloud
backup/archive. The solution allows users to store any amount of data in
a single, highly available repository with industry leading TCO thanks
to inline data deduplication functionality.
Complementing the existing NexentaStor solution, NexentaEdge 1.0 features include:
- Industry-standard x86 server utilization running Ubuntu or Red Hat Linux
- iSCSI Block, Cinder, Swift and S3 Object APIs
- Scale out, shared nothing architecture of any scale
- Always on, high performance global inline deduplication and compression
- Continuous real-time optimization of performance and capacity utilization
- Network optimization to reduce bandwidth requirements and avoid congestion
- Self-healing capabilities using strong cryptographic hashing to guarantee data integrity
- Designed to take advantage of key/value drives optimized for next generation scale-out object storage (e.g. Seagate Kinetic)
"The explosion of unstructured data
driven by today's trends of social, mobile, the Internet of Things, and
Big Data is hard to ignore. The legacy hardware- and new appliance-based
systems are not designed to handle these sorts of workloads, data types
and volumes. However, it has become the norm for the legacy vendors to
keep chucking more hardware at the problem," said Tarkan Maner, CEO at
Nexenta. "Nexenta delivers the most comprehensive Software-Defined
Storage portfolio on any hardware platform, across any type of protocol
or workload. With today's announcement of NexentaEdge we are extending
our disruptive technology capabilities.Now, we are providing enterprises
and cloud service providers with a state-of-the-art Software-Defined
Solution portfolio delivering ultra-scale, performance and TCO from
block and file to object storage on any platform and for any workload or
app."
Availability
NexentaEdge will be available worldwide in Q4 2014. For more information, visit: http://www.nexenta.com/products/nexentaedge