Last
month, I caught up with Masa Kawano of Coho Data, where the company
introduced and demonstrated their support for OpenStack on DataStream
and that the Coho Cinder driver is part of the OpenStack Mitaka. And
now, the company is announcing DataStream 2.7, so I am now talking
with Suzy Visvanathan about what is new for both Coho Data and its
latest Coho DataStream architecture.
VMblog: To
kick things off, why don't you tell us about Coho Data?
Suzy Visvanathan: Sure.
Coho Data specializes in scale-out flash storage for the enterprise,
which allows our customers to bring the efficiency and flexibility of
the public cloud into their on-premise datacenters for greater
security and performance. We believe that the new world of big data
demands a fundamentally new approach to storage - one that is
flash-tuned, self-managing, massively scalable, and runs directly on
the storage arrays themselves. So we feel that our Coho DataStream
Architecture is designed to take full advantage of the emerging
technologies that are reshaping IT.
VMblog: Can
you give us an overview of the Coho DataStream 2.7 and what it
offers?
Visvanathan: Absolutely.
Our newest Coho DataStream release, version 2.7, enables enterprises
to host both block- and file-based workloads on the same platform,
and incorporates support for OpenStack on DataStream, which we
introduced
last month and demonstrated at the OpenStack Summit.
Coho DataStream is
designed for cloud infrastructures and its unique SDN integration
provides network optimized workload distribution and parallelization
to support the scalability requirements of cloud-based applications.
VMblog: What
problem does Coho DataStream 2.7 solve?
Visvanathan: We've
been hearing pretty consistently from our customers that they desire
a single platform at their datacenter, so we designed this new 2.7
release with the key goal of addressing this particular need.
Moreover, our platform is designed from the bottom up to address true
scale out, which when combined with the ability to host heterogeneous
environments, addresses our customers' current requirements.
VMblog: Compared
to traditional storage solutions, what does Coho DataStream 2.7 do
differently?
Visvanathan: We
feel that our Coho DataStream 2.7 offers four unique benefits to our
users that other traditional storage solutions cannot offer.
First,
we are able to provide our customers with a single platform to host
virtual and non-virtual workloads, which allows enterprises to cover
80-90 percent of their datacenter production workloads, thereby
removing the complexity involved in choosing different storage
solutions for these workloads.
Second, we offer a scale-out private
cloud environment to help increase utilization and efficiency on the
Coho Data storage platform.
Third, our fine granular management
allows users of Coho Data systems to monitor and manage the
individual files that comprise the application.
And finally, we offer
OpenStack support with Coho's DataStream Cinder API integration -
enabling organizations to build OpenStack block storage
infrastructure that dynamically scales both performance and capacity
in response to application demands.
As a result, our platform
uniquely delivers true scale-out storage performance, unparalleled
simplicity and a 75 percent reduction in total cost of ownership for
our users.
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Once again, thank you to Suzy
Visvanathan, Director of Product Management, Coho Data, for taking time out to speak with VMblog.