Veritas announced at
OpenStack Summit, Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack, a new
software-defined storage solution designed to maximize workload
performance, lower operating costs and protect data in OpenStack-based
cloud environments.
As OpenStack gains traction as an open source
platform for cloud infrastructures, some of its components are at
vastly different stages of maturity. While enterprises and app
developers enjoy the flexibility and agility the environment provides,
storage management capabilities are not as advanced. As a result,
organizations often face challenges with workload performance,
reliability and efficiency as well as with storage optimization and data protection. Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack addresses these issues directly.
HyperScale for OpenStack helps organizations realize the speed and economic benefits of deploying applications
on OpenStack through predictable performance and storage quality of
service (QoS). The software-defined storage solution leverages commodity
hardware and includes integration for enterprise data protection.
"Organizations look to open source platforms to drive innovation, while reducing complexity and cost," said Mike Palmer,
executive vice president and chief product officer, Veritas. "Today's
announcement helps customers achieve improved data management and
protection independent of the hardware, on-premises or in the cloud. This
is critical for enterprise adoption of OpenStack."
A key feature
of HyperScale for OpenStack is a patent-pending dual-plane architecture
that distributes storage functionality between separate compute and data
planes. This separation increases performance while maintaining
efficiency, allowing for data management tasks, performed at the data
plane, to be decoupled from workload processing at the compute plane.
Efficient use of direct attached storage (DAS) helps minimize total cost
of ownership without compromising performance and resiliency
requirements.
"Veritas has a strong heritage in software-defined
storage and Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack solves the challenges for
OpenStack adopters concerned with performance and reliability of their
most demanding workloads," said Anand Krishnan,
executive vice president for Cloud at Canonical. "Canonical believes
that by collaborating with Veritas, we will help our mutual customers
adopt OpenStack with confidence to extract more value from their data."
Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack enables customers adopting cloud-based architectures to realize additional benefits including:
- Increased data protection to meet workload needs, with the ability for backups to be executed without impacting application performance.
- Simplified storage management and reporting for managing primary and secondary storage from within OpenStack Horizon.
- Enhanced IT efficiency
through faster instance provisioning with chosen storage and compute
resources and the ability to address storage needs of both legacy and
newer cloud applications.
- Reduced deployment complexity through integration with distribution-specific deployment tools.
"Enterprises
are looking to more easily adopt OpenStack cloud software and other
open source platforms, while preserving their existing investments and
creating new business advances. However, despite growing momentum,
customers face challenges around managing data in the cloud," said Amita Potnis,
Research Manager, Storage Systems at IDC. "Today's announcement from
Veritas offers a key motivator for businesses moving to the cloud to
help with workload performance and protection of data."