Excelero has added public cloud storage support to its flagship NVMesh elastic NVMe software-defined storage solution.
Available first for the Microsoft Azure platform, and later for other major public
clouds, NVMesh expands public cloud capabilities by addressing the massive gaps
experienced by thousands of organizations that face major performance
challenges while attempting to transition their demanding IO-intensive
workloads to public clouds at a reasonable cost.
By leveraging
Excelero's field-proven scalable, elastic, low-latency software-defined storage
on standard cloud compute elements, beta use has shown that NVMesh on Azure
provides up to 25x more IO/s and up to 10x more bandwidth to a single compute
element - while reducing latencies by 80% from a truly protected storage layer.
Using standard instances for storage on cost-effective NVMe drives, enterprises
can get the most value out of their data leveraging their cloud pricing and
discounts. For converged environments, with applications running on the same
virtual machines that run the storage, total cost of ownership (TCO) is further
improved since the storage is embedded into the compute at almost no additional
cost.
"Many of our
customers require low latency and high throughput storage for their
IO-Intensive workloads," said Aman Verma, product manager, HPC at Microsoft
Azure. "Excelero's NVMesh on Azure's InfiniBand-enabled H- and N-series
virtual machines provides an exciting new scalable, protected storage option
for several high growth segments of the market, including HPC and AI
workloads."
With Excelero
NVMesh, data scientists achieve efficient and cost-effective model training
through high bandwidth and ultra-low latency and rates of millions of file accesses
per second. Database and analytics workloads and high performance computation
can be run on CPUs and GPUs without stalling for I/O and at a reasonable cost.
The same methods can be employed with the same software stack deployed
on-premise and on public clouds.
With data
protection becoming essential for IO-intensive applications, Excelero NVMesh on
Azure protects data by mirroring across local NVMe drives. The solution allows
data to be spread across availability zones for an additional level of protection.
Self-healing and advance warning functionality assist in ensuring data
longevity. Enterprises have no concerns over data compliance and security as
data is stored on nodes within their account.
In
container-native settings, Excelero's Kubernetes CSI driver and
industry-leading IBM Red Hat OpenShift integration provide a second simple
means of rolling out NVMesh on Azure enabling hybrid cloud deployments, for
instance for burst-oriented workloads.
"Gaps in public
cloud storage capabilities prevent many demanding applications from running on
public clouds, regardless of the obvious cost and scalability advantages, and
force enterprises to endure a latency penalty should they go there," said Eric
Burgener, research vice president in the Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and
Technologies Group at IDC. "These gaps also are preventing public
cloud providers from fueling their own growth. Solutions that remove these
barriers are emerging, and they are an exciting development to watch."
"Too many of our
customers are struggling with IO-intensive workloads that they would prefer to
move to the public cloud, yet public cloud providers are grappling to deliver
the cost-performance their customers need with these storage workloads," said
Yaniv Romem, CEO of Excelero. "Excelero's new NVMesh on Azure
bridges the gap between what the market offers and what enterprises require,
helping them avoid costly overprovisioning of storage so they can embrace
hybrid- and multi-cloud strategies assuring performance, agility and cost
control. Look for continued innovation from us in this space across the coming
months."
Excelero NVMesh on
Azure is now publicly available.