A breakthrough cost structure for the software-defined data center
It’s VMworld time! We’re proud to be one of the New Innovators sponsors, are looking forward to seeing our global partners and vendors, learning about newest SDS and SDDC developments, and showcasing our cloud storage solutions.
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Zadara Storage Booth #2035 at Innovators Pavilion
WATCH OUR PRESENTATION:
Wednesday, August 28, at 2:15pm / Mellanox Booth #2005
At the Mellanox Booth at VM World 2013, Zadara Storage CEO, Nelson Nahum, will present the Zadara™ Storage Cloud, based on the patent-pending CloudFabric™ architecture, and providing a breakthrough cost structure for data centers. Zadara’s software-defined solution employs standard, off-the-shelf x86 servers, and utilizes Ethernet as its only interconnect to provide performant, reliable, SSD- and spindle-based SAN and NAS as a service.
If you are wondering what our software-defined storage solution has to do with InfiniBand or Ethernet networking technologies – read our guest blog post for the Mellanox Blog.
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The Mellanox Technologies Blog
The Storage Fabric of the Future Virtualized Data Center
There are multiple storage fabrics and interconnects available today, including Fibre Channel, Ethernet and SAS. Each has various pros and cons, and fabrics were chosen according to need of performance, compatibility and cost efficiencies.
As an enterprise storage-as-a-service provider, delivering a software-based cloud storage solution for public, private and hybrid cloud models based on commodity hardware, Zadara Storage provides storage-as-a-service in multiple public cloud and colocation facilities around the globe. Consistency, high availability and predictability are key in supplying the scalable, elastic service our customers expect, regardless of their location, facility or the public cloud they employ. The hardware we use needs to be dependable, pervasive and cost-efficient in order to sustain the performance and cost-level of our service, anywhere and at any scale.
- Ethernet’s speed roadmap is aggressive: from 10GbE to 40GbE, and upcoming 100GbE
- Ethernet is ubiquitous: we can employ it with no complication at any data center or colocation facility around the globe
- The latency we have found to be more than manageable, specifically as we use advanced techniques such as IO virtualization and data passthrough
- Ethernet is the most cost effective: an as a service company needs to have a competitive pricing edge.