Alternatives to Lightbits

QuantaStor, a unified Software Defined Storage platform, is designed to scale up and down to simplify storage management and reduce overall storage costs. QuantaStor storage grids can be configured to support complex workflows that span datacenters and sites. QuantaStor's storage technology includes a built-in Federated Management System that allows QuantaStor servers and clients to be combined to make management and automation easier via CLI and RESTAPIs. QuantaStor's layered architecture gives solution engineers unprecedented flexibility and allows them to design applications that maximize workload performance and fault tolerance for a wide variety of storage workloads. QuantaStor provides end-to-end security coverage that allows multi-layer data protection for cloud and enterprise storage deployments.

Simplyblock provides a distributed storage solution for IO-intensive and latency-sensitive container workloads in the cloud, offering an alternative to Elastic Block Storage services. The storage solution enables thin provisioning, encryption, compression, storage virtualization, and more.

AWS Outposts provides a fully managed service that offers the exact same AWS infrastructure, AWS Services, APIs, APIs, tools, and tools to almost any datacenter, colocation space, or on premises facility. This ensures a consistent hybrid experience. AWS Outposts is the best choice for workloads that require low latency to access on-premises systems, local processing, data residency, and migrations of applications with local system interdependencies. AWS compute, storage and database services are available locally on Outposts. You can also access the full range AWS services in the Region to manage, scale, and build your on-premises application using familiar AWS tools and services. A VMware version of AWS Outposts is coming soon. VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts provides a fully managed VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), which runs on AWS Outposts infrastructure.

SoftNAS is a cloud-native and software-defined enterprise cloud NAS filer product line. It can be used for primary data storage, secondary data storage, and hybrid cloud data integration. It allows existing applications to securely connect to the cloud without reengineering. SoftNAS offers enterprise-class NAS features such as high-availability and deduplication, compression and thin-provisioning. It also supports LDAP integration and Active Directory integration. SoftNAS protects mission critical data, primary, hot data, backup/archive, and makes cloud data migration more efficient and reliable. SoftNAS offers the most comprehensive storage options in terms price vs performance and backend storage choice, available on-demand at petabyte-scale across the AWS Marketplaces and Azure Marketplaces as well as on-premises on VMware.

IBM Elastic Storage System is a modern implementation software-defined storage. It makes it easier to deploy fast and highly scalable storage for AI/big data. The ESS 3200/ESS 5000 nodes are able to grow to YB configurations with the NVMe storage technology, 8YB global file system, and global data services from IBM Spectrum Scale. IBM ESS helps reduce inefficiency, lower acquisition cost, simplify storage management, and support multiple demanding workloads.

Modern data centers need a single, unifying, infinitely scalable, and easy to manage storage solution. It transforms enterprise storage infrastructure into an innovative vehicle for innovation. SUSE Enterprise Storage is a flexible and reliable storage solution that is cost-effective, efficient, and intelligent. Ceph is a cloud-native storage solution that can be used for a variety of demanding workloads, including archival and high-performance computing (HPC). It is available for Arm and x86 architectures and can be deployed on most readily available hardware. This allows businesses to store and efficiently process their data to gain a competitive edge, optimize business operations, provide deeper customer insights, and build business intelligence to deliver better products and services. SUSE Enterprise Storage supports Kubernetes, seamlessly integrates with ML/AI and EDGE, and is compatible with embedded architecture.

The Vexata VX-100F unlocks NVMe over fabric (NVMe-oF), to deliver revolutionary economics and transformative performances. Vexata architecture eliminates excess latency from storage controllers to deliver consistent high performance at scale to speed up application response times. Vexata Accelerated data architecture delivers faster response times and more throughput for real-time analytics that require heavy data ingest. Vexata breaks down the traditional cost/performance barriers with a scalable solid-state storage platform that accelerates analytics and applications. VX-Cloud is a software-defined solution that supports all Machine Learning stages. It can support cognitive and AI workloads, as well as Cloud scale and economics.

Burlywood FlashOSTM is the first flash storage architecture to analyze application behavior at flash controller level. It tunes SSD performance and features to be a perfect match for the application and delivers tangible benefits to customers who deploy cloud storage, all flash arrays and hyper-converged solutions. Our FlashOS™, purpose-built controller technology, enables the next generation SSDs in the data center. The first software-defined SSD solution to today's complex cloud applications. Deep analysis and understanding your storage environment. You can control the supply chain and cost by using a unique software business model. Only application-focused, flexible storage solution. All phases of the lifecycle receive technical and strategic support. Legacy storage cannot keep up with today's complex cloud applications.

StoneFly provides high-performing, elastic, and always available IT infrastructure solutions. StoneFusion, StoneFly's intelligent and patented operating system architecture, allows us to support data dependent processes and applications seamlessly from anywhere. You can configure backup, replication, disaster relief, scale out block and file storage in private and/or public clouds. Support virtual, container hosting and more. StoneFly also offers Cloud data migration for email, documents, SharePoint, and physical storage. Total backup and disaster recovery solutions in one appliance or cloud. Hyperconverged options allow physical devices to be restored as virtual machines on the StoneFly disaster restoration appliance for instant recovery.

There are several key factors that, commercially and technologically speaking, are driving the need for a new approach in high-performance I/O. There are many new non-volatile memory devices (NVM) and media capacities are rapidly increasing. Diverse multi-core processor strategies are driving higher I/O volumes, and more demanding I/O profiles. Analytics and machine learning are being used by a new generation of high-business value markets, further putting pressure on performance limits. Traditional file systems can only manage flash at scale, while HDD performance decreases with increasing concurrency. IME provides predictable job performance, faster computation against large data sets, accelerates I/O intensive applications, and offers a safe, cost-efficient, and space-efficient landing area for bursty information.

IntelliFlash systems by Tintri and DDN combine performance and economics to provide full-service intelligent storage infrastructure. It optimizes SSD-to HDD ratios autonomously and delivers scalable performance. Enterprise applications are supported by a variety of time-saving management options. Consolidate multiple workloads using concurrent multiprotocol support block, file, object storage and VMs on one system. These systems can also improve cost efficiency by combining data reduction technologies, near instant backups, robust disaster protection, and powerful analytical software for faster data insight. DDN A3I addresses the unstructured nature of these applications and their data-intensive nature. High performance and scalable architectures are also beneficial for call and transaction records, consumer behaviour, and other structured data types.

Nexenta's open-source storage software eliminates storage silos. Comprehensive storage management in appliance and configurable reference architectures. Software-defined storage is the leader in software-defined storage. You can take advantage of all-flash and hybrid storage options with Agile storage software. Nexenta storage software has been installed in thousands of businesses around the globe, serving a wide range of workloads and business-critical scenarios. It powers some the largest cloud deployments in the world, hosts some the best entertainment content in the industry, serves large amounts of government data across multiple countries, and ensures that hundreds and thousands of medical records are safe and accessible at the point-of-service for healthcare companies worldwide.

StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage that eliminates downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and is used by thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea. SvSAN is a simple, 'set and forget' solution that ensures high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, supporting up to 1,000 2-node SvSAN clusters. IT professionals can deploy and manage 1,000 sites as easily as 1, with automation tools and scripts. It delivers 100% uptime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, even with poor, unreliable networks, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades. Plus, SvSAN gives organizations choice and control by allowing configurations of any x86 server models and storage types, even mixed within a cluster, while vSphere, Hyper-V or KVM hypervisors can be used.

IBM Storage Scale, a software-defined object and file storage, allows organizations to build global data platforms for artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics and high-performance computing. Unlike traditional applications that work with structured data, today's performance-intensive AI and analytics workloads operate on unstructured data, such as documents, audio, images, videos, and other objects. IBM Storage Scale provides global data abstractions services that seamlessly connect data sources in multiple locations, even non-IBM storage environments. It is based on a massively-parallel file system that can be deployed across multiple hardware platforms, including x86 and IBM Power mainframes as well as ARM-based POSIX clients, virtual machines and Kubernetes.

Red Hat® OpenShift® Data Foundation--previously Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage--is software-defined storage for containers. Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is the data and storage platform for Red Hat OpenShift. It allows teams to quickly and efficiently deploy applications across clouds. Even developers with limited storage knowledge can provision storage directly from Red Hat OpenShift, without having to switch to a separate interface. To support all types of workloads created in enterprise Kubernetes, data can be formatted as files, blocks, and objects. Our technical experts will work with you to determine the best storage solution for your hybrid cloud and multicloud container deployments.

Standardize on powerful, software defined HCI to deliver all services, applications, and data at any scale. This will allow you to focus on your most difficult business challenges. Replacing legacy infrastructure is possible. You can deploy resources in a matter of hours and provide applications the same day to meet your business needs. AOS delivers apps with the fastest possible performance and manages all your data. It also self heals to create a truly invisible infrastructure. Subscription-based software that runs on standard hardware supports all types of applications across data centers and remote locations. Your applications, data, and services require consistent performance and resilience at all scales. Nutanix HCI is the best solution for your digital services. AOS simplifies IT operations and reduces budget pressures. It integrates storage, networking, compute, and other services into one solution that can be managed by IT specialists.

Open-E JovianDSS, a ZFS and Linux-based software for data storage, is designed to fit enterprise-level Software Defined Storage (SDS). It is a comprehensive solution for data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery. Open-E JovianDSS is a powerful solution that ensures data integrity, security, and reliability. Its flexible and hardware-agnostic design supports cost-effective storage solutions that allow organizations to optimize their resources while protecting vital data. Backup and disaster recovery features such as High Availability, Off-site Data protection, and Read-only snapshots are built-in to protect business operations and minimize disruptions. Open-E JovianDSS is a flexible platform that adapts to changing IT requirements and provides a secure, scalable and efficient platform for managing enterprise information.

Infrastructure at your terms. This is the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform™. Software-defined storage platforms allow you to tailor your storage environment to meet your data and application requirements. The platform is built on industry-standard x86 servers and provides multi-protocol support across block, file and object storage with native app, hypervisor container, cloud integration and cloud integration to consolidate storage silos and eliminate data fragmentation. Stop fragmentation of your data infrastructure. Software-defined storage (SDS), a modern infrastructure for your modern data centre that is predictable, resilient, and simple, provides software-defined storage (SDS). Many enterprises use a combination of public and on-premises cloud infrastructure. This requires multiple applications to support VMs moving from on-premises to cloud. You would also like to speed provisioning to make managing VMs easier throughout their lifecycle.

Elastifile solves cloud integration data problems, allowing you to "lift and shift" easily. Cloud-native support of standard storage protocols (NFS), allows seamless compatibility with existing apps. Full enterprise feature-set provides the functionality and reliability required to cloud-integrate business-critical workflows. Cloud storage management is greatly simplified by the integration of natively integrated UIs, monitoring, billing, and reporting. Seamless scalability enables on-demand storage right-sizing...providing flexibility to match dynamic business requirements. Cloud-native architecture combines the best features of cloud to provide a seamless user experience at a low cost. Automated data storage allows for cost-effective primary storage as well as ultra-low-cost snapshots. Multi-zone. Any region. High availability.

Red Hat Gluster Storage stores data in a single location, eliminating the possibility of it being lost or corrupted. Scale as your business grows. You can deploy a multi-tenant storage solution in minutes without having to adhere to strict innovation cycles or specific hardware configurations. Red Hat Gluster Storage can be used wherever it makes sense: bare metal or virtualized, containerized or in the cloud. Digital storage is in high demand due to the digital transition and increased content and workflow requirements. Red Hat Gluster Storage is the ideal storage solution for media companies. Create cost-effective, agile and optimal virtual server storage infrastructures across heterogeneous platforms. Storage requirements for media and entertainment are increasing faster than budgets and capacity. Digital storage is in high demand due to the digital transition and increased content and workflow requirements. Red Hat Gluster Storage is a great choice for the media industry because it has lower costs than other storage vendors and can scale on demand.

StorPool provides a fully managed primary storage platform that businesses can use to host mission-critical workloads from their own datacenters. We make it easy to convert standard servers with NVMe SSDs to high-performance, linearly scaling primary storage systems. StorPool is a superior alternative for high-end SANs or All-Flash Arrays (AFA) and mid-range SANs for companies building private or public clouds. StorPool is more reliable, agile, faster, and more cost-effective than other primary storage products. It is a great replacement for legacy storage architectures such as mid- or high-end primary arrays. Your cloud computing offering will deliver exceptional performance, reliability, and a higher ROI.

Are you troubled by storage management nightmares? Whether you are losing sleep over managing different storage tiers for hot, warm, and cold data, or finding it hard to address disruptions and slowdowns, you can now rest easy with a truly software-defined storage solution. DataCore SANsymphony enables you to centrally automate and manage capacity provisioning and data placement across diverse storage environments (any SAN, DAS, HCI, or JBOD). Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology and a rich set of data services, SANsymphony delivers ultimate flexibility to control how you want to store and protect data. DataCore SANsymphony software-defined storage (SDS) provides organizations the flexibility, performance, and simplicity they need to efficiently aggregate isolated disparate storage resources into one highly available storage services pool. DataCore SANsymphony enables any mix of hyper-converged, converged (SAN), and storage virtualization deployment models to mitigate the business risks, IT complexities, and costs associated with different architectures, data migration initiatives, and protocols while increasing your organizations’ agility and competitive edge. DataCore’s hardware-agnostic approach.

OpenIO is a software-defined, open source object storage system that can be used for Big Data and HPC. OpenIO scales easily with its distributed grid architecture, and unique ConsciousGrid™, self-learning ConsciousGrid™, technology. It also delivers consistent high performance. OpenIO is S3-compatible and can be deployed on-premises, cloud-hosted, or on any hardware you choose. Scale seamlessly from Terabytes up to Exabytes. You can simply add nodes to increase capacity without rebalancing data and watch your performance increase linearly. Transfer data at 1Tbps and beyond Experience consistent high performance, even during scaling operations. Ideal for challenging and capacity-intensive workloads. Choose servers and storage media that best suit your evolving requirements. Avoid vendor lock-in. You can combine heterogeneous hardware at any moment, with different specifications, generations, or capacities.

NetApp ONTAP Select is a robust enterprise storage service that can be easily deployed on any commodity hardware you choose from the comfort of your data center. It combines the best aspects of the cloud with the flexibility, resilience and locality of on-premises storage. ONTAP Select transforms server's internal drives, NVMe SSD, SSD, or HDD into an agile, flexible storage solution with many of the same benefits as dedicated storage systems based upon NetApp®, ONTAP®. In minutes, you can spin up storage resources with cloud-like agility from start to serve data. With consistent management across your data fabric, you can move and replicate data quickly. Dynamically increase capacity and scale performance to meet changing business requirements. Extreme Edge can be deployed for mobile or autonomous vehicles, remote industrial environments and tactical field deployments.

SwiftStack is a multicloud data storage and management platform that enables data-driven apps and workflows. It seamlessly provides access to data across private and public infrastructures. SwiftStack Storage is an object and file storage product that can be scaled out geographically and starts at 10 terabytes. It can also expand to 100 petabytes. Connect your existing enterprise data to the SwiftStack platform to unlock it and make it available for your cloud-native modern applications. Avoid another major storage migration. Instead, use existing tier one storage for what it's useful for, not everything. SwiftStack 1space allows data to be placed across multiple clouds public and private using operator-defined policies. This helps the application and users get closer to the data. The platform's data movement is transparent to both users and applications.

Do you struggle with providing access to large data sets that are rapidly growing or enabling distributed content-based uses? Tape is cost-effective, but data is not always available and tape can be difficult to manage. Public cloud can present the challenge of unpredictable, compounding recurring costs and inability to meet privacy and performance requirements. DataCore Swarm is an on-premises object storage system that simplifies the process of managing, storing, and protecting data. It also allows S3/HTTP access for any application, device, and end-user. Swarm transforms your data archive to a flexible, immediately accessible content library that allows remote workflows, on demand access, and massive scaling.

GlusterFS is a scalable network storage system that can be used for data-intensive tasks like cloud storage or media streaming. GlusterFS is open-source software that is free and free to download. It can also be used with common off-the shelf hardware. Gluster is a distributed file system that aggregates disk storage resources across multiple servers into one global namespace. Enterprises can scale their capacity, performance, availability, and availability as needed, without vendor lock-in. This is possible in hybrid environments, on-premise, public clouds, and hybrid. Gluster is used in production by thousands of organisations across media, healthcare and government. It also serves as a platform for education, financial services, and web 2.0. Gluster scales to several petabytes and can handle thousands of clients. It is POSIX compatible and can use any ondisk storage system that supports extended attributes. It can also be accessed using industry standard protocols such as NFS and SMB and provides replication, quotas and geo-replication, snapshots, bitrot detection, and many other features.

Red Hat®, Ceph Storage is an open storage solution that can be scaled massively and simplified for modern data pipelines. Red Hat Ceph Storage is designed for data analytics, machine learning (AI/ML), emerging workloads, and other applications. It offers software-defined storage on any industry-standard hardware. You can scale to unprecedented levels of storage, up to 1,000,000 objects, and beyond, without compromising performance. No downtime required to expand or shrink storage clusters. Get the agility you need in order to get to market quicker. You can get started faster with dramatically simplified installation. With streamlined operation, monitoring and capacity management, you can quickly gain insight from large amounts of unstructured information. Integrated data protection and security features include client-side encryption and object-level encryption. This will protect your data from external threats and hardware failures. You can easily manage backup and recovery from one point of control and administration.

Consolidate your block, file and object data with an enterprise platform that provides a cloud-native user experience. IBM Storage Ceph, an enterprise storage solution, unifies file, block and object data in a single platform. This platform delivers a cloud native experience and helps organizations reduce costs.

StarWind VSAN was designed for small businesses with limited IT budgets. It draws almost 100% of your existing raw storage IOPS -- no expensive hardware required. Licenses are transparent and flexible without any hidden fees or pitfalls. StarWind Virtual SAN ensures high uptime, fault tolerance and low latency starting with two nodes. If you don't wish to have a witness, you don't need one. Even if you lose a whole node or a single storage device, HDD, or SSD, your IT environment will not slow down. You can scale up, down, and out as you need it. You can manage your HCI clusters using a single StarWind web interface. No additional cost, our engineers will help migrate your existing workload to StarWind. Our solution was specifically designed to provide enterprise-grade features to SMBs that do not have corporate budgets. StarWind VSAN doesn't require witnesses and delivers all the promised benefits in just a two-node setup.

StoneFly StoneFusion™ transforms bare metal into enterprise iSCSI SANs, NASs, S3 object stores, or a unified appliance with integrated data monitoring, storage optimization and ransomware protection. StoneFusion can also be found in Azure, AWS and StoneFly clouds.

IBM Cloud®, Object Storage and select IBM SDS products are available with unlimited access. IBM Storage Software Suite offers a unified interface for data management. The cost-per-TB pricing allows you to plan your capacity growth. The software can be used in test environments. The pricing is based on the amount of storage, not on the type or use of the storage. No licensing headaches are involved when switching from one storage type to another, or from one data type type to another. IBM Storage Software Suite has a uniform user interface that reduces user errors and training requirements. All products are designed to integrate seamlessly, allowing for worldwide support and integration.

Scality offers file and object storage to support enterprise data management deployments of any size. Scality adapts to your environment. Traditional on-prem storage? No problem. How do you store modern cloud-native apps? We've got you covered. Scality has a track record of protecting eleven 9s data and ensuring its durability for long-term protection.

FalconStor is a trusted innovator in data protection with over an Exabyte under management. This allows the most demanding enterprises around the globe to modernize data backup and archive operations across data centers, public clouds, and data centers. The company provides increased data security, rapid recovery from ransomware attacks, and lowers costs by up to 90%. FalconStor has been trusted by over 1,000 customers and a global network of partners.

Microsoft Azure StorSimple is a hybrid cloud storage solution that meets the needs for performance- and capacity-centric apps. It offers both physical arrays for deployments in datacenters as well as virtual arrays for smaller enterprises such remote or branch offices that require network-attached storage. You don't have to install or maintain expensive equipment on-premises for special projects or new ones. You can also keep all your volume data locally by using local storage to optimize performance. Manage your data growth more effectively--StorSimple can automatically archive inactive primary data from on-premises to the cloud to create effortless capacity expansion. Cloud snapshots provide off-site backup and remote replication.

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is a multi-tenant, hyperconverged infrastructure solution that meets modern IT needs. A trusted IT infrastructure solution that stores backup data and runs disaster recovery workloads in an efficient, secure, and cost-effective manner can help you reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO). This will allow you to maximize productivity and reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO). Acronis Cyber Infrastructure was optimized to work with Acronis Cyber Cloud’s suite of products for seamless operation. You can leverage a solution that suits any business model. It separates the software and hardware and offers flexible licensing options, including a pay as you go model. You can ensure that systems run smoothly and troubleshoot issues before they affect end-users and third-party systems. It's easy with built-in monitoring and management tools. Integrate Acronis CloudRAID with blockchain technology to verify data authenticity and solve data integrity problems.

Modern cloud infrastructure design has highlighted cloud native technology because of its lightweight and portability. It also allows for efficient development and operation (DevOps), which facilitates agile service deployment and business innovation. QCT validated Red Hat®, OpenShift Container Platform, and Kubernetes Platform in order to accelerate cloud-native transformation with minimal expenses. This ensures high-quality service as well as performance. QCT QxStack Cloud-Native Platform (PaaS) is a Platform as a Service solution (PaaS), built on Red Hat®, OpenShift®, Container Platform and enhanced by Intel Enhanced Platform Awareness technology (EPA). The production-ready performance-optimized solution features a Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) architecture that supports VMs and container coexistence and allows resource sharing. The solution has exceptional network performance and stability and achieves ideal CAPEX/OPEX at all stages of new technology implementation.

PowerFlex (formerly VxFlex), software-defined storage solutions allow organizations to transform their datacenter operations. PowerFlex allows for extreme flexibility, massive scaling, enterprise-class performance, and resilience while simplifying infrastructure management. PowerFlex empowers organizations with the ability to respond quickly to rapidly changing business requirements and move faster. It gives you unprecedented flexibility to deploy and scale critical workloads that are important to your business while maintaining exceptional simplicity and management. Software-first architecture unlocks massive performance, scalability and resilience. With a flexible and agile foundation, you can quickly respond to changing business requirements. You can achieve enterprise-class results with extensive automation and flawless workload execution.

VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization tool that reduces storage costs and complexity. It offers the fastest path to HCI/hybrid cloud and provides the easiest path to storage. vSAN and vSphere combine to create an integrated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). This allows you to manage storage and compute with one platform. The integrated solution improves business agility, speeds up operations, and lowers costs. This is the easiest way to future-ready hybrid cloud and HCI. Secure hyperconverged storage solutions that integrate with your hypervisor and other leading public clouds allow you to extend virtualization. Support the latest storage technology on industry standard servers to achieve a better price/performance ratio.

Stratoscale allows IT to act as an internal cloud service provider. IT can offer single-click / instant consumption of resources and managed open-source technologies and respond at the speed and speed of the public clouds. Stratoscale's multi-cloud hybrid platform delivers true infrastructure-as-a-service, ideal for DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code automation. IT can now focus on business-specific innovation, governance, and compliance by allowing single-panel monitoring and scaling all resources and services. APIs are the best way open-source technologies can be consumed. Different cloud environments offer different APIs, which can add complexity and hinder DevOps professionals from reaching their full potential. Stratoscale delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),Database-as- a-Service (DBaaS).

Your traditional storage vendors aren't going cut cost by 80% and increase performance 10X. We can. croit is the fastest growing storage software company in Europe, recognized in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Top 100 Innovator Awards in Germany. Ceph is the lowest cost storage in the world. DAOS is the fastest in the world. Choose one or the other or both. Our software-defined storage appliance installs Linux, and Ceph or DAOS in minutes, and helps you manage 40 Petabytes per administrator. We reduce days or work to minutes. We reduce incidents to near zero. We're the secret weapon you and your boss need to change the economics and the performance of your storage services.

QCT (Quanta cloud technology) STRATOS servers is a family of hyperscale, software defined data center solutions that are designed to meet the changing demands of cloud computing and storage. The STRATOS series includes a variety of server forms, including rackmount, blade and multi-node servers. This allows for flexible and customizable configurations to meet diverse deployment requirements. QCT STRATOS servers have been designed to be energy efficient, high density, scalable, and easy to use in large-scale data centers and cloud service providers. The STRATOS series features include support for the latest Intel and AMD processors, high capacity memory configurations, flexible storage options, innovative thermal management, and support for the latest Intel and AMD processors. QCT's STRATOS servers emphasize ease-of-management and integration with software defined infrastructure to facilitate IT operations.

This confluence created new requirements for HPC storage because the input/output patterns for both workloads were very different. It is happening right now. Intersect360, an independent analyst firm, found that 63% of HPC users are already running machine learning programs. Hyperion Research predicts that the growth in HPC storage spending by public sector organizations and enterprises over the next three-years will be 57% faster than that for HPC compute. Seymour Cray once stated, "Anyone can make a fast CPU." The trick is to create a fast system. Anyone can build fast file storage when it comes to AI and HPC. It is possible to create a cost-effective, scalable and fast file storage system. This is possible by embedding the most popular parallel file systems in parallel storage products from HPE that are cost-effective.

FlashSoft®, software by SanDisk, enables solid-state storage in a server (NVMe. PCIe. SAS. or SATA). This increases storage performance and is fully compatible with all SAN storage systems. The software automatically places the most frequently used data from applications on the flash device and keeps them fully synchronized with the storage. This flash solution is cost-effective and high-performance. It improves application performance, virtualization capabilities, storage efficiency, and storage efficiency without requiring any changes in existing applications or data centers processes. The typical speed is between 2 and 4X with no storage changes. Virtual host servers can handle 2X-3X as many virtual servers at the same time due to reduced storage latency. FlashSoft reduces storage overhead by serving storage traffic from the server cache.

Azure Managed Redis offers the latest Redis innovations and industry-leading availability. It also has a cost-effective Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO) that is designed for hyperscale clouds. Azure Managed Redis provides these capabilities on a trusted platform, empowering businesses with the ability to scale and optimize generative AI applications in a seamless manner. Azure Managed Redis uses the latest Redis innovations for high-performance and scalable AI applications. Its features, such as in-memory storage, vector similarity searches, and real-time computing, allow developers to handle large datasets, accelerate machine-learning, and build faster AI applications. Its interoperability to Azure OpenAI Service allows AI workloads that are ready for mission-critical applications to be faster, more scalable and more reliable.

The phenomenal growth in consumer datasphere over the past decade is now being eclipsed by exponential growth rates for business data. This presents new challenges and opportunities for cloud service providers and enterprises, and requires a fundamentally different approach to building and scaling storage infrastructure. Infinidat Elastic Data Fabric represents our vision for the evolution in enterprise storage from traditional hardware appliances to elastic data center-scale pooles of high-performance, highly-reliable, low-cost digital storage with seamless mobility within the data centre and the public cloud. The tsunami of digital transformation has created a similar problem for enterprise technologists across all industries. Traditional hardware-based storage arrays can be expensive, difficult to manage, and far too small to meet the demands of the digital age. They must evolve into software-defined on-premises enterprise storage cloud.

InfiniBox®, an enterprise storage system, delivers faster than all flash performance, multi-petabytes of capacity, and 100% availability to a wide range of mixed workloads. With guaranteed reliability and data security, Infinite Zero-impact Snapshots, reliable active/active, synchronous and asynchronous replication, flexible, software-defined quality-of-service are all standard features. Enterprise IT organizations and managed services providers can achieve their service level goals with InfiniBox while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of storage operations. Customers of Infinidat routinely consolidate entire rows from legacy enterprise storage onto one InfiniBox system. This results in a 10:1 reduction in floor tiles and network costs. InfiniBox eliminates filer sprawl and storage arrays, allowing operations and capacity planning to take advantage of the economies of scale offered by unified data center-scale storage pools.

Azure Disk Storage is designed to be used with Azure Virtual Machines (in preview), and Azure VMware Solution (in beta). It offers high-performance block storage for mission- and business-critical applications. You can confidently migrate to Azure infrastructure using four storage options: Ultra Disk Storage (Premium SSD), Standard SSD (Standard SSD), and Standard HDD (Standard HDD). This will optimize your workload's performance and costs. Get high performance with sub-millisecond latency for throughput and transaction-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, SQL Server, and Oracle. Use shared disks to run high-availability or clustered applications in the cloud. You will enjoy enterprise-grade durability and a 0% annual failure rate. Ultra Disk Storage allows you to meet demand without causing performance disruptions. Protect your data with Microsoft-managed keys, or your own, encryption.

ROBIN is the first hyper-converged Kubernetes platform in the industry for big data, databases and AI/ML. The platform offers a self-service App store experience to deploy any application anywhere. It runs on-premises in your private cloud or in public-cloud environments (AWS, Azure and GCP). Hyper-converged Kubernetes combines containerized storage and networking with compute (Kubernetes) and the application management layer to create a single system. Our approach extends Kubernetes to data-intensive applications like Hortonworks, Cloudera and Elastic stack, RDBMSs, NoSQL database, and AI/ML. Facilitates faster and easier roll-out of important Enterprise IT and LoB initiatives such as containerization and cloud-migration, cost consolidation, productivity improvement, and cost-consolidation. This solution addresses the fundamental problems of managing big data and databases in Kubernetes.

IBM and Cisco jointly developed VersaStack, which combines a wide range of converged infrastructures and software-defined technology to accelerate digital transformation. VersaStack offers new levels of efficiency, flexibility, and ease to cloud, big-data, and enterprise application deployments. You can run autonomous data centers with lower capital expenditures, operating costs, and TCO. Dynamically allocate resources from a pooled compute, network, and storage resources, either on-prem, or in the cloud. Support hybrid and ITaaS for private cloud, public cloud and on-premises deployments. VersaStack provides IT automation and flexible infrastructure that can be used in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Optimize existing storage solutions and address capacity issues with all-flash or hybrid data storage options. Support block, file, and object data.