Cloud scale Enterprise Storage

Stacbloc SDS enables Enterprises to run a secure multi-faceted storage environment that stores large volume of structured and unstructured data. Using storage as a software coded component enables customers to rightly couple with cloud & virtualized compute managed by DevOps.

Paradigm shift from hardware controllers to Intelligent software programs

Freedom

Scale out

Node based scale out architecture

Elastic

Flexible

Dynamic need based provisioning

Untangle

x86 Architecture

Get rid of Proprietary hardware ties

Holistic

Unified Storage

Block, File, Object

High performance

Parallel access

Multi node distributed access

Reliable

Redundancy

Multiple data copies, no loss

Virtualized environments, Cloud run high density Virtual Machines and Containers. Storage needs of these environments are multifaceted.

Performance – To provide seamless end-user experience and to meet application demands, higher IOPS and throughput are mandatory.

Scalability – Ability to scale inline with growth of compute infrastructure, to multiple orders in sizes.

Agility – Dynamically spin up storage, as and when compute requires with no hard limits.

Software Defined Storage is built ground up to meet ever dynamic needs of virtualized environments.

Reliability

Prevent Data Loss

SDS stripes data across multiple disks, nodes in cluster with configurable multiple copies of data with replication. Data is redundantly saved, providing higher reliability.

High Availability

SDS is built with redundancy at all services level to provide a continual service. No single element failure affects Storage availability.

Self healing

In the misfortune event of any disk or node failure, SDS automatically rebalances data across cluster. This ensures that storage cluster is always maintained at healthy state

Efficiency

Space consumption

SDS uses thin provisioning while writing data to cluster. Not all the storage capacity requested by compute is provisioned during initial stage, storage grows as writes happen.

Linked data

Linked Copy on Write Clones provides reuse data. When provisioned for VMs, parent storage is reused for all cloned VMs, incremental data alone is created.

Service levels

Class of Service be built for data retention, replica, disk type, location pinning. Allows customers to use storage for various profiles like production, archive, backup.

High Performance

Parallel access

SDS provides storage object location map to clients. Clients make parallel read, write access to cluster without a central lookup, resulting in high performance.

Wide stripe

SDS spreads data across multiple disks and nodes in a cluster. Data access is spread across cluster simultaneously, provides high storage throughput.

All Flash

All flash SDS systems built with SSD in cluster, provides IOPS multiple orders higher than spinning drives. Suited for high density virtualized systems like Cloud.

Scalability

Scale out

SDS supports scale out architecture, grows in capacity from few TB to PB, from few nodes to hundreds of nodes, without needing forklift upgrades or migrations.

Geo Zones

SDS scales across geographies with global clusters. SDS enables Business Continuity Planning policies with multisite replication for disaster recovery or archival

Multi size objects

SDS supports multiple object sizes, unified block, file, object access, provides a scalable storage backend for all data warehousing types like OLTP, OLAP, data lakes.

Programmable

Integration

RESTful API integration allows Enterprise Software applications to interact with SDS for all CRUD operations and external management with control

Automation compatible

Being software driven solution, SDS can be automated with DevOps tools like CI CD. Storage provisioning, snapshot, backup, off site movement can be automated.

Management

SDS provides granular and holistic view of Storage at disk, node, pool, cluster level. Dashboard reporting of performance, utilization are built in.