Amax StorMax Software-Defined Storage Appliance

Amax Information Technologies Inc. announced StorMax SDS, a software-defined storage solution enabling customers to transform their storage infrastructure, increasing flexibility and agility, simplifying management, and reducing storage infrastructure costs without compromising on availability, reliability or functionality.

StorMax SDS is a highly available software-designed storage solution that delivers unified file and block storage services with enterprise-grade data management, data integrity, and performance that can scale from tens of terabytes to petabytes.

Integrated with NexentaStor, the plug and play appliances are designed to be a simple swap-in replacement of legacy block and file storage appliances, offering unlimited file system sizes, unlimited snapshots and clones, and inline data reduction for additional storage cost savings. The StorMax SDS is for VMWare/OpenStack/CloudStack backend storage, generic NAS file services, home directory storage, and near-line archive and large-scale backup repositories.

StorMax SDS appliances are available as all-flash, all-HDD, and hybrid configurations in a 2U/2Node form factor scaling up to 92TB of storage raw capacity, as well as a 4U/2Node appliance scaling up to 560TB.

The solution is compatible with major OSs such as Microsoft, VMware, Ubuntu, Docker, Red Hat and OpenStack.

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Appliances support enterprise workloads in both physical and virtual infrastructure including:

• Databases and transactional enterprise applications

• VMs/virtual desktops

• Enterprise file servers

• High performance digital media applications

• Cloud backend

• NFS/block backup

• Large-scale archive repositories

“There’s a need across enterprises of all sizes and verticals for cost-effective, feature rich storage solutions that excel in both performance and reliability,” said James Huang, product marketing manager, Amax. “By developing a storage line that pairs rock solid hardware platforms with a software that has a long track record of success, Amax hopes to provide companies with a practical alternative to scaling their storage infrastructure with the most operational freedom.“

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