London, UK-Based Coreix Offering StorPool Software

StorPool Ltd, the distributed storage software specialist, announced that managed hosting, co-location and network services provider Coreix Limited is using its software for its new public cloud platform.

By implementing StorPool, Coreix is able to offer its customers a performing storage solution that starts at more than 300,000 IO/s and can grow to over one million sustained IO/s and 2PB of scale.

London-based Coreix provides hosting solutions to more than 600 customers in sectors that span financial services, government, oil and manufacturing. Each customer has a different requirement, so the Coreix team offers tailored hardware and software solutions ranging from single dedicated servers to managed multi-server clusters, public and private cloud services.

Coreix’s customers are demanding: their technologies require performance and assured availability. Its existing storage was struggling with the increasing need for speed and reliability. It was slow and prone to outages. When the IT team started to develop a new public cloud platform for its expanding customer base, they needed a storage solution that could offer higher performance as well as the flexibility to scale out when needed.

StorPool’s software-defined storage systems scale well beyond 1PB in a single cluster with a sustained performance of millions of IO/s and throughput of tens of GB/s per cluster. The distributed storage software’s standard use of two CPU cores, 8GB RAM and 0.2ms latency make it the prime solution for companies building clouds. The Coreix team initially installed StorPool software onto six servers to provide performance, cost effective storage solutions for its public cloud customers; following this installation, Coreix will deploy StorPool to serve its hybrid and private cloud customers too.

Coreix technical director Paul Davies said: “StorPool has helped us to provide a better service for our customers. As our demands grew, and as our customers’ expectations increased, our existing storage solution simply couldn’t cope. Now we’re confident that StorPool will grow with us, and that together we’ll be able to rise to any storage challenge we face.“

StorPool CEO Boyan Ivanov said: “The adoption of software-defined storage is starting to see a marked increase across a wide spectrum of sectors. That’s because people are beginning to understand what intelligent SDS can really do in terms of speed, reliability and cost. StorPool is at the forefront of this trend, and our work with Coreix shows what can be achieved with a well-designed solution, starting small and growing as needed.“