Coho Data DataStream 2.8 to Make Software-Defined Data Center a Reality

Coho Data, Inc. announced DataStream 2.8, helping to make the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) a reality by delivering the simplicity, elastic scale and economics of the public cloud to the enterprise private cloud.

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This architecture release incorporates features that address many of the elements required by enterprises to set up a private cloud on-premise with significant reductions in TCO. DataStream 2.8 is a solution available that can natively run file and block storage and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) on the same platform with multi-tenancy, QoS and container support.

“At Colony Networks, we are trying to improve our data center utilization to scale further, meeting our workload demands. This is where Coho comes in and is the key. We were able to move our existing workloads to Coho without changing any of the code while seeing about 40% increase in performance,” said Michael Kuhlmann, president and CEO, Colony Networks, Inc. “Today, we are ingesting a large amount of device monitoring probe and Wi-Fi session information that needs to be crunched. With the Coho DataStream 2.8 release, we can now run elastic search and other micro-services in a container directly on storage, allowing us to build new value added software features and enhance our customers’ experience using our software.“

Delivering simplicity, elastic scale and economics to enterprise private cloud
As modern, information-centric applications accelerate data growth, inflexible legacy infrastructure now requires more capital and operational expense than the value these applications create. To address this challenge, the DataStream platform offers an integrated SDDC solution that uses the rack as its design paradigm, creating a new foundational software stack that is better equipped to run, manage and optimize data center operations. The firm makes infrastructure invisible by abstracting and converging storage, network and compute at the rack level, thereby allowing for the right mix of resources for varied application demands. Company’s Software-Defied Networking (SDN) integration delivers scale out storage performance, secure multi-tenancy, operational simplicity, and ease of management.

DataStream 2.8 user benefits:

• Any workload, single platform – Unifying multiple workloads on the same platform in a simple way is a critical requirement for SDDC. This release expands firm’s portfolio with the addition of HDFS support. With this, it now provides simple, native support of file, block and HDFS, allowing customers to deploy and unify different workloads with different service level objectives on a single, scalable, high-performance platform.

• System QoS policies – This release also allows end users to securely control multiple tenants on the same platform while meeting tenant-specific service levels. SDN integration, coupled with this QoS capability, offers network, storage and performance characteristics to be securely isolated while meeting desired service levels. In consolidated storage environments, production workloads can now be protected against noisy neighbors.

• Big Data and Containers as a Service (BDaaS/CaaS) – A year ago, the company announced support for containers running Hadoop workloads by offering an automated way to orchestrate, deploy and manage containers directly on its storage nodes. This offers customers easier management with added control, by moving the compute closer to the data to support DevOps-centric management of customers’ data center resources. With DataStream 2.8, it has expanded its container support beyond just Hadoop – while adding QoS capabilities – that isolate tenant workloads, which is a requirement for offering BDaaS/CaaS in a private cloud environment. As a result, IT organizations can now help negate sprawl and streamline consolidation.

“Today’s enterprises are struggling with how to improve the simplicity, elastic scale and economics of their data centers to meet their ever-growing application deployment requirements,” said Scott Sinclair, senior analyst, ESG. “Coho Data’s rack-scale approach to network integration, workload unification, multi-tenancy/QoS and containers-as-a-service has the potential to deliver significant TCO savings to enterprises while leveraging the IT model they are used to where storage and server teams get to focus on what they do best.“

“Cloud computing will continue advancing, which will place new demands on enterprise data centers to keep up in areas such as ease of management, added control over the data and data center sprawl,” said Ramana Jonnala, founder and CEO, Coho Data. “In this spirit, we feel our new Coho DataStream 2.8 release provides our customers with many of the core components of a software-defined data center in a single platform that addresses their future, critical needs around consolidation, the rapid growth of data and operational simplicity.“