Plexistor Introduces Software-Defined Memory Platform

Start-up Plexistor Ltd. announced the availability of its next-generation data center platform based on the Software Defined Memory (SDM) architecture, converging memory and storage technologies to deliver persistent high capacity storage at near-memory speed.

Both large enterprises and smaller businesses will benefit from company’s data center platform by reducing in-memory applications infrastructure complexity and improving efficiency by up to 500%. Firm’s SDM supports both traditional enterprise applications (e.g. MySQL) and next-generation applications, such as in-memory databases, NoSQL, big data analytics, and complex event processing that challenge traditional compute and storage resources.

Company’s initial benchmarking results have shown powerful performance improvements in new and traditional applications, including:

• MongoDB performance by 450% without sacrificing data persistency

• SQL database latency reduced by 24x

• Multi-threaded FIO performance was 210 times faster

Firm’s converged SDM solution provides IT departments with the ability to run both in-memory and traditional enterprise applications on a single infrastructure, without dedicated clusters, simplifying the data center architecture and management and reducing costs. It also allows users to leverage new and upcoming memory and storage technologies like volatile DRAM and emerging Non-Volatile memory devices such as NVDIMM-N and 3D XPoint as well as traditional flash storage devices such as NVMe and the upcoming NVMe over Fabric.

Company’ SDM offers value in environments such as digital advertising, log analysis, personalization, financial applications, cyber security, and DevOps, where I/O bottlenecks and latency have severe operational impacts.

“Plexistor’s SDM approach closes the gap between high-latency disk and SSD solutions, and low-capacity RAM and cache products, by providing a direct data path from the application to the memory storage device,” said David Floyer, CTO and cofounder, Wikibon. “Plexistor has introduced an in-memory compute and storage architecture using NVM, which eliminates bottlenecks often found in the storage stack that prohibit or strangle performance for enterprise applications.“

“Rather than complicate infrastructures, SDM provides a powerful tool to benefit new and legacy computing tasks, from traditional databases to application development to extremely latency-sensitive transaction processing,” said Sharon Azulai, CEO, Plexistor. “Our SDM platform delivers relief for enterprises facing problems of cost, complexity, and latency: it is affordable, it is simple to roll out, and it is orders of magnitude better than any alternative.“

The software solution is available for both on-premise and cloud-based deployment on Amazon AWS. Download a free community edition.