iXsystems iXRack Converged Rack-Scale Solution

iXsystems, Inc. announced iXRack, a converged rack-scale solution enabling customers to quickly, easily, and automatically deploy thousands of VMs in support of hyperscale business-critical applications, including scale-out, scale-up, database and object storage, virtualization, VDI and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

iXRack offers over 4X higher bandwidth and up to a 70% lower TCO than Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public cloud providers.

iXRack converged infrastructure provides data center with converged and hyperconverged computing, storage, and networking that scales from terabytes to multi-petabytes and thousands of CPU cores per rack. It leverages proven and company’s servers, Intel’s latest CPUs, and TrueNAS unified storage along with other industry components.

Thanks to its ‘building block’ architecture, iXRack does not lock into one design, letting change the infrastructure allocated to compute, storage and networking as your needs change. iXRack also does not lock any one virtualization platform, supporting Vmware Inc., KVM, XenServer and Kodiak Data Group. By using the 40GbE and 100GbE networking technologies, the performance of data-heavy applications can be over 4X higher than 10Gb public cloud solutions.

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“Many customers feel tied to the cloud because it has a perceived lower cost,” said Brett Davis, EVP, iXsystems. “In reality, customer studies have found that it is more cost-effective to host applications in their own data centers on iXsystems’ infrastructure, instead of using a public cloud, and the savings begin sooner than expected. Customers are surprised to see the TCO advantage at only one quarter of a rack of servers and then quickly scale from there.“

iXRack’s building blocks enable rapid spin-up of turnkey racks with powerful compute, storage, and networking configured to user specifications. Customers can independently add storage and compute modules as demands increase, enabling iXRack systems to be initially deployed in half the time compared with discrete off-the-shelf components. Repeatable processes reduce risk and enable businesses to grow more smoothly.

“iXRack solves IT’s challenge of data growth with a limited budget by providing a turnkey solution that is flexible, efficient, and scalable,” said Morgan Littlewood, VP, products, Kodiak Data. “Kodiak Data is teaming with iXsystems to virtualize clustered applications, such as Hadoop and Cassandra, with the performance, security, and lower TCO of private infrastructure.“