Open Source Storage Launches Compact Z1C Hybrid Platform

Open Source Storage LLC announces the compact Z1C platform and open source storage solution designed to help customers launch or evolve any storage environment flexibly and cost effectively at an SMB price point.

Consisting of industry standard commodity x86 hardware integrated with an open-source software stack, the Z1C platform is a unified software-defined storage appliance featuring the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) that delivers scalability and reliability with enterprise support and professional services hosted by the company.

Unlike other proprietary storage hardware and software licensing that forces customers to overpay for unnecessary capabilities, the company offers a licensing model on a fixed perpetual cost, providing the ability to grow the solution based on business needs without paying for additional licensing. The Z1C platform sits on top of an open source framework, which grants customers the flexibility to evolve their storage systems, effectively freeing them from proprietary vendors who may phase out as the market consolidates.

“We at Open Source Storage believe that customers should be free to choose what platforms they want to run their storage environment on,” said Patrick Willis, EVP, partnerships, Open Source Storage. “Whether your storage neds are virtualization, database, archial, streaming media, organizational shared file access, DR, or high throughput and low latency volumes, the Z1C can do it all.“

Data integrity is the basis of the design pyramid for the Z1C. It’s an ideal storage appliance for highly-available, tier one storage environments. The Z1C is scalable from terabytes to multiple petabytes and can be deployed with multiple levels of built-in redundancy. The solution delivers a multi-tiered environment under one pane of management, ultimately eliminating the need for multiple vendors and systems while still meeting all data requirements.

“We offer the Z1C in two forms: 11TB usable or 16TB usable in a high-performance RAID-10 configuration, which is perfect for hypervisors and databases. The Z1C provides around 10,000 4K IO/s with a mixed workload,” said John Sanderson, VP, solutions architect, Open Source Storage. “From a business perspective, our customers are saving time and money by only using 3U of space, less power consumption and seamless management.“

Z1C offers customers:

• A single 3U system that hosts two controller nodes with shared storage

• Highly-available storage for database and hypervisor hosts

• File system for data integrity (ZFS)

• Hybrid storage (HDD and SSD)

• Low-latency write requests

• Meets high IO/s demands for database and hypervisors

Z1C is available direct from the company with a list price of $24,000. Price discounts will be available through the month of July.