Pivot3 Adding Policy-Driven Data Protection Capabilities to Dynamic QoS

Pivot3, Inc. has extended the capabilities of its patented Dynamic QoS software to include policy-driven data protection capabilities.

Dynamic QoS engine allows companies to guarantee both the performance and protection of their mission-critical applications through the use of simple, pre-configured policies and automated application prioritization.

The software’s QoS capabilities include data protection, application integration, scheduling, and performance enhancements to the existing QoS capabilities of the company’s flash arrays, providing customers more automation and flexibility in how they guarantee SLAs for critical business applications.

With the recently-announced firm’s vSTAC SLX systems, customers are also able to confidently deploy multiple mixed-application workloads on hyperconverged infrastructure and experience the benefits of guaranteed performance and data protection, simplified deployment and improved economics.

With data protection QoS, customers can simply define policies specifying snapshot, replication and retention and apply them to volumes or groups of volumes. The addition of QoS scheduling capabilities lets customers set pre-defined schedules for both performance and data protection policies, allowing them to change automatically at pre-determined times. By automating policy changes, IT can support the business with greater agility as application priorities and workloads change.

“By eliminating contention issues, Pivot3’s QoS has allowed us to improve the performance of our most critical member-facing systems, such as online banking,” said Chris Visocnik, director, IT, Consumers Credit Union. “Now with the addition of data protection QoS, we have the option of simplifying and automating our data protection policies for mission-critical and member-facing credit union applications.“

The data protection QoS capabilities integrate with Windows applications, VMware ESX and Hyper-V VMs. This further extends firm’s QoS integration with VMware Virtual Volumes (VVol) and Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM), as well as integrated management with QoS Manager for VMware vCenter Server to simplify granular VM-level management.

“IT organizations are pushing to consolidate multiple application workloads onto common infrastructures to reduce their capital and operating expenses,” said Ahmad Chamseddine, VP and chief operations officer, Pivot3. “Customers need guaranteed performance and data protection in line with their business priorities, which is why we’re continuing to innovate with QoS and hyperconvergence. This is another step in the development and integration of the Pivot3 and NexGen Storage technology sets following our recent acquisition as we move toward achieving the software-defined data center.“

The QoS capabilities are available with vSTAC SLX Hyperconverged and N5 Flash Storage systems through company’s authorized resellers and to firm’s customers on support contracts.