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Pivot3 Rolls Out All-flash Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution

To provide maximum IO/s

Pivot3, Inc. announced the availability of its new hyper-converged all-flash enterprise appliance.

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The need for all-flash HCI solutions is growing exponentially as enterprises look to enhance the ability of IT to flexibly support new business initiatives and maximize the efficiency of servers dedicated to powering demanding workloads.

Pivot3’s new all-flash HCI appliances are designed to provide maximum IO/s for high-performance applications while reducing the cost and complexity of legacy separate server and storage systems. The offering from Pivot3 introduces a modular, cost-effective way to scale data centers with the cloud-like benefits of pay-as-you-grow flexibility.

Through vSTAC’s global hyper-converged architecture, customers get close-to-the-metal performance that eliminates high-cost ingredients like FC. By maintaining coherent caching and storage across all nodes in the array, Pivot3 automatically load-balances performance-sensitive workloads like virtual desktops, analytics and other latency-sensitive virtualized workloads.

Competitive offerings overwhelmingly feature replication-based data protection, which results in very little usable storage after copies are made,” says Francois Wolf, CMO, Pivot3. “Due to the premium price of flash technology, businesses need to maximize the amount of flash storage and IO/s available for workloads such as VDI deployments and other demanding applications. Pivot3’s hyper-converged all-flash appliances provide more performance per appliance, which translates into savings for customers.”

The Pivot3 all-flash high-performance offering joins an array of high-capacity systems offering a way for customers to combine different Pivot3 HCI appliances through a central management system. Pivot3 offers a range of rack, blades, hybrid and all-flash options to accommodate customer workloads.

The new appliance is powered by Pivot3’s patented global hyper-convergence technology, which creates a homogeneous pool of SSD resources across appliances in the array to maximize performance of any application. For example, when combined with the high IO/s of flash drives, the all-flash hyper-converged appliances support more than two times the workload hosting of competing offerings, resulting in lower TCO for businesses across user categories.

Patented Scalar Erasure Coding gives HCI technology the ability to yield up to 94% usable storage, rendering it suited to provide maximum efficiency from premium all-flash technology. Pivot3’s storage efficiency makes migrating to an all-flash infrastructure economically viable. Using a flash-based array, enterprises can realize long-term cost savings while ensuring seamless scalability as operational needs grow. HCI technology based on Scalar Erasure Coding allows users of Dell’s SSD-based servers to get maximum performance, higher processing availability and lowers the total cost of operations.

Pivot3’s global hyper-converged platform, vSTAC OS, can be customized and scaled depending on the size of the IT infrastructure, allowing administrators to set capacity levels, performance settings, and availability requirements. Other hyper-converged solutions are only ‘local’ in the sense that they allow VMs to access resources efficiently only on the server where they reside, and use replication and deduplication for data integrity and storage capacity which consumes available space and processing capacity.

Pivot3 has architected a solution that is optimized to conserve compute power, requiring less overhead thus leaving more cycles to power demanding workloads. vSTAC OS can function efficiently using 6% of local resources, preserving all remaining resources for running workloads chosen by the user. This translates to more useable system resources for a lower cost per VM.

Performance is the driving factor for the vast majority of companies considering a solid-state storage array,” said Ron Pugh, executive director/GM, Dell, Inc.‘s OEM Solutions. “Pivot3’s all-flash hyper-converged appliance creates future-ready enterprises with more usable storage and compute performance to power applications, as well as a higher performance value.”

Pivot3’s announcement of all-flash HCI Enterprise appliances completes the hyper-converged product line which now includes hybrid, all-flash, blade, and data appliances.

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