Atrato Velocity1000 Combines Hundreds of 2.5-inch Disks With Data Acceleration and No Need to Replace Failed HDDs

Atrato, Inc.,
a provider of high-volume on-demand storage for the high
performance computing (HPC), digital entertainment and web sectors,
announced the company’s first product,
the Atrato Velocity1000 (V1000) storage system. The V1000
delivers advancements in storage to assist data centers and IT
departments who are struggling to keep up with spiraling data growth and
ever more performance demanding applications. Atrato’s
system conquers I/O bottlenecks between storage and servers, opening the
door to new applications and revenue opportunities via a platform that
delivers optimal performance in a cost-effective space and power
efficient package. 

One of the most pressing issues challenging IT environments is not the
amount of available storage, but rather the speed at which the stored
data can be accessed. Atrato’s V1000 is a
high-density storage system that combines hundreds of identical disks
and integrates advanced data acceleration features to deliver more than
11,000 IOPS in random read/writes and 50 Terabytes of storage in a 3U
space.

"For today’s demanding applications, typical storage systems often fall
short," said Russ Fellows, Senior Analyst with Evaluator Group. "IT
managers often have to choose between reliability, performance, power
consumption and cost. With Atrato’s new Velocity1000, they get
performance that outpaces much larger systems, all in a self healing,
dense form factor that costs far less to own and operate. This truly is
storage for the Web 2.0 world."

“Our mission is to significantly and
continuously improve performance of any application where storage I/O
bottlenecks impede overall system performance, security or scalability,”
said Dan McCormick, co-founder and CEO, Atrato Inc. “IT
managers assume that by adding rack units, they will get the increased
IOPS needed. The reality is that over allocating not only fails to
deliver the expected performance gains but also adds costly power and
space intensive overhead to the data center.”

Atrato’s V1000 has several key differentiators
that make it ideal for HPC, digital entertainment and web applications.
Central to the system is its Self-maintaining Array of Identical Disks
(SAID) which provides a hardened and secure form factor while
simultaneously achieving reliable operation at low cost and low power
dissipation. The 3U SAID delivers from 25.6 to 50 Terabytes of storage
capacity.

Performance Density
The V1000 changes the economics of high-speed, high-volume I/O
processing with the ability to handle over 11,000 IOPS and 3,600
standard definition simultaneous data streams. In addition, it offers
ten times the performance of competitive solutions and scales in a
linear fashion as each new array is added. As a result, businesses can
access data quicker to make more intelligent decisions, and deploy and
support applications that rely on fast access to large data and rich
media files.

Total Cost of Ownership
The design of Atrato’s system offers several
cost advantages. Possessing a smaller footprint than the traditional
industry standards, the Atrato system saves more than fifty percent of
regular operating costs and uses eighty percent less power than current
solutions. As companies look to manage their storage growth or implement
a greener data center, Atrato’s technology
provides unprecedented savings in dollars per watt and dollars per IOPS,
and allows users to scale using their existing infrastructure.

Zero Maintenance
With data-on-demand moving to the forefront of enterprise requirements,
availability becomes paramount to system performance. The V1000 system
supports RAID 5, 6, 10 and 50 and integrates virtualization software to
eliminate any single point of failure. The V1000 takes this a step
further by solidifying the system with its unique fault detection,
isolation and recovery advantage, featuring predictive failure and
auto-rebuild disk management.

Atrato’s V1000 storage system is now
available.

Atrato Inc.