Yottabyte Rolls Out yStor 2.1 for Cloud Building Infrastructure

Yottabyte
LLC. announced yStor
2.1, the last version of its software platform.

It is the cloud-aware software
storage platform which enables business to build their own cloud
environments with data protection features on commodity hardware.

The company provides the software for a
price as low as a fraction of one cent per GB/month.

It is designed for companies that want
to build private, public or hybrid cloud infrastructures with data in
multiple locations while keeping it protected and synchronized. Aimed
at large enterprise and mid-market businesses looking to build large
data archives, distributed storage systems, or enterprise storage
arrays that can be managed by an IT generalist.

"Takata Corp. has nearly 30
production, R&D and sales centers throughout North America, and
it is essential that our TBs of data are protected with regular
backups that permit efficient restoration procedures for DR while
enabling us to meet stringent automotive industry regulations,"
said Charles Custard, IT manager, information security management at
Takata. "Our previous vendors could not scale to meet our
data needs. Yottabyte’s managed hybrid cloud solution is based on
vendor-neutral software-defined storage software; providing an
all-in-one, streamlined solution that allows us to administer backups
internally at a department level, and send long-term backup data to
Yottabyte’s cloud which greatly eases the burden on our staff and
resources."

The service operates within a software
construct, separating the configuration from the physical resources.
For example, companies can provision a virtual SAN or virtual NAS
with commodity hardware through a web-based UI, avoiding proprietary
hardware setup and minimizing the time to deliver service. These
infrastructures can be defined and optimized in the software for
performance or capacity use cases.

It makes implementation of enterprise storage functionality
a routine matter of defining each data protection feature, capability
or resource:

• Data de-dupe:
  Maximize capacity utilization

• Data protection:
  Configure and schedule backup and restore operations in combination
  with snapshot and synchronization capabilities across the distributed
  storage infrastructure

• Scalability: Scale storage
  capacity or performance resources at will as user requirements grow

• Configurable QoS/Tiered Storage:
  Ensure the data performance requirements are matched with the most
  appropriate resources

• Multi-Protocol Access: Multiple
  ways to access the same data such as web browser and network share
  protocols

"Yottabyte’s mission is to
simplify and automate IT systems by creating a software data center
model that achieves the potential of all cloud architectures for
computing. storage is the center of our technology, our data center
software platform allows the virtualization of storage, compute and
networking resources to allow data and operations to move seamlessly
in the data center and between data centers, regardless of the
underlying hardware resources with minimal configuration,"
said Greg Campbell, VP of technology of Yottabyte. "We show
people that without having to use expensive and complicated hardware
and software, they can build robust cloud computing environments
using commodity equipment and smart software while maintaining that
infrastructure with general IT skills."

YStor 2.1 is available as a
managed
service or software license:

• For managed cloud storage services,
  yStor costs 1.5 cents per GB of data on disk per month.

• For software licenses, customers can
  expect to pay between $240 and $450 per TB for licenses ranging
  from 8TB to 1PB of capacity with 1 year of standard support,
  which breaks down to as little as 0.65 cents per GB/month.

• Yottabyte Community Edition is
  available to evaluate for free