OnApp and SolidFire Integration
For disk-intensive applications and databases hosted in cloud
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on August 30, 2013 at 2:50 pm
OnApp Ltd announced the integration
of SolidFire, Inc. all-SSD storage systems with the OnApp cloud platform.
With SolidFire and OnApp, cloud providers can provision storage performance and
capacity to customers independently, and guarantee disk performance for
individual workloads by enabling them to choose IO/s for their VMs. The
combination of guaranteed disk performance and the speed and scale offered by
SolidFire’s all-solid state architecture – with up to 7.5 million IO/s and
3.4PB available in a single cluster – enables OnApp customers to launch new performance
cloud services for disk-intensive applications and databases that would
normally rely on dedicated servers.
The integration uses the SolidFire API to enable SolidFire clusters to be
managed through the OnApp control panel. Cloud providers can specify minimum,
maximum and burst IO/s for OnApp datastores based on SolidFire, and enable
customers to select guaranteed IO/s for their hosted applications through the
OnApp control panel, in just the same way as they configure disk space, CPU,
RAM, network and other cloud resources. Billing for guaranteed IO/s is
integrated with OnApp billing plans.
"SolidFire storage is designed for
performance and scale in multi-tenant clouds, so it’s a perfect fit with OnApp
and its focus on the cloud service provider market," said Jay Prassl,
VP marketing, SolidFire. "One of the
great things about using SolidFire storage with OnApp is how easy it is for a
service provider to take our fine QoS control, and present it directly to
customers – it’s right there in the OnApp control panel. Now customers running
disk-intensive apps and databases on dedicated hardware can get the same or
better performance in an OnApp cloud – guaranteed."
SolidFire storage clusters are managed in just the same way as other forms of
storage in OnApp Cloud. Storage for VM disks is provisioned automatically
when a customer configures a VM, and customers can also use SolidFire’s cloning
feature to take VM snapshots, complementing the backup features available in
OnApp Cloud. SolidFire storage can be used with OnApp cloud alongside other
hardware and software SANs, and OnApp’s own distributed storage system.
"The OnApp platform has always
offered service providers a very broad range of storage choices, and SolidFire
is an important new option for customers who need consistent high disk
performance," said Kosten Metreweli, OnApp’s chief commercial officer.
"OnApp customers like Crucial cloud
Hosting have already shown that there is real appetite for guaranteed IO/s in
the market, and we’re looking forward to seeing what other cloud providers can
do with SolidFire, too."
Earlier this year, Australian cloud provider Crucial Cloud Hosting launched
Blaze, the first cloud service to use OnApp and SolidFire to guarantee storage
performance.
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