Silicon Mechanics Integrates SwiftStack to Hardware Architecture

Silicon
Mechanics, Inc. is providing hardware integration services for
SwiftStack, Inc.

With this collaboration the company is
helping organizations deploy a heterogeneous storage infrastructure
that is not just API-compatible with public cloud storage, but
architecturally identical and less expensive.

The two companies are working together
to configure the private cloud storage with a vendor-neutral hardware
platform that meets customers’ performance requirements and
deployment schedule.

"Customer interest has been
strong and there is great synergy between the two companies, as we
each focus on our strengths and expertise," said Tim Groen,
Silicon Mechanics’ Acsales manager. "Both companies share a
strong customer service focus, which makes the proof of concept,
production, testing, and deployment phases go very smoothly."

Customer support is provided with
SwiftStack monitoring the systems and mobilizing the right resources
to resolve issues, providing a transition between software and
hardware diagnosis, troubleshooting, and any needed onsite repairs.

SwiftStack is based on OpenStack Swift,
an open-source storage platform that was created for heavy use and
unstructured data. SwiftStack provides a management system de-coupled
from any specific hardware, which enables customers to achieve
flexibility on how and where they deploy their storage. The solution
allows customers to achieve private storage at costs that are lower
than public cloud prices.

"It’s great to collaborate with
Silicon Mechanics and help joint customers take advantage of our
flexible private cloud storage on hardware offered from Silicon
Mechanics," said Joe Arnold, CEO, SwiftStack. "Our
combined technologies will enable clients to add newer, faster,
denser and less expensive components to expand performance and
capacity as needed, rather than being locked in to the typical
three-year upgrade cycle of proprietary hardware." He adds,
"By decoupling the hardware and software, customers now have
control over how storage is scaled and managed, and how users can
store and access data. Even more beneficial, this can be managed for
the entire storage tier, independent of where the storage resources
are deployed."