Gridstore Launches Software-Defined Storage Solution

Gridstore, Inc. announced early access for Gridstore 3.0, a software-defined storage (SDS) solution, architected to deliver improved application performance and True QoS in a pay-as-you-scale format.

It is a storage solution for both performance (hybrid caching) as well as capacity storage challenges. With 3.0, Gridstore addresses the architectural disconnect between traditional storage and virtualized servers, the critical issue to deliver application performance in a Hyper-V environment at an affordable price point with scalability.

“It is well known by now that server virtualization plays havoc on traditional storage architectures, negatively impacting application performance. The industry has reacted with a variety of solutions, from modifying traditional architectures to all-flash arrays, and everything in between. Gridstore has taken a disruptive approach whereby they detect and sort IO at the VM level before committing data to storage. Combined with a Scale Out architecture they address many of the issues holding customers back from going wholesale into the software defined datacenter,” said Arun Taneja, founder and senior analyst, The Taneja Group.

“As an MSP we needed to update our data protection infrastructure to accommodate our ever-increasing virtualized environment. We chose Veeam for the software, and Gridstore for the backup-to-disk hardware,” said Lawrence Guyot, president, Empowerment through Technology & Education, Inc. (ETTE) “Because it is a pay-as-you-scale solution, it has allowed us to meet or exceed our original cost and performance goals. In the future, if backups start running long, we will simply add another backup server, and as our volume of data grows, because of Gridstore’s parallel performance scaling, we can easily add storage nodes to accommodate this growth.”

Gridstore 3.0 was designed to accelerate applications in virtual environments. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all storage, it leverages their patented Server-Side Virtual Controller Technology (SVCT) to eliminate the I/O blender and accelerate application I/O in three ways.

1. Custom-fit storage accelerators adapt to the applications data patterns to accelerate performance for every application in the virtual environment.
2. TrueQoS is an end-to-end Storage QoS and guarantees the performance of the most important applications.
3. GridScale delivers massively parallel performance that scales without performance loss.

With solutions for both capacity and hybrid storage, Gridstore 3.0 delivers the an end-to-end software-defined storage solution. Easy to manage, these solutions fit into Windows architecture appearing like local HDDs to the OS.:

Admins manage the storage with the tools they are used to and in a manner they do today
Existing scripts continue to work
Easy to expand the size of virtual drives

Focused on Hyper-V and WS2012, 3.0 is designed for the mid-size enterprise. Gridstore 3.0 is available in both hybrid and capacity models, providing the solution for optimizing virtualized application performance. It is available through the Early Access Program (EAP) in 4TB and 12TB node configurations with a minimum of 3 nodes required.

MSRP for Hybrid storage, 12TB node is $21,000.
MSRP for Capacity storage, 12TB node is $12,050.