Astute Networks SSD Appliance Supporting Openstack

Astute Networks, Inc. announced its support of OpenStack, an open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds.

By supporting the Cinder standard as both an iSCSI target and a NFS server, the ViSX appliance offers end users and cloud service providers alike a flexible method for meeting their storage and application performance requirements when deploying IaaS.

A recent report by 451 Research, titled, OpenStack-related business revenue to exceed $1 billion by 2015, predicts OpenStack-related revenue will grow from $600 million in 2013 to $1 billion by 2015. The company is positioned to address this opportunity with its adaptive ViSX storage appliances that accelerate application performance by 10x or more, enhances user productivity and lowers IT costs for physical, virtual and cloud environments. 

Applications such as virtualized databases, SharePoint and VDI have demanding I/O performance characteristics that legacy storage architectures were never designed to support. The ViSX performance storage appliance was built to address these I/O-intensive applications. It eliminates all I/O bottlenecks that affect application and VDI performance and delivers random IO/s performance and IO/s per dollar.

It delivers advantages for CSPs to offer their customers a datastore tier of networked flash to performance-constrained environments to enhance user productivity and lower IT costs. It provides a way to deploy solid state flash storage. It deploys in minutes with no application changes and no disruptive rip and replace, or forklift upgrades for installed servers and storage.

“We see that OpenStack is developing significant momentum with the many organizations that understand the tremendous value of this project, and we know that our ViSX appliance will help these organizations capitalize on this value with high performance flash based storage for their private and public cloud initiatives,” said Keith Klarer, founder and VP of engineering, Astute Networks. “OpenStack deployments for VDI and for relational database consolidation are two applications in which users can see an immediate and meaningful ROI by deploying our flash storage systems. There is also significant interest in our flash storage when implementing object database systems in environments that need high object access performance, or low access latency.“