Yottabyte yStor 2.3 Software

Yottabyte LLC announced yStor 2.3, its software platform.

Underpinning yStor 2.3 is a distributed and deduplicated file system, Yottabyte File System and Yottabyte’s virtual SAN technology. It is the cloud-aware storage platform which enables businesses to build their own cloud environments with data protection features scale-out building block appliances.

Price is one cent per gigabyte per month.

It is designed for companies that want to build scalable storage infrastructures with information in multiple locations while keeping it protected and synchronized. 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 should consider yStor.

“Our company has nearly 30 production, R&D and sales centers throughout North America, and it is essential that our terabytes of data are protected with regular backups that permit efficient restoration procedures for DR while enabling us to meet stringent automotive industry regulations,” said the IT manager at a global automotive supplier. “Our previous vendors could not scale to meet our data needs. Yottabyte’s co-hosted hybrid cloud solution provides 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 already reduced staff and resources.“

Creating a Software-Defined Storage Solution
The software operates within a software construct, separating the configuration from the physical resources. For example, companies can provision a virtual NAS through a web-based user interface, avoiding proprietary hardware setup and minimizing the time to deliver service. These infrastructures can be defined and optimized in the software for flash-based performance or HDD capacity use cases.

Further extending the value of software-defined storage, it makes implementation of enterprise storage functionality a routine matter of defining each data protection feature, capability or resource:

• Dedupe: 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-out storage capacity or performance resources at will as user requirements grow and change

• Encryption: Data encryption at rest and / or in-flight

• 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 all business requirements today and in the future via our flexible software-based architecture. 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 with minimal configuration,” said Greg Campbell, VP of technology, Yottabyte. “We show people that without having to use expensive and complicated systems, they can build robust cloud computing environments using affordable equipment and smart software while maintaining that infrastructure with general IT skills.“

The solution is available as a monthly co-hosted, on-premise service or as a scale-out building block appliance. For cloud storage services, it costs $0.15 cents/GB of data on disk per month. Scale-out building blocks range from remote office configurations with 4TB of storage, up to archive building blocks exceeding 360TB each.