Mellanox Powers DataON

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that its ConnectX-3 10/40Gb RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and 56Gb IB NICs power DataON Storage‘s Cluster-in-a-Boxhttp://www.dataonstorage.com/# (CiB) appliances.

CiB-9470

This collaboration provides Microsoft customers with improved I/O, hot tiered storage performance, higher efficiency at a low latency and with CapEx and OpEx savings.

Capabilities of the joint solution will be demonstrated live May 12-15, in the DataON Storage booth at the Microsoft TechEd North America 2014 Conference, George R Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX.

“DataON Storage introduced us to the low-latency, high throughput technology from Mellanox,” said Rechi Relatores, system architect, Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd. “By combining the Microsoft certified solution from DataON Storage and the ConnectX-3 network adapters, we’re able to achieve a scalable solution with exceptional efficiency and storage density.”

DataON’s Windows Server 2012 R2 certified CiB storage system provides scalable shared tiered storage capacity, lower power, and ease of deployment in a low TCO resilient footprint. When coupled with Mellanox RDMA-enabled I/O adaptors, the CiB appliance enables SMBs to maximize ROI by consolidating hardware costs, simplifying deployments and providing resiliency, while at the same time delivering economical scalable storage with networking performance and resource efficiency.

“Windows Server 2012 R2 includes groundbreaking networking functionality called SMB Direct, which supports the use of network adapters that have RDMA capability,” said Jose Barreto, principal PM manager, cloud and enterprise, Microsoft Corp. “The partnership between DataON Storage and Mellanox has potential to deliver impressive end-to-end storage and networking performance improvements.”

The Mellanox-supported DataON CiB appliance utilizes the server failover and resiliency features of Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces to achieve HA dual-node clustering with shared storage capacity.

Currently shipping in two variants, the CiB-9220 12-bay 2U is purpose-built for Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) deployments and the dense CiB-9470 with up to 420TB capacity in a 4U enclosure, requiring 75% less rack space than legacy storage.

With a power savings of more than 30%, the solution delivers IT datacenter administrators a cost-effective private cloud appliance solution.

“DataON Storage has a strong history of working closely with software-defined storage communities,” said Trenton R. Baker, VP business development, DataON. “We’re excited to now bring the DataON CiB platform leveraging RDMA enabled adapters from Mellanox to the software-defined Windows Server 2012 R2 community, by providing the optimal throughput needed for successful auto-tiering storage deployments.”

Mellanox offers end-to-end latency and infrastructure flexibility with adapters supporting RoCE. RDMA technology offloads data transport to free up CPU for virtualized networks, data intensive cloud applications and data analytics. Mellanox RDMA-enabled IB and Ethernet interconnects provide a high-performance and cost effective solution that scales with the DataON CiB platform, leveraging RDMA offloading with SMB Direct to accelerate data access and provide the throughput needed to satisfy high IO/s SSD devices present in Windows Server 2012 R2 hot data tiering.