Atlantis Computing Assigned Patent

Atlantis Computing, Inc., provider of in-memory software-defined storage, was awarded a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its approach to content-aware I/O processing.

This patent anchors the foundation for Atlantis ILIO’s in-memory storage optimization software, delivering reductions in storage traffic and capacity as well as a boost in performance for any virtual workload.

Validation for content-aware, real-time I/O processing
This new content-aware I/O processing patent validates the approach that Atlantis Computing implemented using intelligent software to solve the expensive performance and capacity challenges of storage in virtual environments. Generic caching technologies cannot deliver the foundation for real-time intelligent decision making needed to optimize performance and capacity. Atlantis ILIO in-memory storage optimization delivers a set of efficient data services that are automatically and transparently applied to any virtual environment to optimize how storage is consumed by any VM. They include content-aware IO processing, inline de-duplication and real-time compression – all with microsecond latencies.

Delivers data services to any hypervisor, any server, any storage tier
Atlantis ILIO is available for vSphere, Hyper-V, and Xenserver. It is transparent to both the VM and the underlying storage. There are no agents required and no modifications needed, and installation and configuration are fully automated. It optimizes both the capacity and performance of any class of storage in the virtual datacenter. It can reduce the amount of storage needed by a VM by up to 90% – placing more VMs on a storage backend – while boosting the performance of the environment. Enterprises can now achieve more with their existing storage investments and budgets.

Proven platform and approach
Through its scalable software-defined platform, Atlantis Computing has helped over 500 organizations manage and optimize more than 12PB of in-memory storage for more than 580,000 VMs, including some of the largest virtualization deployments in the world.

Customers include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Haaii, Colt Technology Services, Frankfuter Bankgesellschaft, Hammersmith and Fulham Council, JP Morgan Chase, University Hospitals of Leicester, U.S. Army, Washington Trust Bank.

Atlantis ILIO is purpose built to optimize and manage all virtualized server workloads.

“This patent award is an important milestone not just for Atlantis Computing but for storage and virtualization as a whole – we are now clearly in an era where virtual workloads will shift from running on physical SAN & NAS to software defined storage powered by the hypervisor. This patent also raises the bar on smart software techniques as a valid approach to elegantly solving complex storage performance challenges instead of applying brute force approaches in hardware,” Chetan Venkatesh, founder and CTO.

“This patent award is an important validation for the unique approach that Atlantis Computing has taken to optimize the use of storage in the virtual datacenter,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, president and CEO, Atlantis. “The flexibility, performance gains, and cost reductions that are delivered directly empower any IT team to fully optimize any datacenter.”