DataON Storage Partnering With Avago LSI

DataON Storage, provider of OS-agnostic storage enclosures, will be demonstrating the next generation Intel platform 12Gb/s Cluster-in-a-Box (CiB) during this year’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF) at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA, September 9-11 within the Avago Technologies Limited‘s booth.

Using Avago 9300 family 12Gb HBA controllers, dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors in a dual-node CiB-9224 and twenty-four HGST, Inc.‘s 12Gb SAS SSDs, the DataON CiB-9224 offers a throughput increase of over 50% compared to antiquated 6Gb/s flash pure storage systems.

“Avago applauds DataON Storage for advancing the adoption of 12Gb SAS with its new Cluster-in-a-Box appliance,” said Jas Tremblay, VP marketing, data center solutions group, Avago. “The CiB platform provides improved performance and efficiency for cloud and enterprise datacenters by doubling I/O storage performance and alleviating bottlenecks to help manage explosive data demands.“

The CiB family of storage appliances from DataON offers a series of storage building block innovations able to consolidate both server and storage into a single storage platform. Architected with a converged design the CiB-9224 provides VM and file server functions concurrently from the same appliance allowing 50+ VMs and up to 48TB of 12Gb/s shared storage.

“We’re pleased that our CiB appliance, in partnership with Avago and HGST’s 12Gb SAS technologies, is a part of the first to demonstrate the next generation Intel platform,” states Trenton R. Baker, VP business development, DataON. “With the ability to deliver dozens of VMs and over a million IO/s from a tiered storage 2U clustered form factor positions the CiB-9224 to have storage professionals seriously rethink the validity of certain overvalued all-flash pure storage designs.“

With a history of SAS leadership, Avago delivers 12Gb SAS HBAs and SAS expanders integrated in the CiB-9224 to increase the much needed I/O performance and bandwidth for intensive applications. Coupled with HGST SAS SSDs and leveraging Windows Server 2012 R2 with clustering technology, the CiB-9224 is primed to deliver performance and flexibility with auto-tiering hybrid SSD/HDD storage.

“Microsoft delivers an efficient and economically sound file-based shared storage foundation in Windows Server 2012 R2 with support for 12Gb/s tiered storage,” said Jose Barreto, principal PM manager, cloud and enterprise, Microsoft Corp. “Utilizing Windows Server 2012 R2 and Storage Spaces technology with the latest Intel Xeon platform, the DataON Cluster-in-a-Box delivers a compelling Wintel high-performance converged storage solution to help lower TCO and offer continuous uptime.”

The CiB-9224 utilizes energy efficient DDR4 memory, integrated 10GbE ports and can scale by adding external JBODs through Avago DataBolt SAS expander technology. This architecture eliminates additional hardware costs, minimizes footprint requirements, and simplifies cabling and installation, enabling optimal uptime HA and maximizes storage performance for I/O-intensive applications, cloud datacenters and virtualized server environments.

Pricing for a complete 24-bay 12Gb HDD/SSD converged storage appliance for concurrent Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and file serving starts under $35,000. The DataON CiB-9224 is currently qualifying for Windows Server 2012 R2 and select software-defined storage partners with availability scheduled for late September 2014.

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