Atlantis Expands Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-Converged Offerings With USX 3.0

Atlantis Computing, Inc. announced its third generation SDS platform and factory-integration of its HyperScale appliances available on Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP (HP), Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, Pte Ltd and Super Micro Computer, Inc. server platforms.

These solutions deliver data mobility to make the entire data centre more agile, provide all-flash performance to all users and applications and create efficiency that cuts data centre costs in half.

By using intelligent software to harness the power of faster and cheaper processing power, memory and flash storage, Atlantis USX eliminates the inefficiencies of SAN and NAS hardware, while delivering all-flash performance. With company’s solutions, IT organisations ensure that their storage systems have targeted availability levels that adapt resilience based on the importance of the data or system, which lowers the cost of BC. The latest release of company’s USX offers new innovations to simplify management of storage across the data centre including:

Company’s USX 3.0 SDS technology delivers expanded data protection and data mobility functionality that enables customers to make the entire data centre more agile by provisioning, cloning, snapshotting, replicating, and teleporting VMs and data ins.
VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOL) certified – USX is the only SDS or hyper-converged solution that is certified for VVOL, enabling VVOL to manage all existing storage in the data centre. The VVOL integration with Atlantis USX improves performance and increases the storage efficiency of provisioning, snapshots, clones, and storage vMotion.
Company’s Insight provides proactive software updates, a user feedback interface, real-time monitoring, and alerts (email, web, SNMP), providing customers with assurance that their infrastructure remains highly available.

“Businesses must continually adapt to market changes and innovate to grow and compete,” said Chetan Venkatesh, CEO, Atlantis. “By working with our industry partners we believe we can more quickly and effectively develop disruptive software-defined solutions such as the latest release of Atlantis USX and Atlantis HyperScale appliances to implement a true software-defined data centre with radical cost savings and no dependence on proprietary hardware.“

“Hyper-converged systems have the potential to influence the storage landscape because they combine two major storage industry trends at once – the trend toward software-defined infrastructure and the integration of compute, networking, storage, and management into a single integrated product,” said Archana Venkatraman, senior research analyst, IDC. “While many storage vendors have accelerated innovation around flash arrays and SDS to bring costs down, the pace of innovation to provide a full suite of data services within hyper-converged appliances has been comparatively slower. Combining SDS technology with rich data services and all-flash storage to deliver robust performances and scalable infrastructure while keeping costs low will accelerate the adoption of hyper-converged appliances for critical enterprise workloads.“

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Factory Integrated Atlantis HyperScale Appliances
In response to customer demand, OEM server manufacturers and distributors are teaming with Atlantis to make it easier and simpler to acquire and scale hyper-converged deployments. Currently offering a choice of Cisco, HP, Lenovo or SuperMicro hardware worldwide through channel partners, the company will deliver HyperScale CX-12 and CX-24 all-flash hyper-converged appliances, factory-integrated and shipped directly to customers by server vendors or their distributors. Each Atlantis HyperScale appliance tightly integrates compute, networking and all-flash storage, all with premium 24x7x365 support provided by Atlantis.

HyperScale CX12-24 HP

HP: The company has signed a new strategic OEM agreement with HP,expanding its existing relationship to offer all-flash hyper-converged appliances, factory-integrated on the world’s most popular server platform. Each pre-configured HyperScale appliance includes four 1U DL360 Gen9 servers with a total of 96 cores (Xeon E5-2680 v3), up to 3TB of RAM, 10GbE network cards, and 12 or 24TB of guaranteed, all-flash effective storage capacity. All HyperScale HP factory-configured appliances come with HP Proactive Care 4-hour onsite service and are available through Arrow Electronics in EMEA, and pre-integrated through Ingram Micro in North America.

HyperScale CX12-24 Supermicro

SuperMicro: Starting at $85,000 for a 12TB all-flash four-server cluster, HyperScale appliances deliver exceptional performance and cut compute and storage costs by up to 90% compared to comparable hyper-converged appliances or traditional server and SAN storage. HyperScale appliances are available factory-configured through SuperMicro in North America and EMEA, and pre-integrated through Ingram Micro in North America.

HyperScale CX12-24 Lenovo

Cisco and Lenovo: the company will offer HyperScale appliances pre-integrated on Cisco and Lenovo servers through Ingram Micro in North America as well as existing partners in EMEA.

Additional resources:
Atlantis VMworld 2015 event page
Blog on Atlantis USX 3.0 SmartSnap
Atlantis Integrates with VMware Virtual Volumes Video
USX 3.0 Solution Brief
Atlantis HyperScale hyper-converged appliances
IDC Insight: Atlantis Makes Hyper-Converged Economically Viable
Atlantis Community site
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