Atlantis Computing Cuts BC Costs in Half With Stretched Cluster

Atlantis Computing, Inc. announced the USX 3.1 platform that can reduce BC costs by 50% or more across the entire enterprise.

The Stretched Cluster feature provides organisations with an efficient hyper-converged solution enabling zero RPO and RTO between multiple data centres.

With USX Stretched Cluster, businesses can now tolerate failure of an entire data centre without experiencing any disruption in application availability and or loss of data. The USX cluster spans multiple data centres that can be located more than 100 miles apart (up to 8ms latency) to add a layer of HA on top of the native data protection. In addition to automated and transparent failover of servers and VMs, USX Stretched Cluster manages network failure between data centres to provide complete site failure protection.

“Many of our customers want to provide their businesses with the assurance that all of their critical systems will remain available regardless of power failures or even natural disasters. However, the cost of providing complete resilience with traditional storage puts BC out of reach for many organisations,” said Chetan Venkatesh, CEO, Atlantis. “With Atlantis USX Stretched Cluster, we have integrated a complete multi-site HA solution into our SDS platform that can be deployed as part of a hyper-converged architecture at no additional cost.“

“Our customers need to build IT infrastructure that can cost-effectively provide HA and DR, while enabling them to move data, VMs and application workloads between multiple sites that are often 40 to 160 kilometers apart,” said Sebastiaan Smit, business development director, TenICT B.V. “They can now replace expensive traditional SAN array replication with an Atlantis USX Stretched Cluster using hyper-converged architectures with DAS in rack or blade servers, cutting cost and data centre space by at least half.“

USX: multi-site HA and DR without high cost
A Stretched Cluster solution typically requires two sites that are identical to each other using synchronous mirroring of expensive SAN storage arrays to prevent data loss. Until now, that mirroring required massive amounts of bandwidth, with businesses typically dedicating leased high-speed communications lines between sites at significant cost. USX Stretched Cluster makes synchronous mirroring deduplication-aware, which can cut the bandwidth requirements. Not only does this cut costs, but also speeds recovery and improves availability because Atlantis re-syncs only the incremental unique data blocks between locations. The Stretched Cluster feature allows businesses to dynamically move volumes, data and VMs between sites up to 100 miles apart with up to 8ms of round trip latency.

At VMworld 2015 Europe, Atlantis product experts demonstrated USX 3.1 and HyperScale appliances, including the Stretched Cluster capabilities and other features:

• VMware Virtual Volume (VVOL) integration

• Deduplication-aware snapshots

• Remote replication

• Desktop Workspace, the desktop virtualisation solution for VMware Horizon Workspace Suite.

USX 3.1 with Stretched Cluster will be available worldwide at no charge to customers with current support plans.

Additional resources:
Blog: USX Stretched Cluster
USX 3.1 Solution Brief
Atlantis Integrates with VMware Virtual Volumes Video