Maxta Introduces Application-Defined Storage and Hyper-Convergence

Maxta, Inc. announced that it has further maximized the promise of hyper-convergence by providing application optimization with the release of the Maxta Storage Platform (MxSP) and MaxDeploy appliances.

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Company’s Application-Defined Storage provides the best of both traditional storage and hyper-convergence by empowering organizations to define storage attributes independently and easily for each application, aligning storage with applications. Firm’s software enables the tuning of the virtual storage pool to the optimal configuration for a variety of workloads concurrently, including VDI, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and Oracle Database.

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MxSP software-defined storage solutions provide organizations the choice to deploy hyper-convergence on any x86 server, use any hypervisor, and any combination of storage devices. Deployed as either software or as part of a MaxDeploy appliance, the simplicity of firm’s VM-centric solution reduces IT management to maximize cost savings. enterprise data services, scale-up and scale-out capabilities, and capacity optimization empower organizations to hyper-converge, eliminating the need for SAN or NAS devices.

“Traditional storage allows parameters to be set to suit individual applications by carving out specific LUNs for each application. But doing that is cumbersome, and not always very appealing,” said Tim Stammers, senior analyst, 451 Research. “As well as reducing costs, hyper-convergence promises to simplify storage management, but it involves a single storage pool with a single set of parameters for all applications. Maxta’s hyper-converged storage now allows different parameters to be set for different applications running inside VMs – but without the complexity of LUN management.“

With company’s MxSP 3.1 and MaxDeploy appliances based on MxSP 3.1, users can either utilize pre-defined templates or create custom policies for aligning individual applications with storage attributes such as number of replica copies, block size, rebuild priority, whether to enable data striping or data locality, compression, and read caching.

“By taking a software-defined approach to hyper-convergence, we are best positioned to allow customers to utilize their infrastructure for any set of applications or workloads in any environment,” said Yoram Novick, CEO, Maxta. “Our Application-Defined approach takes hyper-convergence one step further by allowing organizations to fine tune their IT resources to meet the needs of multiple applications within a single cluster.“

Company’s Application Defined Storage is available via download for existing customers and with all new deployments of MxSP and MaxDeploy appliances.