StorPool Enables Backup and Recovery and Supports Hyper-V and VMware Hypervisors

StorPool Ltd. announced the 13th version of its software-defined storage solution.

This version, offers a native back-up and disaster recovery features for data protection. In addition, it will allow a share of the market to consider the solution thanks to a wider OS compatibility; the software, which was originally designed for Linux-based platforms, now includes support for a range of environments, including VMware, Windows Server and Hyper-V. The solution is designed for both public and private cloud operators: the updates will simplify data storage management.

Includes following features:

• Native data backup and disaster recovery (DR) and geo-replication

• This functionality eliminates the need for a separate data protection solution, simplifying a customer’s storage infrastructure and reducing costs.

• Clusters in remote locations are able to asynchronously transfer encrypted snapshots over the public internet. This enables accelerated long-distance data backup and virtual machine migration from one geographical region to another, e.g. from the US to Europe, delivering vital business continuity to companies.

• After the first sync, the solution only backs up new or changed data, rather than entire data sets. These incremental backups reduce data transfers and shorten back-up and recovery times by up to 95%. This performance enables users to set ambitious recovery point objectives and safeguard business continuity.

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iSCSI support
The solution has added performance, scale-out iSCSI support. The iSCSI implementation is highly available, which means that company’s iSCSI target has automatic fail-over: switching to a redundant target and ensuring business continues as usual in the event of a hardware failure. It is compatible with all OSs and hypervisors (including VMware and Hyper-V). It also brings solution’s performance and scalable shared block storage to dedicated and bare metal servers. This means the software is more versatile and accessible for more end users, who now overpay for expensive and inflexible alternatives.

Multi-core processing
Solution’s multi-threaded software concurrently executes multiple processes, which means customers can achieve even higher performance and ROI from their underlying hardware. The update allows per-node performance figures to increase by up to 80% from approximately 100,000 to up to 180,000 IO/s. This, added to the improved hardware performance, allows customers to build storage systems at well below $0.1/IO/s.

This storage solution scale beyond 1PB in a single cluster with performance of millions of IO/s and throughput of tens of GB/s per cluster. The distributed storage software’s standard use of two CPU cores, 8GB RAM and 0.2ms latency makes it a prime solution for companies building clouds.

Boyan Ivanov, CEO, StorPool, said: “Business is changing. What used to work yesterday does not work today anymore. This puts pressure on enterprises and service providers to innovate in order to stay on the market. By innovation in the IT stack we help our customers to keep and grow their business. And this is not just storage, we help them optimize the entire IT stack, so they can thrive. Our latest features not only add new capabilities for our customers. More importantly they allow a much larger set of companies to benefit from this superior solution.”