IzumoBASE’s IzumoFS Certified IzumoFS Certified as Cisco Compatible

IzumoBASE, INC. completed Cisco Interoperability Verification Testing (IVT) of Cisco UCS and IzumoFS had been certified as Cisco compatible.

With the certification, IzumoBASE announced a reference architecture of IzumoFS-Cisco UCS storage solution.

This verified architecture enables users to integrate their servers, network, and storage, by taking advantage of IzumoFS’s storage management and UCS Manager’s server resource management.

Overview of the solution, detailed contents and results of IVT, the reference architecture, and collaboration with Cisco UCS Director are described more in detail in the following product pages and a white paper :

• Cisco Japan Solution Partner page
• Cisco Marketplace -IzumoFS
• White Paper

IzumoFS-UCS storage solution is suitable for following use cases:

• Server-based enterprise scale-out NAS
• Secret sharing storage to store confidential data
• Inter-site distributed file servers with DR functionality

IzumoBASE accelerates business partnership with Cisco as a member of Cisco Solutions Partner Program. The company focus not only on disseminating Cisco Compatible solution, but also on developing collaboration between IzumoFS and Cisco UCS Director to realize more integrated systems. The collaboration with UCS Director was demonstrated at Cisco Live 2017 in Las Vegas on June 25-29, 2017, and it received positive responses from attendees.

Comment from Hiroyuki Ishida, datacenter/virtualization operations, regional manager, Cisco Systems GK: “Cisco UCS solution provides excellent features such as system administration and system orchestration by Cisco UCS Manager. We believe the solution is a perfect match for IzumoFS – which consist of pure P2P architecture without any of ‘special node’ such as gateways or connectors – and Cisco UCS would dramatically streamline operation and management of IT infrastructure. To be more specific, by combining Service Profile of Cisco UCS Manager and Node Replacement feature of IzumoFS, a user can accomplish hardware replacement with minimum overhead. In the process of IVT, IzumoFS has shown great compatibility with Cisco UCS, not only functionally or performant, but especially in the aspect of simplifying administrator’s daily operations. We expect IzumoFS would become the key product that makes SDS prevail to the wide range of users in the world.“

Comment from Tatsuo Kimura, corporate officer and GM, excellent services, UNIADEX, Ltd: “We are the support partner of IzumoFS and a Gold Certified Partner of Cisco. We are pleased to see IzumoFS has been certified as Cisco UCS Compatible. IzumoFS is a notable SDS product with outstanding features such as inline deduplication and secret sharing scheme. We are going to provide a one-stop support service for both IzumoFS and Cisco UCS covering the whole country by our wide support network.“