Infinidat InfiniBox R4 Core OS

Infinidat Ltd. announced InfiniBox core operating software.

InfiniBox R4 is the fourth major software release for the company since launching InfiniBox in October 2013 and introduces four anticipated product features detailed below.

“Infinidat’s strategy is to reimagine industry-standard features and implement clean sheet designs that raise the bar. This is how we delight our customers and displace the incumbents,” said Jacob Broido, chief product officer, Infinidat.

Synchronous replication
InfiniBox R4 introduces a novel implementation of synchronous replication that delivers the lowest latency in the industry.

“For 25 years, enterprise storage customers have tolerated a minimum 2x latency penalty in order to protect their most critical applications. InfiniBox Synchronous Replication improves the industry standard by over 25%, with bulletproof, sub-400µs latency, yet is incredibly easy to setup and requires zero management,” said Anat Rappaport, senior product manager, Infinidat.

“InfiniBox offers us seven-nines availability and has been running continuously since installation. The addition of Synchronous Replication now enables us to migrate our most strategic, mission critical systems to Infinidat,” said Markus Bentele, VP, information technology, MAHLE International GmbH.

QoS
Also included in InfiniBox R4 is the firm’s neural cache-based QoS capability that eliminates traditional storage tiers.

“Traditional storage QoS implementations destroy application performance because they’re all based on the same traffic shaping concepts imported from the networking industry over a decade ago,” said Shlomi Halevy, senior product manager, Infinidat. “InfiniBox R4 QoS is a clean sheet design that enables service providers to deliver multiple service levels and exceptional application performance without having to purchase and manage multiple tiers of physical storage. This is a game changer for service providers seeking to streamline operational efficiency, simplify capacity planning, and pass on those benefits to their customers.“

Jason Carolan, chief cloud officer, Peak 10+ViaWest, agrees: “Service levels in a modern data center should be software-defined and expressed programmatically as an infrastructure API. InfiniBox R4 enables this control and enables increasingly sophisticated mission-critical management of dynamic storage workloads.“

NAS asynchronous replication and TreeQs
InfiniBox R4 also introduces asynchronous replication and TreeQs for NAS. Asynchronous replication for NAS shares a common feature set with SAN and delivers the four second RPO, a 10X improvement over the current market leader. The feature supports replication of cloud-scale file systems and billions of files per file system with zero latency impact.

“NAS TreeQs enable granular control over file system governance, allowing operators to enforce user quotas at the directory level, thus simplifying migration from legacy NAS storage and enabling per-app and per-project capacity reporting,” said Gregory Touretsky, senior product manager, Infinidat. “InfiniBox TreeQs scale to millions of quotas with no performance impact at enterprise scale and load.“

Software engineering innovations
Along with delivering innovative features that raise the bar in the industry, InfiniBox R4 offers an opportunity to innovate on how the company builds, tests and delivers code.

“Over a hundred customers participated in our Social Product Management (SPM) program during the planning, development and test cycle for InfiniBox R4,” said Brian Carmody, CTO, Infinidat. “Projects at this scale succeed because they are a community effort.“

InfiniBox R4 also represents a new level for the firm’s quality assurance program. InfiniBox delivers seven-nines of availability, which is less than threes of downtime per year.

“Shipping products that perform at this level across a 2.2EB installed base requires new ways of thinking about quality assurance in the software engineering process,” said Eran Rechter, VP, quality assurance, Infinidat. “Our automated QA program executed a record 1.8 EBs of I/O during the InfiniBox R4 test cycle prior to the first customer installation.“

“The InfiniBox neural caching architecture delivers consistently high performance and seven nines availability at petabyte scale and beyond, enabling dense mixed workload consolidation for Infinidat customers across many industries,” said Eric Burgener, research director, storage, IDC. “InfiniBox R4 raises the bar for the most demanding applications, with industry-leading synchronous replication performance and a new category of software-defined service levels for multi-tenant environments.“

“InfiniBox R4 is an incredible milestone for Infinidat. Congratulations to the team and the community for an outstanding collaboration on this release,” said Moshe Yanai, chairman and CEO, Infinidat.

InfiniBox R4 is available for select deployments and will be available next December. As is standard with all company’s releases, all new features are included in the base purchase price with no additional license fee attached.