Elastifile: Scalable, Enterprise-Grade NFS File Services Through Google Cloud Launcher

Elastifile Ltd. announced its availability on Google Cloud Launcher, providing customers with the ability to deploy scalable, enterprise-grade, high-performance NFS file services on Google Cloud Platform with just a few clicks.

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Google Cloud Launcher allows users to quickly deploy functional software on Google Cloud Platform with no manual configuration required. The company’s validated compatibility for use with Google Compute Engine and integration with Google Cloud Launcher delivers an path to cloud-based and hybrid cloud workflows.

As a member of the Google Cloud Technology Partner Program, the company is already helping organizations leverage Google Cloud Platform to expand and accelerate their workflows.

“To improve our data-intensive drug discovery workflows, we needed a scalable, high-performance IT infrastructure solution,” said Woody Sherman, chief science officer, Silicon Therapeutics. “By leveraging Elastifile to burst our workloads to Google Cloud Platform, we gained elastic access to cloud-based resources and specialized services…enabling us to drastically reduce our IT management overhead and minimize our workflow ‘time-to-result’.“

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Availability through Google Cloud Launcher further enhances the joint solution by enabling easy, push-button deployment, scaling, and tear-down of shared NFS file services in the cloud. This flexibility allows users to satisfy the dynamic capacity and performance requirements generated by bursty or unpredictable workloads, while still minimizing infrastructure costs.

“At Elastifile we’re passionate about helping enterprises leverage the public cloud effectively, and our inclusion on Google Cloud Launcher isa key enabler for that mission,” said Amir Aharoni, CEO and co-founder, Elastifile. “By further simplifying the deployment, scaling, and management of cloud-based data infrastructure, we’ve delivered a complete, cost-effective solution that eases cloud integration and adds crucial value for a variety of use cases.“

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Powered by a dynamically scalable, distributed file system with intelligent object tiering, Elastifile delivers cost-effective, high-performance parallel access to global data via POSIX-compliant, NFS file services.

The combination of Elastifile and Google Cloud Platform enables existing file-based applications and workflows to dynamically leverage cloud resources with no refactoring required, and while still retaining the benefits of enterprise data services.

The company also integrates with Kubernetes, enabling data persistence and sharing across containerized environments.

In addition, the firm’s CloudConnect capability facilitates cost-effective data mobility and management. When leveraged to create a bidirectional data flow between on-premises environments and Google Cloud Platform, CloudConnect enables highly efficient hybrid cloud solutions. When leveraged in the cloud, it enables cost-optimized, dynamic data tiering between an Elastifile file system and Google Cloud Storage, thus allowing data to reside in the most efficient, cost-effective location at all times.

Resources:
Check Out This Overview of Elastifile on Google Cloud (registration required)
Video: In-Cloud File Services
Why we used Elastifile Cloud File System on GCP to power drug discovery by Woody Sherman, chief science officer and Vipin Sachdeva, principal investigator, Silicon Therapeutics