CeBIT: Gooxi Chooses Zstor as Partner in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Zstor GmbH, as a company within Central Europe, expands their portfolio of professional servers and storage systems with products developed by Shenzhen Guoxinhengyu Technology Co. Ltd. (Gooxi), one of the Chinese manufacturers of modular storage and server platforms as well as blade systems.

Based on Gooxi’s barebones with Intel Purley platforms Zstor offers customized server and storage solutions, using up to Intel’s scalable processors and SAS 12Gb SSDs and HDDs.

Gooxi’s storage and server platforms build the base for Zstor’s tailor-made software-defined storage solutions.

With more than 100,000 systems per year, Gooxi is a player in the Far East IT industry and one of few manufacturers, designing and producing chassis and backplanes as well as motherboards on their own. A focus sets Gooxi on the modular design of barebones which depict not only a service-friendly platform, but also match to the requirements of applications by high flexible configurations.

Zstor – Partner for Gooxi systems in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
For direct sale, service and consultancy of Gooxi systems, Zstor starts as authorized Gooxi integration and distribution partner.

“Based on the server and storage platforms by Gooxi today we even better meet our customer’s requirements by flexible configurations,” said Helmut Kopel, MD, Zstor. “Up to high-performance solutions using scalable processors from Intel, we can configure individually and flexible customer’s server and storage solutions and also combine this with service and support from one single source.“

Zstor configures specialized servers according to customer’s requirements
Server and storage systems in rackmount format of 1U to 4U with one or two CPUs are available for entry level applications and will be equipped according to customer’s request by Zstor with LAN interfaces, storage controllers as well as SSDs/HDDs.

More powerful systems are configured with Intel Xeon Scalable processors. In addition to multi-node servers running with two or four Intel Xeon E5-2600 server platforms, server blades up to 12 Intel Xeon E3-1200 modules for performing applications are available.

The systems are prepared for use in different system environments and are certified for the respective OS, supported by Zstor’s single point of contact service and logistic strategy.

Save on service costs through exchangeable modular components
The modular design of the Gooxi server and storage platforms enables service deployment in case of an error. In few seconds, the entire motherboard with all built-in interface cards can be replaced without removing the server chassis out of the rack. This reduces the needed service time in case of an error and realizes a fast system recovery with a lowest downtime. Also the modular design of server and storage systems can fit to future requirements through an update.

Consulting, configuration, and service from one single source
Customer’s respective requirements define the configuration and installation of any Gooxi system deployed by Zstor. Optional warranty and services are available up to 60 months. The English and German speak technical support and service will be done by engineers from Zstor’s HQs for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.