StorONE Unveils S1-as-a-Service

StorONE, Inc. announces the S1-as-a-Service (S1aaS), a use-based solution integrating its enterprise S1 storage services with Dell Technologies, Inc. and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. hardware.

The solution illustrates a new level of storage economics providing an industry defining price point delivering a balance between enterprise performance and data protection capabilities.

Providing the answer to the question of proper resource utilization, the company has overcome the security risks and performance impacts traditionally associated with the cloud providing the reliability and capabilities of an on-premise architecture while guaranteeing only pay for the resources needed to support business today and tomorrow and transparently.

Customers get cloud-like simplicity and the pricing flexibility of a cloud-based model with the performance and control of an on-premise infrastructure. S1aaS starts at $999 per month for a 18TB AFA that delivers up to 150,000 IO/s – with flexible, user definable price, capacity and performance capabilities and options.

“S1aaS is going to change the economics not only of storage but of the entire data center,” said Gal Naor, CEO and co-founder, StorONE. “S1aaS makes enterprise AFA performance and data protection and control available for only $999 per month. No other vendor can offer a complete storage solution – whether on premises or in the cloud – for this low of a monthly cost.“

Like S1, S1aaS requires less hardware to achieve equal and in most examples superior results. The firm stands alone as one of the only companies in the industry that can say they invested the time and talent to develop their own technology providing a new, industry storage architecture.

One of the key components contributing to the price point advantage of the S1aaS platform is the StorONE Total Resource Utilization (TRU) capabilities, TRU maximizes the communication channels and balance between storage media and CPU utilization delivering the performance with less resources guaranteeing business always recognizes the correct cost to performance ratio. At the same time, all storage services (hyperconverged infrastructure, scale-out file storage, backup and archive/long-term retention,), all protocols (block, file and object), and all media types are supported on a single platform – for flexibility and ease-of-use.

In addition, S1aaS delivers data protection. Traditional RAID implementations are inflexible, hinder application performance, do not allow for the mix and match of the latest drive innovation, and by the nature of their design dictate long recovery times. The S1 architecture introduces a next-gen approach that accelerates drive rebuild times, replaces dedicated hot spares with their abstracted system based balanced resource utilization model which offers more granular resiliency levels, cuts costs by drawing from all available drive capacities and allows the implementation of the latest drive technologies on the fly. In addition, S1aaS provides unlimited, nestable, writeable, and persistent snapshots based on patented algorithms guaranteeing zero performance impact with unlimited user definable flexibility included free of charge.

Recognizing all recent industry studies indicate most organizations if they have an affordable option prefer to run their performance demanding applications in their on-premise data center, and understanding the reasons for this choice, the vendor developed their S1aaS offering to be deployed on-premise. Acknowledging the financial attraction of the cloud the StorONE, S1aaS solution delivers on the promise of a cloud-like subscription model. Billed monthly, quarterly or yearly the customer receives the advantages of an OPEX model for all storage services with multiple payment options including credit card transactions. Performance and capacity are user definable and can scale as easily as the cloud providing the option to dynamically align storage resources with the changing requirements of the business.

S1aaS platform can replace tomorrow’s capacity and performance questions with the simplicity of a single step resource allocation adjustment. Today, tomorrow, next month or next year choose the storage subscription model to fit your business delivering the resources for the right reasons at the right time transparently for users and your applications. And unlike other on-premise use-based services, which are usually just leases in disguise, there is no long-term commitment. Customers may cancel or modify their plan with a thirty-day notice.

“As high-performance SAS and NVMe flash drives become commonplace in the data center, storage media is no longer the bottleneck to performance,” said George Crump, founder and lead analyst, Storage Switzerland. “The storage management layer is the problem. Vendors try to compensate by using more powerful processors, more RAM, custom FPGAs and ASICs, as well as spreading I/O across dozens of flash drives, whose capacity is not needed. StorONE’s focus on efficiency – 150,000 IO/s from four conventional drives, an industry defining capability – is the foundational component of S1aaS. It enables a democratization of storage performance previously unavailable to the data center.“

“Advanced storage solutions like this require high-performance, programmable and intelligent networks,” said Motti Beck, senior director enterprise market development, Mellanox. “The combination of StorONE’s S1 software and Mellanox Ethernet storage fabric solutions eliminate the traditional bottlenecks that have been associated with server to storage communication and supports critical storage features, which improves date center efficiency and ensures the best user experience available.“