Diaway Launched OpenIO Object Storage infrastructure
Being one of 4 SDS solutions promoted by company
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on June 9, 2020 at 2:31 pmTo meet the growing needs of enterprises in terms of data storage, DIAWAY OÜ launches an off-the-shelf Object Storage offering, based on OpenIO technology.
From 100TB, with the possibility of scaling the storage platform very easily, while maintaining one low TCO. In addition, OpenIO technology offers performance that is compatible with new data uses such as big data workloads and AI applications. OpenIO Object Storage is a fast software-defined object storage solutions. It was the first Object Storage technology to claim to have crossed the terabit-per-second write speed barrier in September 2019, on a Criteo infrastructure, ta leader in commerce marketing (read more about the #TbpsChallenge).
DIAWAY, thanks to its hardware expertise, offers the OpenIO solution as a complete bundle (a pre-configured, ready-to-use cluster, built with the best components to combine performance and low TCO). All this with one-stop shopping, since it takes care of the configuration and maintenance of all or part of your storage platform.
According to analysts, the volume of data generated by companies could quadruple between 2020 and 2025. In the face of this deluge, companies’ current storage infrastructures are showing their limits. In addition, the choice between performance, TCO, and scalability was limited in the past – it is now necessary to reconcile all 3, as the volume of data grows. But also and above all is the overarching need to extract value from this big data.
OpenIO is a software-defined object storage for big data and HPC workloads, and AI applications. With its distributed grid architecture and self-learning ConsciousGrid technology, it scales without mandatory data rebalancing, while delivering consistent high performance. It is S3 API compatible and can be deployed at customers sites worldwide or on DIAWAY provided global colocation points of presence for optimal TCO.
In addition, customers of OpenIO Object Storage infrastructure powered by DIAWAY, will benefit from data protection based on erasure coding, with the ability to choose the level of data protection according to their criticality and to automate their life cycle. Typical use cases span from backup and archiving, media catalogues, cloud service providers building object storage backends for various services, entertainment to online retail and research.
The pre-built constructs start at 100TB of useful capacity in 4 nodes and scale up to 1.7PB in 14 nodes. Larger capacities are available as well through offline sizing.
OpenIO Object Storage infrastructure powered by DIAWAY is software-defined, built with tefficient components for lower TCO, and is enhanced with a networking option, datacenter colocation and onsite support if required. The product is available for sizing and purchase on the DIAWAY website.
“We are delighted to partner OpenIO to bring this solution to the market, for our existing and future customers,” – said Aleksandr Ragel, co-founder and managing partner at DIAWAY. “We teamed up with OpenIO to build a joint solution in order to meet the demand in high performance, fully S3-compatible and affordable object storage. It will complement our existing solutions for universal storage, distributed and scalable file system and fill up the space in between them for a purpose-fit object storage infrastructure. OpenIO’s innovative engineering was another reason for making this happen – it is a sure sign we’re at the right place.”
“We are very satisfied with this partnership,” said Laurent Denel, co-founder and CEO, OpenIO. “The hardware expertise developed by DIAWAY allows users to get the most out of our technology, thanks to a judicious choice of components. Users benefit from a turnkey, scalable and high-performance object storage platform, offering the best possible TCO, in the environment of their choice: deployed at customers sites worldwide or on DIAWAY provided global colocation points. The user retains total control of data and rationalizes their storage expenses, without giving up flexibility since DIAWAY is able to interconnect an OpenIO platform to a hybrid multicloud environment.”
Comments
Few remarks:
First, this press release speaks about speed to justify the choice but Diaway lists the solution as a Diaway Essential Scale-Out Cold Storage Server as it is displayed on its website. Cold storage doesn't require speed but scalability and capacity. This page is even more strange when you read that Intel Optane could be an option, still for a cold storage solution but we don't see "classic" SSD out of this Optane reference if users wish some hybrid storage servers.
The promotion seems to be made with the bandwidth capability of the solution demonstrated during a benchmark. Globally it exists two types of benchmarks: the first is to beat records and almost nobody can afford the configuration, it's about absolute performance, second it's about delivering the best performance on customers' environments and the story could be different... Generally latency is a challenge to solve except for capacity-based solution. Bandwidth is easy to solve as it is essentially a question of striping, the larger the better. At the same time, large stripe means protection when striping embeds erasure coding schemas. More generally, cold storage is not about beating performance records and beating performance record is not about cold storage.
In its storage software catalog, Diaway picks also other open source solutions like LizardFS and Ceph but also a commercial software with Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. It would have been interesting to see what were Diaway's criteria. Note also that OpenIO changed a bit its message now around S3, the de-facto object interface all vendors must support and provide.
The second remark is related to the starting capacity of 100TB which is a surprise for object storage. We understand the necessity to protect data against disk and server failures but doing 100TB with 4 nodes (1U) cluster is almost a joke, it means 2 drives x 14TB (=28TB) leaving 10 disks slots in each server for future use.
Caringo picks an other approach with 1 Single Server Appliance (SSA) with 2 Xeon CPUs and not 1 in the Diaway case and up to 168TB with 5+2 erasure coding protection within one chassis. This configuration doesn't protect against server failure obviously. In that case, it appears to be a sophisticated storage array with advanced RAID protection if I wish to make the analogy. Many users just use RAID protection with one box especially for small capacity, it's pretty common.
This approach confirms the need to grow the addressable market for object storage vendors. Many people make the wrong statement saying that object storage is a scale-out model and requires several systems. It's not, this is just wrong. You can offer an object storage solution with just 1 server.
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