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By BSO, Public Cloud Object Storage Offering Based on OpenIO Technology

Rate ranges from €0.012/GB/month for up to 500TB, to €0.0085/GB/month for 5PB and beyond.

BSO, which has been providing HA infrastructure solutions for mission-critical applications since 2004, announces the launch of an Object Storage offer in public cloud mode, called BSO.st.

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This offer is based on the SDS developed by French company OpenIO SAS.

This object-mode storage platform, compatible with the S3 API, allows users to consume storage on demand, with a capacity that adjusts to their needs. The service is managed jointly by BSO (for the hardware layer) and OpenIO (for the software layer), to scale as quickly as necessary to meet user needs – which are proving exponential with the explosion of data produced by companies.

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Openio Object Storage

Performance object storage for all types of use cases, from backup to big data
The particularity of this offer is that it aims to provide storage with the highest performance in the market, in terms of bandwidth (i.e. the ability to read and write a large volume of data at high speed). Since it is a public cloud offer physical resources are shared, but performance will remain consistent.

To achieve performance, the service relies on machines equipped with a dual 40Gb/s port, interconnected to the backbone (250 points of presence worldwide) that is managed by BSO via 2x40Gb/s links (upgradable to Nx100Gb/s). OpenIO makes the most of these resources. The company demonstrated the technology’s performance by running a challenge to break the Tterabit per second write barrier, on a Criteo Labs infrastructure in September 2019 (more about the #TbpsChallenge).

BSO.st is already available in Paris, and will soon be available in New York and London so that companies can locate their data as close as possible to their users and offer them the best access times. For each geographical area, the data is by default duplicated in 3 data centres, located within 3 distinct incident zones. This ensures high data availability (100%) and an SLA of 99.9%.

Attractive and predictable pricing
The other specificity of BSO.st is its price, which can be up to 2x less than the market provider and above all, much more predictable!

Pricing is based on:

  • Volume of stored data useful volume

  • Bandwidth consumed to write and read data, except in the case where data is read/written by other Cloud services in the BSO ecosystem. In this case, the bandwidth is free of charge. This is not the case with other companies, where billing rates can be difficult to control, or even economically unsustainable as data usage increases.

The rate ranges from €0.012 per GB/month for up to 500TB, to €0.0085 per GB/month for 5PB and beyond. By way of comparison, the storage of one petabyte of data with BSO.st costs €10,000 Gb/month, compared to more than €24,000 per Gb/month with AWS, without subscribing to the “datacenter failure security” option, which is natively included in the BSO.st service.

Alexander Legrix, director, global systems and managed services, BSO, said: “We are delighted to enter this partnership. OpenIO is an Object Store with one of the highest performances in the market, due to its unique grid design and its dynamic and intelligent data placement technology – ConsciousGrid- which allows scaling a platform without rebalancing data. We also chose it for its robustness, and the proximity we have with those who develop and evolve this cutting-edge technology.

Laurent Denel, CEO and co-founder, OpenIO, said: “We are observing an increasing movement in Data Repatriation: companies want to regain control of their data and control their storage costs. They are leaving the US cloud services leaders to build their private cloud, and some are turning to public cloud services based in Europe, whose business model is more transparent, following the example of the BSO.st offer. Users need to be able to choose between the two models, or even choose a hybrid form because public cloud storage provides great flexibility to start a new project without investing or to absorb a temporary overflow of business capacity. Finally, we are pleased that BSO shares our vision that Object Storage is no longer a technology to be considered only for backup: with the performance it provides today, object storage can be used to build data lakes and to serve data at high speed to computing clusters, for big data and AI applications.”

Read also:
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Being one of 4 SDS solutions promoted by company [with our comments]
June 9, 2020 | Press Release
OpenIO Object Storage Solution Unveils Record Performance With Criteo
Writing up to 1Tb/s
October 18, 2019 | Press Release

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