DatOn Enhances AZS Integrated Systems for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI With 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processors

DataON, a division of Area Electronics Systems, Inc., announces an enhanced line of AZS integrated systems for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI powered by 3rd gen Intel Corp.’ Xeon Scalable processors.

Azure Stack HCI is an Azure service that combines the price-performance of HCI with native Azure hybrid capabilities, all while letting enterprises leverage existing skills.

AZS integrated systems with 3rd gen Xeon Scalable processors provide a balanced architecture with built-in acceleration and security capabilities, designed for in-demand workload requirements. Through partnership with the world’s software and solution providers, they are optimized for trusted enterprise virtualization, ROBO and edge, VDI, high performance SQL Server and delivering cloud app on-premises with Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) for Azure Stack HCI.

3rd gen Xeon Scalable processors are based on a balanced, architecture that increases core performance, memory, and I/O bandwidth to accelerate diverse workloads from the data center to the edge. They support up to 28 cores per processor in 4-and-8-socket configurations, driving enhanced performance, throughput, and CPU frequencies compared to previous-gen processors.

The company’s integrated systems are powered by Azure Stack HCI. They are designed to help businesses embrace HCI in order to lower costs, improve data center performance and availability, and simplify operations. Azure Stack HCI features a HCI stack with the latest Azure hypervisor, with built-in SDS and networking. Delivered as an Azure service, it provides storage performance, built-in resiliency, and enhanced hybrid cloud integration for Azure customers. It uses the same technologies that Microsoft Corp. uses to run its own data centers.

The firm is a Microsoft partners to offer integrated systems for the Azure Stack HCI. Its integrated systems include a complete and turnkey experience that DataON is already renowned for by our customers who have already deployed Microsoft hyper-converged solutions.

With the firm’s integrated systems, everything is included:

Azure Stack HCI pre-installed
Server nodes powered by Intel technologies, with premium-level validation and certification from Microsoft and Intel
HCI cluster monitoring and management plus hybrid cloud services through Microsoft Window Admin Center with DataON MUST
Cluster aware updating (CAU) via DataON MUST Pro for Windows Admin Center
Azure services such as Azure Backup, Azure Monitor, and Azure Security Center
Jointly supported by DataON and Microsoft for five years
Ongoing testing and validation from DataON and Microsoft

“DataON has always been one of the leading partners to bring to market the latest Microsoft software-defined solutions with the latest Intel technologies,” said Howard Lo, VP, sales and marketing, DataON. “The combination of Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with the new 3rd gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors brings together the best software and hardware capabilities to create an incredibly flexible, scalable, and high-performing infrastructure for customers.“

Talal Alqinawi, senior director, Azure, Microsoft, said: “As customers’ IT and business needs change, Microsoft and its partners continue to provide solutions that are innovative and flexible. In collaborating with Intel and DataON to develop robust end-to-end Microsoft Azure Stack HCI solutions for customers, we combine our strengths. This helps customers shifting to hyper-converged infrastructure with hybrid capabilities to simplify infrastructure on-premises and take advantage of public cloud value.“

The company’s solutions for Azure Stack HCI have been recognized for being simple to deploy, easy to manage, and performant. StorageReview gave DataON HCI-224 solution for Azure Stack HCI an Editor’s Choice award and K2N-224 for Azure Stack HCI was selected a finalist in the Storage Magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year awards.

New products available include:

AZS-6112 – Optimized for size and performance with all-NVMe flash storage

AZS-6212 – Optimized for IO/s and capacity with hybrid storage

AZS-6224 – Optimized for IO/s and performance with all-NVMe flash storage

Performance highlights include:

Compute

Up to 42% more processors, 1.46x performance increase, 1.74x higher AI inference performance,

Memory

1.6x memory bandwidth improvement and more platform I/O with PCIe Gen4
33% more lanes with PCIe Gen4
Up to 12TB memory per platform
32% higher memory bandwidth

Storage

Supports next-gen Intel Optane SSDs with 4x greater IO/s vs. PCIe Gen 3
Supports Intel QLC NVMe SSDs with up to 1PB storage in 1U servers

Connectivity

Supports up to 200Gb/s RDMA network speed for HCI fabric
Secure everything, everywhere for data, apps, and platforms
Accelerate data protection with up to 1.48x encryption performance
Improve data confidentiality with secure enclaves with Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX)
Full memory encryption with Intel Total Memory Encryption
Firmware protection with Intel Platform Firmware Resilience

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