ioSTOR Tiered Storage Based on IO/s From Australian Zettagrid

Zettagrid Pty Ltd, an Australian provider of infrastructure as a service (IAAS), released ioSTOR, a cost-effective, simple and flexible storage solution for the Zettagrid cloud.

Based around matching storage performance to the needs of the customer application, ioSTOR achieves maximum flexibility through the simple concept of IO/s – a commonly accepted measure of real world storage performance.

“It’s clear our customers wanted a new approach to storage, and we’ve built ioSTOR to be adaptable,” said Nicki Pereira, CTO, Zettagrid. “ioSTOR delivers unprecedented flexibility – different tiers can be applied against individual servers within a single customer cloud, something we’re immensely proud to be able to deliver to our customers.“

Flexibility and scalability are king in the cloud – with customers demanding pay as you go consumption, ioSTOR takes this model a step further by introducing performance on the go. Whilst dynamic cloud resource scaling has traditionally been restricted to processor and memory, ioSTOR tiers can be changed live per server in response to evolving customer requirements.

With tiers ranging from 100 IO/s to well over 1,000 IO/s, it starts at 9c per gigabyte.