Cirrascale Reselling Amplidata Software

Cirrascale Corporation, developer of build-to-order, independent blade-based computing and storage infrastructure for conventional and modular data centers, has signed a reseller agreement with Amplidata to integrate and resell its AmpliStor software on the company’s scale-out, commodity-based CirraStor Petascale Storage Appliance.

The partnership enables Cirrascale to a deliver hyperscale object storage infrastructure that meets reliability and availability requirements at the lowest possible cost while scaling past multi-petabyte capacities.

The CirraStor Petascale Appliance utilizes AmpliStor to deliver customizable levels of data durability. Amplidata’s BitSpread erasure coding offers more reliability than traditional replication schemes, while consolidating multiple existing tiers of storage. Typically, customers deploy multiple tiers of varied storage types to help decrease costs and provide assurance for data durability. With AmpliStor, a single instance of data provides much higher durability thereby saving customers on both capital and operational costs. It can even come close to the TCO of two copies on tape, while providing the convenience, management ease, and continuous accessibility of disks, along with scalable, multi-gigabyte throughput.

"Cirrascale is proud to partner with Amplidata to create a robust, scalable, turnkey petascale storage offering using AmpliStor," said David Driggers, CEO, Cirrascale. "Our customers in media and entertainment, as well as other vertical markets, are already engaged with us on deploying massive active archive initiatives and big unstructured data archives. This partnership allows us to better help these clients and others looking for scalable object storage for online applications."

"The need to efficiently and reliably store and scale PBs of media files is now required to address the growth of large data files in television and movie production," said Mike Wall, chairman and CEO of Amplidata. "Cirrascale’s commodity-based, open-architecture blade storage solution, in combination with AmpliStor’s patented BitSpread and BitDynamics technology, solves key durability and scalability problems by utilizing high-density, low-cost disk drives to enable a complete turnkey solution that is optimal for large active media archives."

The expanded CirraStor storage platform integrated with AmpliStor storage system software can handle up to 864 3.5-inch HDDs enabling over 3.4PB of RAW storage capacity per rack.

The scalable storage solution is available to order and will begin shipping in high volume late Q2 2013.