CloudByte Revealing 2U Cloud Age Unified Storage ElastiStor Appliance

CloudByte, Inc., provider of secure, multi-application storage for enterprise applications, announced its ElastiStor Appliance (ESA), a complete self-managed storage solution.

Developed in partnership with Dell, Inc.www.dell.com, SanDisk Corp.www.sandisk.com, and Super Micro Computer, Inc.http://www.supermicro.com/, ESA enables any size organization to break away from vendor lock-in and high expense of legacy storage approaches.

“With ESA, we bring in the flexibility and economics of server virtualization into the storage world,” said Felix Xavier, founder and CEO, CloudByte. “Each application feels dedicated storage in the shared environment.”

Designed to maximize rack space density, ESA delivers enterprise grade storage functionalities in 2U of rack space.

Capabilities

Spin out new Virtual Storage Machines (VSM) to run more applications
Scale across data centers by adding more ElastiStor appliances
Guaranteed storage performance delivered by each VSM

Benefits

Storage consolidation: Run many applications into single storage platform
No storage expertise: Self-managed and self-provisioned
Single console storage management: Across data centers

“CloudByte is adding a fresh approach to hardware in addition to their unique software capabilities,” said Greg Schulz, senior advisory analyst, StorageIO. “Their new appliances are expandable and can be easily combined into a storage grid, therefore overcoming both the capacity and geographical limitations of most storage approaches.“

Leveraging CloudByte’s storage architecture, ESA leverages flash drives for high-performance needs such as caching and either flash or disk drives for storage. Up to four expansion chasses can also contain hybrid storage.

“We are pleased to be working with CloudByte to incorporate SanDisk’s high performance enterprise SAS SSDs into their new cloud-based storage system,” said Steve Fingerhut, VP marketing, SanDisk enterprise storage solutions. “The foundation of SAS SSDs from SanDisk enables CloudByte customers to safely deliver fast storage services more efficiently, while saving energy, floor space, and ultimately money.”

Models, pricing, and availability
Three appliance models of ESA have been designed to support a specified number of applications or VMs.