EUROstor and Cloudian Partner for Object Storage With ES-5000 HyperStore Appliance

Together with its new partner Cloudian Inc., EUROstor GmbH offers storage solutions for the private cloud.

ES-5000 Cloudian HyperStore

The requirements for cloud storage are different from the requirements for conventional storage solutions. Here it is basically a matter of large capacities which have to be available redundantly, often across long geographical distances. Moreover, it is necessary to be able to analyze the data in accordance with defined standards.

Object storage fulfills these requirements. Contrary to conventional storage connections via blocks (FC, iSCSI, SAS) or files (CIFS, NFS) object storage – as the name suggests – administers objects featuring a series of additional properties. These include access rights but, above all, information concerning the redundant distribution of identical data on different storage units. Thus, redundancy is no longer linked to RAID controllers or to the replication between the individual systems, but may be defined at random and dependent on the importance of the data, even across large distances.

With its ES-5000 products EUROstor introduced a series of object storage appliances which it will present at this year’s CeBIT.

These appliances feature the HyperStore software, manufactured by Cloudian.

This software supports the S3 standard for clouds and thus also supports tiering into a S3 public cloud. Moreover, it supports OpenStack in its ‘icehouse’ release and it is Hadoop-ready.

ES-5000 HyperStore appliances will be provided with up to 36 HDDs on 4U. This will result in a capacity of up to 288TB when using 8TB disks.

“Our partnership with Cloudian has enabled us to enlarge our portfolio by an attractive object storage solution”, says Franz Bochtler, GM, EUROstor, “Object storage is a rapidly growing market which is becoming more and more interesting for our customers.”