VMworld: Next-Generation Storage Infrastructure Products for Telco Market by Attala Systems

Attala Systems, Inc. demonstrated its Composable Storage Infrastructure products with the Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000 at VMworld 2017.

The companys Composable Storage Infrastructure offers storage performance, automated infrastructure orchestration, and zero-touch bare metal provisioning, resulting in greater resource efficiency and reduced TCO.

The combination of Ericsson AB‘s offering, the firm’s next-generation storage infrastructure technology, Intel Corp.‘ Rack Scale Design (Intel RSD), and NVMe Intel SSDs has the potential to enable service providers to generate and support more clients, transactions and revenue-generating services.

“Attala has created a fundamentally new approach for composable, high-performance networked storage infrastructure that enables more flexibility and better performance for service providers,” said Anders Vestergren, head, product line software-defined infrastructure, Ericsson. “We are excited  to work with Attala Systems, exploring the possibility of integrating their solution into the Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000.”

Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000

Ericsson’s system uses a combination of hardware disaggregation and next-generation management software and orchestration to optimize hyperscale cloud resources for storage, compute, and networking across private, public, enterprise and telecom cloud domains. Based on Intel RSD, the Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000 can use the innovative service-provider specific storage capabilities within the company’s Composable Storage Infrastructure to drive storage disaggregation and composability. Intel RSD disaggregates compute, storage, and network resources, while introducing the ability to pool these resources as needed. In doing so, it simplifies management and creates the ability to dynamically compose resources based on workload-specific demands.

“Storage and data center operators can ratchet up to the next level of capability for their infrastructure by using Intel RSD, FPGAs, and NVMe SSDs to create elastic pools of high-performance storage,” said Dan McNamara, corporate VP, programmable solutions group, Intel. “This collaboration with Attala Systems and Ericsson has created a fundamentally new approach for cloud and communicatons service providers.“

The Composable Storage Infrastructure enables Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000 to utilize disaggregated storage without having the provisioning, orchestration, and management headaches normally associated with disaggregated storage. By using FPGA technology as a key component of the Composable Storage Infrastructure, the firm’s solution allows rapid response to changes in product needs, while still providing the performance and low latency necessary for cloud-based storage. The composable infrastructure also enables Ericsson to achieve the disaggregation of compute, storage, and networking that is critical to the flexibility of the Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000.

Following the demonstration at VMworld, Ericsson and Attala Systems, are planning trials with select customers.

“Working with world-class companies such as Ericsson and Intel has enabled Attala to bring to market a revolutionary new technology – the composable storage infrastructure,” said Taufik Ma, Attala Systems. “Our Composable Storage Infrastructure has been built specifically for the cloud and its unique demands. Think of it as an ‘elastic block storage solution on steroids’ that provides both unmatched scale-out and performance capabilities.”

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by Jean Jacques Maleval | 2017.08.11 | News