FMS: Demo by Exten Technologies of HyperDynamic Storage V.3.0 Software

Exten Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of the third generation of its HyperDynamic storage software that brings advanced levels of resiliency, performance and management to demanding data center customers across the globe.

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The company’s software is for the performance required by applications in analytics, ML, and HPC.

Resilience: The firm’s software is designed to meet mission critical storage needs.

V3.0 further strengthens the company’s industry position with:

Node level resiliency with synchronous replicas
Shared volumes with replicas for supporting parallel file systems
Dual parity (RAID-6) resiliency
Integrated drive management and hot swap

The software is deployed on the storage target and requires no proprietary software on compute clients. This minimizes deployment friction, enhances security and ensures all client CPU performance is available for application compute needs. Resiliency is also implemented on the target side and requires no active involvement from clients, ensuring performance, scalability and lower TCO for users.

Performance: The software continues to provide price/performance for NVMe-oF with less than one microsecond of added latency and works across multiple fabric protocols including TCP, IB and RoCE. Version 3.0 of the firm’s software further improves TCP performance with Solarflare TCP acceleration that provides TCP performance near RDMA.

Management: The software is easy to use. Release 3.0 contains additional features to simplify NVMe-oF storage management and deployment. These include declustered RAID, which provides the ability to configure resilient volumes that use standard, Linux multi-path IO software to provide redundancy in both networking and storage. Different RAID levels per volume allow flexible, optimized provisioning for separate use cases. The company’s web user interface provides node and cluster level telemetry as well as the ability to easily set QoS limits to manage performance during drive or node rebuilds.

“Exten HyperDynamic software provides market leading performance without compromise,” said Craig Gilmore, CEO, Exten. “We have architected our NVMe over fabrics storage solution to align high-performance, low cost, and maximum resilience for the best cost/performance available. We are excited to release version 3.0 of our software which includes enhanced resilience at the speed of NVMe.“

“NVMe is becoming more widely deployed in the world’s largest data centers due to escalating performance requirements in this big data-centric era,” said Eric Burgener, research VP, infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies group, IDC. “Exten gives their customers maximum choice in both storage hardware and NVMe over Fabrics host connection options with target-side only solutions that are simple and easy to deploy and maintain.“

“The demands of many data-driven organizations have already outpaced what’s possible with traditional storage architectures. NVMe is expected to offer a performance boost, but IT leaders need solutions that can also address the massive cost and scale of modern storage environments,” says Scott Sinclair, senior analyst, ESG. “Exten’s efficient, software-based architecture, which is standards based and platform agnostic, changes the cost paradigm for low-latency storage.“

The company is demonstrating and showcasing the latest version of its HyperDynamic storage software at the FMS in Santa Clara, CA.

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