Infinidat Storage-as-a-Service Strategy Via AIOps Technology and Flexible Consumption Models at Petabyte Scale

Infinidat Ltd. has delivered on its storage-as-a-service (STaaS) strategy via AIOps technology and flexible consumption models at petabyte scale.

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The company’s Neural Cache deep learning technology, AIOps offerings, strategic partnerships and consumption-based models have resulted in significant momentum helping enterprise customers simplify IT operations.

“The breadth of Infinidat’s end-to-end AIOps offerings differentiates us in the enterprise market, enabling centralized operations, improving cost management, and resulting in scalable, multi-petabyte storage-as-a-service,” said Phil Bullinger, CEO. “We are leading the way to simplify IT operations at scale. Simultaneously, we are helping our customers fulfill SLAs with 100% guaranteed availability and mission-critical performance. Infinidat is aligned with the needs of enterprise customers for AIOps and continues to reinforce the value we create for customers.“

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The firm‘s technology foundation delivers storage solutions with 100% availability, high performance and the lowest possible TCO, at petabyte scale. Critical for delivering these benefits to customers is the company‘s multi-dimensional AIO/s approach, including the complementary combination of AI in the box (Neural Cache embedded inside firm‘s systems), AI outside the box (InfiniVerse spanning across the portfolio of the company’s platforms), and the firm’s wide ecosystem of AI technology partnerships.

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Neural Cache provides deep learning capabilities within InfiniBox and InfiniGuard, providing built-in intelligence that optimizes infrastructure and application environments on an ongoing basis. Neural Cache dynamically adapts to changing application, user and performance demands, yet without administrative overhead, delivering a zero-touch, set-it-and-forget-it experience. The company‘s AI in the box enables SLA-based guarantees, predictive abilities, and optimal combinations of underlying media. Recently, the firm extended its platform to include a solid-state array (SSA), further increasing its performance and availability advantages for most demanding applications.

As shown on Gartner Peer Insights, an existing Infinidat customer from a large public sector organization commented about the lower administrative overhead and superior user experience: “We have moved over our entire enterprise storage ecosystems to Infinidat and consolidated from multiple platforms, vendors and solutions. The solution provides easy to provision, manage and scale storage for both file and block. This will help reduce our operational overhead and free up our team to focus on more strategic efforts than managing storage infrastructure.“

Complementing the intelligence built into the company’s systems, InfiniVerse is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that provides a consolidated AIOps environment for customers’ full Infinidat estates. As the first piece of the company‘s AI-outside-the-box offering, InfiniVerse delivers predictive analytics, early issue detection and enhanced, proactive support – a key component enabling the storage-as-a-service experience for the company’s customers, without an additional charge.

A customer on Gartner Peer Insights shared feedback about Infinidat’s AI outside the box: “InfiniVerse is nice for central monitoring and gives a perfect overview for ongoing issues and performance.“

The company has been offering consumption-based pricing models since 2015, steadily adding capabilities to align with customer needs. Today, the firm offers FLX, a complete Opex business model launched in 2019. And for optimal versatility, it created Elastic Pricing, a unique blend of Capex and Opex pricing that expands its original Capacity on Demand pay-as-you-grow program. These choices allow customers to purchase Infinidat offerings anywhere on the spectrum from Capex to Opex. When combined with the firm‘s AIO/s capabilities, the result is a STaaS experience tailor-made for enterprise requirements and economics throughout the deployment lifecycle.

“Infinidat’s approach to storage as a service is compelling because of the combination of AIOps technology, strategic partnerships and flexible consumption models,” said Amanda Regnerus, EVP, business development, US Signal. “Having AI and Neural Cache in InfiniBox enhances the ability to simplify operations and create the set-it-and-forget-it experience that Infinidat is known for. Infinidat has advanced expertise in AIOps that we believe is critical for us in building differentiated services for our customers, delivering on SLAs like performance and reliability, while minimizing cost.“

“We have been working with Infinidat’s flexible consumption-based models for years, and we’re excited about the direction that Infinidat is taking with AIOps, fortified by Elastic Pricing, to set the backbone for storage as a Service,” said Allen Shahdadi, VP, global sales, Sycomp. “Infinidat’s AIOps offerings make our lives easier because our customers have a better experience. As a result, we are able to increase our profitability while providing more value.“

Infinidat is leveraging its established, SDS architecture that includes the use of AIOps for centralized infrastructure and data services with a primary control plane. It firm helps enterprise customers use AIOps for IT operational needs by providing capabilities for capacity management, cost optimization, workload management, and predictive, AI-driven analytics tools.

The company has also broadened its ecosystem for integration with third-party cloud and hybrid cloud solution providers, enabling customers to leverage cloud automation, orchestration and its AIOps platform. This expansion has unified infrastructure intelligence beyond the firm’s solutions. The ecosystem, which already intersects with VMware, OpenStack and Kubernetes ecosystems, includes strategic alliances with Virtana and other major players to allow more than10 AIOps platforms to coordinate with InfiniBox. This expands the options that customers have to leverage the power of AIOps across their multi-vendor environments.

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