SoftIron in Partnership With SUSE Launches HyperDrive Storage Appliances

SoftIron Ltd. partnered with SUSE to provide integration support for HyperDrive storage appliances using HyperDrive Storage plug-in for SUSE Rancher.

HyperDrive storage appliance

Located in the SUSE Rancher Apps and Marketplace, developers using SUSE Rancher, the enterprise Kubernetes management system, can integrate and manage HyperDrive capabilities through the SUSE Rancher container management platform, providing the flexibility of Ceph’s object, block, and file storage protocols in a single unified storage system.

The company, known for its HyperDrive SDS portfolio (purpose-built to deliver optimal Ceph performance), offers task-specific appliances that are optimized around their open source cores. HyperDrive appliances are engineered to maximize the operation of Ceph by eliminating I/O bottlenecks and hardware waste common in storage solutions that use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, and generic firmware and OSs.

The firm’s approach optimizes component-level hardware design to the needs of the software at the source code level, coupled with a streamlined Linux OS (SILinux) and custom firmware. Using this approach, the company produces units purpose-built for performance, eliminating hardware inefficiencies and creating powerful, flexible, and durable SDS in a low-power form factor.

“Ceph provides fantastic flexibility to suit a variety of workload needs, but it has a reputation of being overly complex. We’ve engineered our Ceph-based HyperDrive storage to be a DevOps-friendly system,” said Craig Chadwell, VP, product. “Through integration with container management tools like SUSE Rancher, we’ve abstracted away much of that complexity, while leaving the high level of control, scalability, efficiency, and transparency enterprises need. Whether a container needs access to object, block, or file storage-based systems, through the HyperDrive Storage plug-in for SUSE Rancher, they can consume data in whatever context is needed without requiring HyperDrive knowledge or skills, and without precluding them from using that same storage architecture for any other workloads not based in SUSE Rancher. SoftIron is excited to leverage our relationship with SUSE to help bring this level of flexibility to the SUSE Rancher ecosystem. We look forward to leaning in and growing HyperDrive’s capabilities specific to Kubernetes.“

David Landry, director, solutions partners and alliances, SUSE, said: “SUSE is pleased to have SoftIron as a partner and to have SoftIron’s HyperDrive solutions available for deployment directly from the SUSE Rancher Apps and Marketplace. The work SoftIron has done to make their solution easily consumable via SUSE Rancher and their commitment to open source solutions will be appreciated by the community.”

The company creates appliances for efficient, scale-out data center solutions, delivering performance on all critical metrics, including density, efficiency, capacity, speed, and heat emission. Performance breakthroughs are enabled through task-specific specialization; optimizing the performance of its operating software at a granular level and thus creating the ultimate productization of open source Ceph. The firm controls the entire design and build process, producing all its products within its own manufacturing facilities. As a result, the company offers ‘Secure Provenance’, a transparent and auditable value chain.

The HyperDrive family of storage appliances are available for POC and purchase. The firm offers both traditional purchasing (Capex) and as-a-Service (Opex) options.

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