GreenBytes has announced the Solidarity; a high availability (HA), globally optimized SSD storage array with capacities greater than its competitors. Designed to meet the needs of the small and medium enterprises, Solidarity features the GreenBytes Globally Optimized Operating System (GO OS), including inline real-time deduplication and compression. Additionally, it packages enterprise-class features into an SSD dual-controller and offers 3.5 TB (15 TB effective) to 13.5 TB (60 TB effective) capable of 120,000 4K IOPS.
GreenBytes has announced the Solidarity; a high availability (HA), globally optimized SSD storage array with capacities greater than its competitors. Designed to meet the needs of the small and medium enterprises, Solidarity features the GreenBytes Globally Optimized Operating System (GO OS), including inline real-time deduplication and compression. Additionally, it packages enterprise-class features into an SSD dual-controller and offers 3.5 TB (15 TB effective) to 13.5 TB (60 TB effective) capable of 120,000 4K IOPS.
With its single data tier, all-solid state platform, GreenBytes’ Solidarity gives the SME market the ability to meet all primary and transactional storage missions, including virtual infrastructure (VM/VDI) and databases. In addition, it uses significantly less power and reduces cooling requirements and rack space, which lowers acquisition cost and TCO. GreenBytes new storage array eliminates traditional tiering and the need for complicated tiering software processes and heuristics by offering large virtual storage pools for single tier storage. Solidarity GO OS also uses unique Smart Write technology to coalesce writes and transactional/synchronous I/O to maximize system endurance and performance.
GreenBytes Solidarity is slated for a late Q1 release.
Solidarity Features:
- GreenBytes GO OS – The GreenBytes GO OS offers customers SAN (iSCSI) connectivity for integrating applications requiring high performance storage. Additionally, the StorageManager administration interface provides graphical tools and wizards to configure, provision iSCSI LUNs and file systems, and subsequent monitoring.
- True Inline Primary Deduplication – With constant refinement, GreenBytes is the only vendor to offer inline deduplication that can withstand the rigorous high I/O write/remove/re-write patterns associated with primary storage missions. Typical data reduction, while variable, can be as high as a 12:1 reduction for certain virtual infrastructure needs and commonly between 5 and 8:1 for databases.
- Block Level Compression – GreenBytes offers both software-based and hardware-accelerated compression options. GreenBytes compression achieves reduction by as much as 3.6X or more and combines in real time with GreenBytes inline deduplication for greater reduction.
- Global Deduplication/Compression for Replication – GreenBytes offers a powerful replication capability that not only provides for continuous data protection, but also optimizes network utilization by compressing and deduplicating replication data over the wire.
- Smart Write Coalescing – Solidarity Smart Write technology de-amplifies writes to the array by orders of magnitude. This increases the service life of the equipment well beyond typical write endurance specifications of MLC SSD used for block and file storage.
- Dual Controllers – Solidarity uniquely delivers dual controller high availability features that are well suited for applications that require this level of availability such as a virtualized iSCSI SAN. The high-performance, Xeon-based controllers are fully redundant and can operate independently and are each equipped with four 1 GbE and two 10 GbE network ports for flexible connectivity and redundancy options for customer environments. Controller swaps occur in just a few seconds, facilitating continuity of service objectives.
- iSCSI ThinProvision Space Reclaim – For Windows and VMware iSCSI environments, GreenBytes systems dynamically return thin provisioned blocks when they are removed from their hosted environments.
- Raw Capacity (Before Deduplication and Compression) – From 3.5 TB (15 TB effective) to 13.5 TB (60 TB effective)
- Decrease Cost, Increase Performance – Even before deduplication and compression optimizations, Solidarity’s SSD capacity provides better cost per GB of storage than traditional high performance arrays, based on 15K RPM Fiber Channel drives, offering 150X the performance. With deduplication and hardware compression, the cost benefit is 10X.
