Pivot3 recently announced the general availability of its new hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) all-flash enterprise appliance. The new appliance joins Pivot3’s wide selection of high-capacity systems and can be combined with their other HCI appliances through their central management system. Pivot3 also announced that Trent Landreth and Jason Peoples have joined their executive team.
Pivot3 recently announced the general availability of its new hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) all-flash enterprise appliance. The new appliance joins Pivot3’s wide selection of high-capacity systems and can be combined with their other HCI appliances through their central management system. Pivot3 also announced that Trent Landreth and Jason Peoples have joined their executive team.
Pivot3 was founded in 2002 with the idea of simplifying virtual servers, shared storage, and networks. The founders developed a software-defined storage through their virtualization and RAID experience. This SDS led to the company’s patented vSTAC (Virtual Storage and Compute that can be ran on any x86 commodity hardware. Pivot3 now has over 1,600 customers and has 220PB of installed storage. Pivot3 is the leading supplier of IP SANs for video surveillance.
There are more and more organizations that are turning their attention to hyper-converged solutions. Not only do organizations want all the benefits of hyper-converged solutions they also want performance to power their applications. Pivot3’s new appliance is designed to deliver high-performance while lowering cost and complexity. The appliance is a modular, cost-effective way to scale data centers with the cloud-like benefits of pay-as-you-grow flexibility.
The new appliance is powered by Pivot3’s vSTAC OS which enable IT resources to easily customize and scale according to their needs. Administrators can set capacity levels, performance settings, and availability requirements. vSTAC gives users close-to-the-metal performance that eliminates high-cost ingredients like fiber channel. The appliance offers features such as automatic load balancing for workloads like VDI and analytics and the appliance only uses 6% of local resources allowing the other 94% to be used by workloads.
The HCI appliance also uses Pivot3’s patented global hyper-convergence technology, which creates a homogeneous pool of SSD resources across appliances in the array to maximize performance of any application. And Pivot3’s states that its Scalar Erasure Coding can yield up to 94% usable storage. This would make companies who are considering migrating to an all-flash infrastructures see it as a more economically viable option.
Between Landreth and Peoples there is 45 years of sales and business development expertise. The new additions to the executive team plan on expanding channel strategies that will help position Pivot3 as a leader in the HCI segment.
Benefits include:
- Fast Flash Performance
- Integral Virtual SAN
- Low Compute Overhead
- Enterprise-Class High Availability
- Unmatched Storage Efficiency
- Ease-of-use
- Pay-as-you-grow appliance model
Availability
The Pivot3 All-Flash HCI appliance is generally available now.
Pivot3 All-Flash Enterprise HCI Appliance
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