Pivot3 has recently announced collaboration with a few vendors, bringing its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to vendors such as Dell, Amulet Hotkey, and Tracewell. Pivot3 is teaming with Dell to deliver HCI on PowerEdge FX2 servers, giving high performance on extremely dense form factors. With Amulet Hotkey, Pivot3 is bringing its HCI to Amulet Hotkey’s workstation clients. And Pivot3 and Tracewell will deliver purpose-built HCI solutions to military and defense customers.
Pivot3 has recently announced collaboration with a few vendors, bringing its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to vendors such as Dell, Amulet Hotkey, and Tracewell. Pivot3 is teaming with Dell to deliver HCI on PowerEdge FX2 servers, giving high performance on extremely dense form factors. With Amulet Hotkey, Pivot3 is bringing its HCI to Amulet Hotkey’s workstation clients. And Pivot3 and Tracewell will deliver purpose-built HCI solutions to military and defense customers.
Pivot3 is combining its HCI with Dell’s PowerEdge FX2 servers to give users a highly dense, hyper-converged system. This joint platform leverages Pivot3’s Scalar Erasure Coding to eliminate wasteful replication and making up to 94% of raw flash storage capacity available. Users can also see performance up to 320,000 IOPS per 2U enclosure. The joint platform can be combined with Pivot3’s standard rack-mounted all-flash HCI nodes giving the optimal balance of performance, density and capacity to flexibly match the needs of any workload. Four PowerEdge FX2 servers running Pivot3’s software creates a 4×4 Scalar Erasure Coding Protection Group that can be scaled-out linearly without limitations.
Pivot3 is working with Amulet Hotkey to bring its HCI to Amulet Hotkey’s clients making Amulet Hotkey the first company to deliver HCI technology with Dell’s PowerEdge M1000e and Dell PowerEdge FX2 systems to support workstation-class applications for Enterprise, Defense, and Engineering markets. Leveraging NVIDIA’s new GRID 2.0 M6 Datacenter GPU for graphics acceleration technology, Amulet Hotkey’s CoreStation solution will run within Dell PowerEdge M1000e platform with Pivot3’s software making hyper-convergence possible on premium, dense, all-flash hardware.
Amulet Hotkey will use the Dell PowerEdge FX2 platform to deliver its existing dedicated PCoIP workstations for Finance and Defense applications by leveraging Pivot3’s ability to support VDI and provide SAN storage in the same architecture. Pivot3 and Amulet Hotkey joint dense platform enables users to run graphically intense applications with the efficiency of blades but the simplicity and cost of rack-based systems.
And finally, Pivot3 will be working with Tracewell to design solutions specifically for military and defense purposes. Pivot3’s HCI will be leveraged by Tracewell to enable application virtualization, maximize useable storage and ensure high survivability. The combined technologies will give defense customers the high-performance compute power, secure data storage, and low power footprint in a compact solution that can be deployed on a variety of military platforms ranging from airborne and surface, to sub-surface. The platform will use Pivot3’s Scalar Erasure Coding technology to give the data protection or high survivability.
The combined solution will offer a variety of benefits enabling its customers to run workloads such as Big Data analytics, virtualization and high performance computing. And it will allow customers to reap the financial benefits of commercial off-the-shelf hardware platforms as opposed to custom military hardware. This gives customers a better cost structure, better long-term availability, and an easier upgrade path from an x86 server technology platform all within a smaller footprint.
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