Objective-defined storage aims to create a single storage pool from any vendor or storage type to eliminate silos and vendor lock-in. It uses advanced data tiering to move hot data to fast RAM and SSDs, warm data to SSDs and fast disks, and cold data to high-capacity disks or cloud. This improves performance while reducing costs by utilizing commodity hardware. Reliability is improved through artificial intelligence and maintaining multiple live instances of data in different locations. Overall, objective-defined storage aims to reduce costs, improve performance, reliability, and unlock data from proprietary vendors through a software-defined approach.

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Storage Freedom
The new enterprise with rapidly growing virtualisation, Digital Transformation,
IOT, Big Data, Containerisation, Dev/Ops requires a new intelligent storage
platform to drive business transformation = Objective-Defined Storage
and avoiding vendor lock-in
Objective-Defined Storage
Create a single
storage pool
SAN and NAS products are over 20 years old and were
developed for the physical world.
They simply can't deliver the scalability, reliability,
performance or value needed by the new enterprise.
In the new enterprise all storage regardless of vendor,
make or model needs to be seen as a single storage pool.
Data is decoupled from the underlying hardware including
RAM, SSD, AFA, SAN, NAS, DAS, JBOD, and CLOUD.
Any vendor, any storage, Completely storage agnostic.
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Eliminate storage silos, forklift
upgrades and vendor lock-in
Data freedom is finally here
Advanced
data tiering
Typically 50 to 80 per cent of all data is COLD.
Using advanced real-time data tiering, hot data is moved
to RAM and you fastest SSDs, warm data is moved to
SSDs and your fastest spinning disks with cold data
migrated to your highest capacity, lowest costs disks or
the cloud, including AWS, AZURE and Google.
In the new enterprise, the application objectives control
where data resides.
This is called Objective-Defined Storage.
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Use commodity RAM and SSD
instead of expensive,
proprietary All Flash Arrays
Add value
performance
If any of your applications require more performance, simply add
RAM or commodity SSDs and let the platform allocate it to the
applications that need it, when they need it. EASY.
When specific data is no longer needed in RAM, it is moved to
SSD, then to spinning disks - freeing up your expensive, high
performance storage resources to deliver exceptional
performance all the time and in real-time.
Consider adding 512GB ($6000) RAM, Intel Optane ($1500 /
375GB) and some SSDs ($500 - $1000 / TB) to a host and
performance will soar for ALL applications as excess
performance can be shared with other applications and even
across the entire network.
Typically 2 to 10 per cent of data is hot and 10 to 20 percent of
data is warm - utilise your fastest resources for the hottest data.
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Add commodity
capacity
Commodity is not about using the cheapest - it is about
using the right storage for the right outcomes. As data
becomes aged or stale, it does not need to reside on
expensive performance storage.
Objective-Defined Storage understands your data and
moves it to the right medium at the right phase in its
lifecycle to deliver performance combined with value.
Maximise your existing investment in storage whilst
future proofing your data and your storage.
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How much of your COLD data
is on expensive storage?
Commodity disk or cloud for
cold data
Reliability driven by
artificial intelligence
The new enterprise needs improved data reliability, availability
and resilience.
AI and self-healing are required to change the reliability paradigm.
Advanced technologies deliver 2 to 8 Live Instances of data in
multiple locations instead of RAID.
Each Live Instance is updated in unison without traditional
replication and each is able to instantly serve up data in the
event that multiple storage devices fail.
Failures are to be expected on storage hardware - it is how you
deal with simultaneous multiple failures without impacting
production workloads that ensures reliability.
Multiple Live Instances in
multiple locations
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Driven by AI and SWARM
technologies
Deliver exceptional
value
Reduce cost and complexity from your storage.
Expand your storage with commodity storage whilst you
leverage your existing investment in your current storage
hardware.
The intelligence is built into the software platform using
Objective-Defined Storage.
Single dashboard for all your data management.
Orchestrating and automating almost every task reduces
downtime, costs and complexity whilst improving
performance, availability and reliability.
Storage becomes a business enabler, not an inhibitor.
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Reduce storage costs
Deliver previously
unattainable outcomes
Just like virtualisation changed how you use and manage
servers - and it didn't care if you had DELL, HPE, Lenovo or
white box servers underneath.
Objective-Defined Storage does the same to your data.
Your data is finally free from expensive, proprietary storage
vendors, storage silos and vendor lock-in.
Watch performance soar through the roof and costs plummet
while delivering previously unattainable levels of performance,
capacity, reliability and value.
Transform your storage, transform your business.
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Unlock your storage
Release your data
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