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The StorONE Podcast Series Launched on the Future of Data Storage

Taylor Graham — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:30:28 +0000

StorONE is excited to introduce The StorONE Podcast, a new series that delves into entrepreneurship, innovative technology, and the dynamic world of data storage. StorONE Solution Architect James Keating hosts the podcast and offers valuable insights from industry experts and StorONE’s thought leaders.

In The StorONE Podcast premiere episode, StorONE’s CEO and Co-Founder, Gal Naor, shares his entrepreneurial journey. After successfully founding Storwize and overseeing its acquisition by IBM, Naor recognized an even greater opportunity to disrupt the storage industry once again. He founded StorONE with the mission to create ONE Storage Platform that solves the industry’s most pressing challenges—delivering unmatched performance, scalability, and cost efficiency while supporting all workloads.

“The first episode is deeply meaningful to me,” said Naor. “It’s a story of leveraging the lessons I have learned in my three decades in the industry to push the boundaries of what’s possible in storage technology. With The StorONE Podcast, we aim to share our industry knowledge and spark important conversations that highlight innovation and provide actionable insights for anyone navigating the complex world of data storage. I am excited for listeners to join us on this journey.”

James Keating, who brings his unique experience as both a solution architect and a former radio host, explained the inspiration behind the podcast: “We created this podcast to break down the complexities of data storage, share real-world experiences from industry experts, and inspire conversations that help drive innovation forward,” said Keating. “I’m excited to be back on the airwaves, combining my passion for technology and broadcasting. My goal is for every episode to offer something valuable—whether you’re an entrepreneur, IT professional, or just curious about the future of storage.”

The StorONE Podcast will release bi-weekly episodes covering key topics such as:

Leveraging AI in storage solutions
Strategic planning for long-term success
Overcoming obstacles in scaling storage startups
Navigating the balance between innovation and risk

The podcast is available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeart Radio.

To learn more about The StorONE Podcast Series, visit the website here.

NVMe-oF Users Can Integrate StorONE HDDs Reducing Costs

Taylor Graham — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:23:52 +0000

StorONE announced that it is the first company to enable hard disk drive (HDD) connectivity to NVMe-oF infrastructures, dramatically reducing the cost of an NVMe solution by 10X or more. Up to now, NVMe-oF was an infrastructure for all-flash arrays, and archiving less-active data to a less expensive tier like HDD required adding another storage silo and transferring that data to another network. This update to StorONE’s platform solves this problem enabling NVMe-oF access to both NVMe SSD, and HDDs on ONE storage solution and one storage network.

StorONE’s Enterprise Storage Platform can connect to the network via NVMe-oF and manage NVMe SSDs as the primary tier while automatically less active data moves to the HDD tier. Users benefit from ONE platform that can deliver millions of IOPS and decades of affordable retention.

“Our platform approach to storage not only means supporting a wide variety of use cases but also new protocols, like NVMe-oF. At the same time, we make sure our customers can continue to leverage their existing investment, eliminating the need for costly storage migrations.” said Gal Naor, CEO of StorONE. “To date, vendors have used NVMe-oF solely to advance their all-flash agendas, which only accelerates the cost of storage. We now give customers the best way to leverage NVMe-oF and continue to drive down the cost of storage.”

Users looking to move to NVMe-oF can use StorONE’s Enterprise Storage Platform’s ability to support multiple protocols simultaneously enabling them to transition at their pace. They can leverage existing infrastructure with protocols like iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NFS, SMB, or S3 while at the same time making investments in NVMe-oF going forward, without migrating data. The ability to support hard disk drives within that architecture and automatically tier data enables them to build the most cost-effective NVMe-oF infrastructure available on the market today.

Companies that have already completed their NVMe-oF transition but are looking to archive to cost-effective HDD technology can start using StorONE as an NVMe attached HDD archive target. Thanks to its ability to provide affordable capacity and high performance, it can then add performance-sensitive workloads to the platform as its need demands.

Current StorONE Customers

Existing StorONE customers can add the HDD over NVMe-oF capability through a simple software update at no additional charge. StorONE continues to lead the storage industry with a single platform that grows with its customers adding new protocols and media, enabling them to enjoy a migration-free, future-proof storage infrastructure.

To learn more about leveraging HDD within an NVMe Infrastructure visit the website here.

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StorONE’s Collaboration with Seagate Provides an Attractive Total Cost of Ownership For High-Capacity Systems

Taylor Graham — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:25:03 +0000

In the never-ending quest to keep data storage infrastructure costs down, IT professionals can again turn to StorONE and Seagate ® Technology to gain the upper hand. StorONE offers a bundled solution with Seagate’s Exos ® AP5U84 helping lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

“Seagate is a leader in storage data infrastructure, and our Exos AP series makes for the perfect turnkey system for data center professionals. When combined with StorONE’s Enterprise Storage Platform, the Exos AP is a storage workhorse solving a wide range of use cases including backup, archive, VMware and database environments,” said Mike Herbig, Sr. Director of Sales and Marketing for Seagate.”

StorONE’s S1:Enterprise Storage Platform combine with Exos AP enables customers to take a step-by-step approach to consolidation. Organizations can start using the solution as backup storage to reduce backup windows and meet even more stringent recovery requirements while lowering costs. Then they can use the same platform to later address archive, NAS, VMware and even database workloads. The platform’s built-in auto-tiering makes sure that performance-demanding workloads are satisfied while leveraging very cost-effective, high-capacity hard disks for less active data.

“The increasing price of storage and limited availability creates a significant challenge for IT as they try to keep pace with ever-increasing organizational demands,” said Gal Naor, CEO and Co-founder of StorONE. “With StorONE software and Exos AP, IT professionals can stay ahead of organizational expectations with a platform that is flexible enough to adapt to any workload IO requirement while significantly reducing both the CAPEX and OPEX of storage,” he also said.

While StorONE with Seagate’s Exos AP lowers TCO, it also maximizes data protection. First, StorONE writes all data to persistent media. The efficiency of the StorONE platform delivers high performance, cacheless architecture, without depending on a risky write cache. Second, the platform includes StorONE’s vRAID, which provides three plus drive redundancies and rapid high-density hard disk drive rebuilds. Third, the Platform includes S1:Snap, StorONE’s unique snapshot feature that can take a snapshot every minute and retain those snapshots for decades without impacting performance. S1:Snap provides the ultimate protection against a ransomware attack. Finally, S1:Replicate provides synchronous and asynchronous data replication within the data center and off-site to a remote location, an MSP, or the public cloud.

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