In today’s world, Broadberry customers demand zero downtime. Downtime can be disastrous for many companies, often leading to financial losses for you and a boost for your competitors.
SDS is the next step in the quest for more highly available, flexible and cost-effective storage solutions that separate the storage software from its hardware.
Software defined storage is built to perform on any industry-standard or x86 system, shedding the software’s reliance on proprietary hardware, unlike traditional storage area network (SAN) and traditional networked-attached storage (NAS) symptoms. Old-school traditional storage is monolithic, essentially sold as a bundle of hardware and proprietary software. The real advantage and usefulness of SDS is in the fact that its independent from any particular hardware.
SDS does not actually separate the storage itself from the hardware. Instead its just a layer of your technology stack that provides a multitude of services using industry standard servers rather than proprietary hardware. SDS does not abstract what’s actually stored, rather the things that control storage requests. It is a software layer between the physical storage and the data request that enables you to decide how and where data is stored.
Broadberry software defined storage solutions gives you more control, more freedom and better functionality. Which is why some of the world’s biggest organisations such as CERN, Tesco and Google have invested in it.
One vital area where you can enjoy benefits is with the addition of a number of significant protocols. Many leading server providers charge extra for key protocols, while with Broadberry software defined storage these protocols are included for free. Thin provisioning, data deduplication, iSCSI, fibre channel (FC), NFS, SMB (CIFS), compression and deduplication for improved performance, data resilvering, replication, auto tiering, backup, snapshots, disaster recovery and many more protocols are available with your Broadberry SDS server.
You’re also able to take full advantage of virtualisation as our servers are compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and can be used to create a software defined data centre.
As all features are built into the software, there’s minimal setup of hardware necessary. A lower cost in hardware and a lower cost of maintenance are two perks you enjoy when you choose a Broadberry software defined storage server.
More openness, more efficiency and a lower TCO are the hallmarks of Broadberry SDS servers. Expansion through JBODs is easy and cost-effective, you add as you need and pay as you grow.
Broadberry SDS servers offer flexibility, allowing you to configure and deploy storage systems your way. Choosing the type of hardware and whether to deploy on container, virtual or cloud platforms.
Because of this, its possible to utilise existing hardware rather than needing to purchase a new set of hardware to add functionality. Not only will it extend the life of existing storage assets but it aids in avoiding hardware lock-in and decreases the overall TCO. SDS is future proof and features independence from hardware vendor lock-in.
There are a wide variety of other advantages, including but not limited to future proofing of IT assets, enhanced performance, far greater scalability, better programmability and automation, greater efficiency, and overall agility.
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