customers about wide-area challenges; getting data to and from the public cloud as well as managing data movement in globally distributed workflows, “according to Chief Marketing Officer Mike Davis, “You can’t meet these emerging workflow needs with traditional SAN and NAS architectures. With NooBaa, resources can be arbitrarily dispersed across wide-area networks, and smart software does the hard work managing data placement. Even for customers that don’t have distributed teams and cloud aspirations, we’re finding that NooBaa is just so much easier to deploy and manage compared to traditional clustered architectures, with no sacrifice in performance, security, or control.”
NooBaa’s breakthrough was the development of a virtual control-plane system that runs completely outside the data-path of the system. This “NooBaa Core” serves as the metadata system, management system, and decision-making system, issuing instructions to storage resources. “With our orchestration approach to storage design, we’re the first and only solution that can optimize data placement across a heterogeneous, dispersed, and dynamically changing resource landscape,” says Dimnik.
The NooBaa Community Edition product is available as a free download for small-scale deployments, and an Enterprise Edition (licensed with a cloud-like $-per-data-stored model) will be available in early 2017.
If NooBaa’s scale-out storage solution’s claims prove true, NooBaa promises a substantially different customer experience as compared to existing object storage and NAS systems, translating into multiple benefits for the datacenter:
• The solution deploys from download to production in 15 minutes.
• With no up-front cost and ability to use existing physical and virtual infrastructure, deploying NooBaa can mean zero up-front cost
• Accommodates and takes advantage of completely heterogeneous capacity resources.
• Can seamlessly incorporate
new technologies over the lifecycle without administrative intervention.
• Can even utilize shared resources across disparate hosts, playing nicely with other host workloads.
• Can easily incorporate resources from the public cloud, multi-cloud, or distributed WAN facilities in a single system.
• NooBaa is the only clustered storage solution that can shrink.
• In addition to the unique capabilities above, NooBaa assures enterprise capabilities such as global deduplication, compression, self-healing, replication, data fingerprinting, and encryption for the full data-path and data at rest.
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