StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud
Summary
For example, block access has been the main focus, as used by transactional databases (ie, applications that have the most need for the most IOPS), OSs that read and write their volumes to virtual machines or their persistent containers. It’s in that way that we have developed our software-defined storage.” Ivanov said enterprises can add third-party file services to StorPool so a portion of the disk works as NAS. “We use 1GB of RAM and a complete virtual machine per node to manage up to 1PB of data,” said Boyan Krosnov, technical director at StorPool. “That’s the key to offering better performance than arrays from Pure Storage or NetApp all-flash.” When applications are deployed on the same server as the StorPool VM, latency to data on another node can be as low as 70μ. According to a series of tests carried out by the software maker, such services – as measured by UK-based hosting provider Katapult – stayed under 4 milliseconds response time with databases at 10,000 requests per second.