StorONE, a leader in real-time tiering architecture, announced StorONE Version 4.0, introducing an architecture that enables existing third-party All-Flash Arrays to immediately serve as the high-performance flash tier of StorONE Real-Time Tiering (RTT).
Flash supply chains are expected to remain under increasing pressure as demand for high-performance infrastructure continues to grow. As organizations face longer delivery timelines and increasing costs, many are evaluating how to maximize the value of infrastructure assets they already own, according to StorONE.
Previous versions of StorONE enabled organizations to leverage spare flash resources and retired systems as part of StorONE Real-Time Tiering. With Version 4.0, organizations can now allocate available capacity from active production All-Flash Arrays to serve as the high-performance flash tier of StorONE Real-Time Tiering, unlocking significantly more value from existing flash investments, the company said.
With the latest version of StorONE, existing All-Flash Array systems can now serve as the high-performance flash tier by allocating a portion of their flash capacity to StorONE Real-Time Tiering volumes, while StorONE-managed HDD capacity serves as the lower-cost capacity tier. Both operate together as part of StorONE’s ONE Volume Architecture.
Applications continue to see a single volume while StorONE automatically balances active and inactive blocks across storage tiers in real time at block-level granularity.
Unlike traditional storage tiering solutions designed primarily for archive environments and cold-data movement, StorONE Real-Time Tiering was specifically designed for active storage environments and continuous real-time optimization. These capabilities are available as part of StorONE Version 4.0, which also includes additional enterprise storage services, said StorONE.
“I’ve had the privilege of helping drive one major shift in enterprise storage before. At Storwize, we challenged the belief that primary storage couldn’t deliver meaningful capacity reduction, and the industry eventually embraced that change,” said Gal Naor, founder and CEO of StorONE. “Today, we’re at a similar inflection point, challenging another long-held assumption, that the answer to growing storage demand is buying more flash. It isn’t. As flash becomes more constrained and more expensive, organizations need to get dramatically more value from the flash they already own.”
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