07 June 2016
Lenovo claims its new object storage appliances will disrupt the $87 billion data centre technology market.
The company will use Cloudian HyperStore as the object storage software for its new StorSelect DX8200C appliance. It claims the device will deliver HyperStore’s full S3 compatibility, unlimited scalability, multi-tenancy and data policy management in an easy to deploy and support appliance.
The new Lenovo-Cloudian integrated appliance is said to be ideal for enterprises and managed service providers that need petabyte scale data storage, particularly for backup and archive, data recovery, private/hybrid cloud and IoT use cases.
According to Lenovo, software defined storage is vital in creating “unfettered” scale for next generation data centres. It reckons the DX8200C will make it simple for enterprises, managed service providers and value-added resellers to “transform traditional proprietary data storage to smart software-defined object storage at one cent per gigabyte per month”.
It adds that Cloudian’s S3 compatibility enables integration with thousands of applications and ISVs within AWS’ ecosystem.
“The Lenovo-Cloudian partnership will disrupt the $87bn data centre technology market with cost-effective, infinitely scalable and fully integrated software-defined object storage,” said Michael Tso, CEO and co-founder of Cloudian.
“Enterprises and value-added resellers can maximise their business investment and revenue opportunities with this fully turnkey, channel-ready, 100 per cent S3 object storage solution.”