Yottabyte has released yStor 2.3, the latest version of its software platform. yStor is a cloud-based storage platform which enables businesses to build their own cloud environments with data protection and scale-out building block appliances. It is designed for companies that want to build scalable data storage infrastructures with information in multiple locations while keeping it protected and synchronized.
Yottabyte yStor 2.3 operates entirely within a software construct, separating the configuration from the physical resources. According to Yottabyte, companies using yStor 2.3 can provision a virtual NAS (vNAS) through a web-based user interface, avoiding complex proprietary hardware setup and minimizing the time to deliver service. These infrastructures can be defined and optimized in the software for flash-based performance or hard drive capacity use cases.
Yottabyte yStor 2.3 features include:
- Data Deduplication: Maximize capacity utilization
- Data Protection: Configure and schedule backup and restore operations in combination with snapshot and synchronization capabilities across the distributed storage infrastructure
- Scalability: Scale-out storage capacity or performance resources at will as user requirements grow and change
- Encryption: Data encryption at rest and/or in-flight
- Configurable QoS/Tiered Storage: Ensure the data performance requirements are matched with the most appropriate resources
- Multi-Protocol Access: Multiple ways to access the same data such as web browser and network share protocols
“Yottabyte’s mission is to simplify and automate IT systems by creating a software data center model that achieves all business requirements today and in the future via our flexible software-based architecture. Data storage is the center of our technology. Our data center software platform allows the virtualization of storage, compute and networking resources to allow data and operations to move seamlessly in the data center and between data centers with minimal configuration,” says Greg Campbell, vice president of technology of Yottabyte. “We show people that without having to use expensive and complicated systems, they can build robust cloud computing environments using affordable equipment and smart software while maintaining that infrastructure with general IT skills.”
yStor 2.3 is available now as a monthly co-hosted, on-premise service, or as a scale-out building block appliance. For cloud storage services, yStor costs $0.15 cents per GB of data on disk per month. Scale-out building blocks range from remote office configurations with 4TB of storage, up to archive building blocks exceeding 360TB each. Yottabyte’s yStor Community Edition is available to evaluate for free now at http://www.yottabyte.com.
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