Platform promises to disrupt data storage market

"IT can't even predict storage requirements three months out, nevermind the three to five years that typify storage refreshes," said Avinash Lakshman, founder and CEO of Hedvig. "Hedvig doesn't assume companies will know everything at once, then saddle them with a deployment that will cost them more time, energy and budget when it obsolesces. The platform adapts to existing storage assets as well as future storage purchases -- whether proprietary or commodity."

The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform collapses disparate storage systems into a single platform, creating a virtualized pool that provisions storage with a few clicks. Policy and provisioning processes that normally take hours, days or weeks now take just a few clicks and can even be performed from mobile devices.
"The current wave of user anticipation around software-defined storage (SDS) has looked at times ready to crash on the rocks of limited product abilities and deployment constraints," said Mark Peters, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "However, the validity of the category will benefit greatly from the arrival of solutions such as Hedvig's, which is designed to fulfill the full potential of SDS with its combination of functional completeness, flexibility, economy and simplicity."

Customers like Intuit, Dovilo, Van Dijk and Paul Hastings LLP use Hedvig to provision storage for legacy, virtualized, cloud and even emerging application environments like Hadoop and NoSQL. Hedvig also helps customers embrace new compute environments like Docker and OpenStack by removing the storage bottleneck.

Companies use Hedvig to:

Easily support all applications and workloads: Hedvig's patented distributed systems capabilities deliver a complete set of storage protocols and services that are not just hardware-agnostic, but compute-agnostic. Hedvig enables easy modernization and automation of infrastructure, eliminating the need for overworked IT departments to continuously deploy new silos of storage for specific applications or workloads.
Streamline storage operations: The Hedvig platform provides a user interface with AWS-like simplicity for complicated administrative workflows. Administrators can provision storage assets from any device and provide self-service access to customers, developers and IT staff, reducing the time and expertise needed to use storage technology and empowering employees at all levels to contribute to overall business success.
Maximize cloud investments with choice: Hedvig's architecture is cloud-enabled and supports both hyperscale and hyperconverged modes, enabling businesses to choose the type of elastic storage that best meets their needs. It has the capacity to scale from several terabytes to petabytes and seamlessly spans on-premise, private and public clouds. Customers benefit from an elastic, hybrid cluster that can grow incrementally to thousands of nodes by simply adding additional commodity servers.
Reduce CAPEX and OPEX: With on-premise and cloud data center costs often prohibitively expensive at scale, the deployment flexibility of the Hedvig platform makes modern storage a cost-effective reality as the business grows. The built-in provisioning, automation and programmable APIs inherent in the platform reduces capital and operational expenditures and ensures maximum return on cloud-computing investments regardless of the pre-existing storage architecture.