Atlantis expands software-defined and hyperconverged offerings

By using intelligent software to harness the power of faster and cheaper processing power, memory and flash storage, Atlantis USX eliminates the inefficiencies of SAN and NAS hardware, while delivering all-flash performance. With Atlantis, IT organizations ensure that their storage systems have targeted availability levels that adapt resilience based on the importance of the data or system, which lowers the cost of business continuity. The latest release of Atlantis USX offers new innovations to simplify management of storage across the data center including:

Atlantis USX 3.0 SDS technology delivers expanded data protection and data mobility functionality that enables customers to make the entire data center more agile by provisioning, cloning, snapshotting, replicating, and teleporting virtual machines and data in seconds.

VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOL) certified -- Atlantis USX is the only SDS or hyper-converged solution that is certified for VVOL, enabling VVOL to manage all existing storage in the data center. The VVOL integration with Atlantis USX improves performance and increases the storage efficiency of provisioning, snapshots, clones, and storage vMotion.

Atlantis Insight provides proactive software updates, a user feedback interface, real-time monitoring, and alerts (email, web, SNMP), providing customers with assurance that their infrastructure remains highly available.

"Businesses must continually adapt to market changes and innovate to grow and compete," said Chetan Venkatesh, CEO of Atlantis. "By working with our industry partners we believe we can more quickly and effectively develop disruptive software-defined solutions such as the latest release of Atlantis USX and Atlantis HyperScale appliances to implement a true software-defined data center with radical cost savings and no dependence on proprietary hardware."

"Hyper-converged systems have the potential to significantly influence the storage landscape because they combine two major storage industry trends at once -- the trend toward software-defined infrastructure and the integration of compute, networking, storage, and management into a single integrated product," said Archana Venkatraman, senior research analyst at IDC. "While many storage vendors have accelerated innovation around flash arrays and SDS to bring costs down, the pace of innovation to provide a full suite of data services within hyper-converged appliances has been comparatively slower. Combining SDS technology with rich data services and all-flash storage to deliver robust performances and scalable infrastructure while keeping costs low will accelerate the adoption of hyper-converged appliances for critical enterprise workloads."

Factory Integrated Atlantis HyperScale Appliances
In response to customer demand, OEM server manufacturers and distributors are teaming with Atlantis to make it easier and simpler to acquire and scale hyper-converged deployments. Currently offering a choice of Cisco, HP, Lenovo or SuperMicro hardware worldwide through channel partners, Atlantis will now deliver HyperScale CX-12 and CX-24 all-flash hyper-converged appliances, factory-integrated and shipped directly to customers by server vendors or their distributors. Each Atlantis HyperScale appliance tightly integrates compute, networking and all-flash storage, all with premium 24x7x365 support provided by Atlantis.

HP: Atlantis has signed a new strategic OEM agreement with HP, expanding its existing relationship to offer all-flash hyper-converged appliances, factory-integrated on the world's most popular server platform. Each pre-configured Atlantis HyperScale appliance includes four 1U HP DL360 Gen9 servers with a total of 96 cores (Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3), up to 3TB of RAM, 10GbE network cards, and 12 or 24TB of guaranteed, all-flash effective storage capacity. All Atlantis HyperScale HP factory-configured appliances come with HP Proactive Care 4-hour onsite service and are available through Arrow Electronics in EMEA, and pre-integrated through Ingram Micro in North America.

SuperMicro: Starting at $85,000 for a 12TB all-flash four-server cluster, Atlantis HyperScale appliances deliver exceptional performance and cut compute and storage costs by up to 90 percent compared to comparable hyper-converged appliances or traditional server and SAN storage. HyperScale appliances are now available factory-configured through SuperMicro in North America and EMEA, and pre-integrated through Ingram Micro in North America.
Cisco and Lenovo: Atlantis will now offer HyperScale appliances pre-integrated on Cisco and Lenovo servers through Ingram Micro in North America as well as existing partners in EMEA.