Software company Excelero Inc. will be delivering its NVMesh storage solutions to Azure, the public cloud service by tech firm Microsoft, reported HPC Wire. This move comes in response to requests for the company to bring its services to various public clouds.
Excelero’s workloads are known for being I/O intensive tackling various aspects including artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and data analytics. These workloads can be applied for various use cases including public clouds.
Its new software NVMesh is defined on its website as “a 100% software-based solution” that “was built to give customers maximum flexibility in designing storage infrastructures.”
The introduction of NVMesh to Microsoft Azure can help the service amp up its offerings. It is expected to provide up to 25x more IOPs and up 10x more bandwidth. It is also expected to minimize latency by 80%, as per Excelero’s beta testing results.
With the help of this solution, Azure will also be able to run a database, analytics workloads, and computations with more efficiency. It can also provide more security through data mirroring across local NVMes.
The software-defined software solution firm also said that its block storage lets clients share NVMe storage to any network. It also allows or distributed file system.
Chief business officer Edo Ganot said that its integration with Microsoft Azure is a fulfillment of customer requests to enable NVMesh in public clouds. He said, “They were typically just limiting their public cloud activity to the less I/O intensive workloads” as they are not able to implement this on their own.
Azure is just the first to be supported by the company. The company has plans to expand its offerings to other public clouds including Google Cloud Platform and AWS in 2021.
Excelero CEO Yaniv Romem is optimistic about this partnership with Microsoft. He said, “It’s a big deal for us from a marketing perspective and from the way we do business. From a technical standpoint, it’s an extension of what we do, it’s a new capability in our product they can now work on these environments. It’s not radically changing the output or the outcome of what our product provides.”
Likewise, Microsoft is positive that including NVMesh in its public cloud offering will provide more benefit to its customers. Azure’s HPC product manager Aman Verma sees this as an “exciting,” “scalable,” and “protected” addition to the service, as per Blocks and Files.
