All-Flash enterprise appliance from Pivot3

Austin, Texas – June 23, 2015 —Pivot3, a pioneer and innovator in the development of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, today announced the general availability of its new hyper-converged all-flash enterprise appliance.

“Due to the premium price of flash technology, businesses need to maximize the amount of flash storage and IOPS available for workloads such as VDI deployments and other demanding applications. Pivot3’s hyper-converged all-flash appliances provide more performance per appliance, which translates into savings for customers.”

The need for all-flash HCI solutions is growing exponentially as enterprises look to enhance the ability of IT to flexibly support new business initiatives and maximize the efficiency of servers dedicated to powering demanding workloads. Pivot3’s new all-flash HCI appliances are specifically designed to provide maximum input/output operations per second (IOPS) for high-performance applications while reducing the cost and complexity of legacy separate server and storage systems. The new all-flash HCI offering from Pivot3 introduces a modular, cost-effective way to scale data centers with the cloud-like benefits of pay-as-you-grow flexibility.

Through vSTAC’s innovative global hyper-converged architecture, customers get close-to-the-metal performance that eliminates high-cost ingredients like fiber channel. By maintaining fully coherent caching and storage across all nodes in the array, Pivot3 automatically load-balances performance-sensitive workloads like virtual desktops, analytics and other latency-sensitive virtualized workloads.

“Competitive offerings overwhelmingly feature replication-based data protection, which results in very little usable storage after copies are made,” says Francois Wolf, CMO of Pivot3. “Due to the premium price of flash technology, businesses need to maximize the amount of flash storage and IOPS available for workloads such as VDI deployments and other demanding applications. Pivot3’s hyper-converged all-flash appliances provide more performance per appliance, which translates into savings for customers.”

The Pivot3 all-flash high-performance offering joins a wide array of high-capacity systems offering a way for customers to combine different Pivot3 HCI appliances through a central management system. Only Pivot3 offers such a wide range of rack, blades, hybrid and all-flash options to accommodate customer workloads.

The new appliance is powered by Pivot3’s patented global hyper-convergence technology, which creates a homogeneous pool of solid-state drive (SSD) resources across appliances in the array to maximize performance of any application. For example, when combined with the very high IOPS of flash drives, Pivot3’s all-flash hyper-converged appliances support more than two times the workload hosting of competing offerings, resulting in significantly lower total cost of ownership for businesses across user categories.

Patented Scalar Erasure Coding gives Pivot3’s HCI technology the ability to yield up to 94 percent usable storage, rendering it optimally suited to provide maximum efficiency from premium all-flash technology. Pivot3’s unique storage efficiency makes migrating to an all-flash infrastructure economically viable. Using a flash-based array, enterprises can realize long-term cost savings while ensuring seamless scalability as operational needs grow. Pivot3’s HCI technology based on Scalar Erasure Coding allows users of Dell’s innovative SSD-based servers to get maximum performance, higher processing availability and lowers the total cost of operations.

Pivot3’s global hyper-converged platform, vSTAC OS, can be easily customized and scaled depending on the size of the IT infrastructure, allowing administrators to set capacity levels, performance settings, and availability requirements. Other hyper-converged solutions are only “local” in the sense that they allow VMs to access resources efficiently only on the server where they reside, and use replication and deduplication for data integrity and storage capacity which consumes available space and processing capacity.

Pivot3 has architected a solution that is highly optimized to conserve compute power, requiring less overhead thus leaving more cycles to power demanding workloads. vSTAC OS can function efficiently using as little as 6 percent of local resources, preserving all remaining resources for running workloads chosen by the user. This translates to more useable system resources for a lower cost per virtual machine.

“Performance is the driving factor for the vast majority of companies considering a solid-state storage array,” said Ron Pugh, Executive Director/GM of Dell OEM Solutions. “Pivot3’s all-flash hyper-converged appliance creates future-ready enterprises with more usable storage and compute performance to power applications, as well as a higher performance value.”

Pivot3’s announcement of All-flash HCI Enterprise appliances completes the hyper-converged product line which now includes hybrid, all-flash, blade, and data appliances.

Pivot3’s announcement comes on the heels of several recent executive-level additions to their sales team, each with proven track records from major IT companies. The combination of unique patented technology, talented people and innovation has Pivot3 well-positioned for dramatic growth.