Composable Infrastructure
Give Your Big Data and AI Agility at Cloud Scale
Software Infrastructure to Seamlessly Run All Your Data Workloads
Just-in-Time Capacity Planning
Data-intensive workloads are difficult to predict in advance. With DriveScale, determine the optimal compute to storage ratio in real-time.
Quick Provisioning
Provision compute, storage and network bandwidth from an automated software solution. Create clusters in seconds. Add or delete compute or storage as needed, on-the-fly. Replace failed elements instantly.
Optimized Resource Usage
With appliances, your configuration is static, unchangeable. DriveScale composability means no more over-provisioning and idle resources. Even better, upgrade compute when you need and sweat your storage as long as you like.
The DriveScale Composable Platform creates high performance, highly available clusters of compute, storage, and network resources optimized to each workload.
Modern Workloads Require a New Approach: Composable Infrastructure
Modern workloads utilize distributed computing architectures (scale-out) to store and process very large data sets at reasonable cost and high performance. Typical examples of these modern workloads are Kubernetes, Hadoop, NoSQL/NewSQL, MPP databases and Object Stores. These modern workloads run on clusters of 100s or 1000s’ of commodity servers with direct-attached storage. Each application has its own cluster with its specific server configuration appropriate for its type of computing.
What’s the Problem?
While scale-out architectures were developed specifically to handle modern workloads, they are inherently inflexible when managing the ratio of compute to storage. Each node or cluster has a fixed ratio of compute to storage, so as application demand changes or data grows, organizations either have to re-configure their clusters or over-provision them to meet dynamic workload needs. The result is excessive spending, underutilized resources and slow response to changing requirements.
What’s the Answer?
Composable Infrastructure is a next-generation data center architecture developed to directly address these issues. Composable Infrastructure uses pools of disaggregated compute and storage resources consisting of disk-lite servers and JBODs/JBOFs (Just a Bunch Of Disks/Flash). Customers can then compose servers and clusters on-the-fly under software control. For the first time, data center resources can be easily and quickly deployed where needed, even between different clusters.
