Hyperconverged infrastructure hci, and softwaredefined storage but what truly is. Company maxta news, employees and funding information. I didnt apply, they reached out to me through the phone call. The latest study report on the global softwaredefined storagesds market research 20202026 exclusively discusses the upcoming trends alongside an indepth analysis of the regional. Maxta hyperconvergence software gives it the freedom to choose servers and hypervisors, scale storage independent of compute, and run mixed workloads on the same cluster. Maxta mxsp softwaredefined storage solutions provide organizations the choice to deploy hyperconvergence on any x86 server, use any hypervisor, and any combination of storage devices. Newcomer maxta exits stealth to converge compute, storage.
Global softwaredefined storagesds industry analysis. Maxta has reinvented storage to reduce cost and complexity. Server san software upstart maxta gets intels cash inside. Softwaredefined storage the devil is in the details maxta. Maxta, a developer of the vmcentric storage platform mxsp, offers five tips for evaluating softwaredefined storage. The enhanced maxta storage software identifies an application at the vm level and applies best practices to optimize its storage.
I interviewed at maxta santa clara, ca in july 2019. Maxta hyperconvergence software and hyperconverged appliances offer unparalleled choice of servers and virtualization while eliminating costly disk arrays. Maxta, which launched last year, has developed software that lets commodity servers handle storage in addition to their other tasks, eliminating the need for specialized storage arrays and. Maxtas flexible architecture allows its mxsp softwaredefined storage to run on any compute abstraction layer, either virtualization or containers, and is the first to create a data management. Maxta hyperconvergence software reduces capital and operating costs by up to 70 percent and frees it. In this slidecast, yoram novick from maxta describes the companys new softwaredefined, vmcentric storage solutions. Maxta mxsp softwaredefined storage solutions provide organizations the choice to deploy hyperconvergence on any x86 server, using any hypervisor and any combination of storage devices. Maxta mxsp software runs on x86 servers, and is sold standalone or packaged on appliances by. The applicationdefined templates recommend optimal. Maxta lets you run multiple applications on the same cluster without sacrificing performance or availability. The first is a hardware defined model where the hyperconverged software and server hardware are bundled together and sold as a turnkey system. Startups technology partner intel joins tenaya capital and previous investor andreessen horowitz in series b round.
Maxta introduces applicationdefined storage and hyper. Software defined storage for hyperconverged spiceworks. The maxta mxsp maxta storage platform is a softwarebased hyperconverged storage platform. Maxta softwaredefined, vmcentric storage solutions youtube. The softwaredefined storage universe expanded today with the unveiling of vsan by vmware and all of us at maxta are excited by the news from our longstanding development partner, vmware. Maxta storage platform or mxsp is a software defined storage solution which converges storage and compute into a single industry, off the shelf server. Maxta, which specializes in softwarebased hyperconvergence for enterprise storage systems, on sept. Service providers can maximize cloud offerings using maxta softwaredefined storage to create hyperconverged infrastructure.
These predictions were written by yoram novick, founder and ceo, maxta inc. Designed to scale up and scale out on commodity servers and storage devices, maxta solutions provide substantial capex and opex savings along with the flexibility to easily deploy and redeploy resources. Storage field day 7 maxta hyperconvergence faststorage. Maxta mxsp, or nexenta do these not work with hyperv or no one has experience with them. Its hypervisor agnostic, highly resilient, scalable, softwaredefined vmcentric storage platform enables the convergence of applications, server virtualization and storage on standard. It collapses servers, storage, and networking into a single server tier and allows it to use. Maxta has developed a hypervisor agnostic, highly resilient, scalable, softwaredefined vmcentric storage platform. Software licensing is based on raw storage capacity. Maxta, a developer of the vmcentric storage platform mxsp that turns standard servers into a converged compute and storage solution for virtualized environments, offers the following five tips for evaluating.
Maxtas softwareonly option replaces a traditional storage area. It enables the convergence of applications, server virtualization and. Unlike hyperconverged appliances, with maxta theres no vendor lockin, no refresh tax and no upgrade tax. Maxta debuts softwaredefined storage for virtualization internet. Update maxta recognized on crns inaugural software. Maximize the promise of hyperconvergence 2 introduction this paper covers a solution with maxta storage software running in a vmware vsphere. It collapses servers, storage, and networking into a single server tier and allows it to use existing servers, buy preconfigured servers, or use a combination of both. Maxta storage gets applicationdefined storage tuning. Maxta presents software defined storage for vsphere.
Maxta founder presents on softwaredefined storage at snia. Maxta executives said the goal is to provide an easy migration path for customers to move from esxi to rhv. Softwaredefined storage for hyperconverged infrastructure maxta. Maxtas flexible architecture allows its mxsp softwaredefined storage to run on any compute abstraction layer, either virtualization or containers, and is the first to create a data. Maxta debuts softwaredefined storage for virtualization. Maxta hyperconvergence software gives it the freedom to choose servers and hypervisors, scale storage independent of compute, and run mixed workloads on. Contact sales vmcentric, softwaredefined storage platform maxta. The world of softwaredefined storage officially gains another player today as maxta formally launches their company along side the flagship maxta storage platform mxsp, already generally available. Moving your data and applications to the cloud isnt the easiest of. Simplified microsoft exchange deployments using maxta.
Most storage and even hyperconverged solutions can only manage policies at the lun, volume, or cluster level. Maxta hyperconvergence software reduces capital and operating costs by up to 70 percent and frees it from the refresh and upgrade cycles of traditional storage. Moving to and between clouds made simple with elastifile cloud file system. The reference architecture enables customers to make intelligent hardware choices when deploying. Having intel, a worldclass technology leader, work with maxta to provide customers the most efficient storage solution for the virtual data center supports the approach we are delivering to the enterprise. Intel invests in maxta to get softwaredefined storage on. While it might seem a little strange to be excited for the arrival of a competitive product to maxta s mxsp, we have multiple reasons to be happy. Five considerations when choosing softwaredefined storage. In addition to novicks insights on softwaredefined storage, the dsi conference will.
Today maxta came out of stealth mode and presented the world their software defined storage solution for vmware vsphere which looks like a perfect mix of vmware. Maxtas new solutions allow its mxsp softwaredefined storage to run on any compute abstraction layer, either virtualization or containers, and is the first to create a data management layer. The softwaredefined storage approach to hyperconvergence. Provide storage solution for the virtual data center leverage softwaredefined storage and serverside ssdhdd to significantly lower storage cost without compromising. Maxta founder presents on softwaredefined storage at snias data storage innovation conference. Maxta offers a scalable, softwaredefined, vmcentric storage platform for enterprises. Maxta states that this will allow users to maximize the promise of hyperconvergence by allowing them to optimize their applications. Storage newcomer maxta came out of stealth mode nov. Maxta provides its storage solution as the softwareonly maxta storage platform mxsp and as. Maxta hyperconverged sw flips off vmware for red hat. Licensing based on raw capacity might sound strange and expensive at first with raid1 protection in mind, but consider the fact that the usable. Mxsp is maxtas softwaredefined storage platform that runs as a vm on each node, creating a single storage pool with a global name space for the cluster to access via nfs.
Maxta mxsp softwaredefined storage solutions provide organizations the choice to deploy hyperconvergence on any x86 server, using any hypervisor and any. Maxta mxsp softwaredefined storage solutions provide organizations the choice to deploy hyperconvergence on any x86 server, using any hypervisor and any combination of storage. Maxta releases free hyperconvergence storage software. Softwaredefined storagesds marketimpact of covid19.
Its been called server san, hyperconvergence, hyperconvergence. Maxta introduces hyperconverged unappliance with maxta. Maxta mxsp lauded for softwaredefined storage products. Maxtas unique software approach to hyperconvergence enables it to scale storage independent of compute, run mixed workloads on the same cluster, and eliminate the hyperconverged.
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