by Angela Guess

According to a recent press release, “AMAX, a leading provider of Cloud/IaaS, Deep Learning, Enterprise computing infrastructure solutions, today announced the release of StorMax™ SDS, a software defined storage solution enabling customers around the world to transform their storage infrastructure, increasing flexibility and agility, simplifying management, and dramatically reducing storage infrastructure costs without compromising on Availability, Reliability or Functionality. AMAX StorMax™ SDS is a highly available software-designed storage solution that delivers unified file and block storage services with enterprise-grade data management, data integrity, and performance that can easily scale from tens of Terabytes to Petabytes. Seamlessly integrated with NexentaStor, the plug and play appliances are designed to be a simple swap-in replacement of legacy block and file storage appliances, offering unlimited file system sizes, unlimited snapshots and clones, and inline data reduction for additional storage cost savings.”

The release continues, “StorMax™ SDS appliances are available as All Flash, All HDD, and Hybrid configurations in a 2U/2Node form factor scaling up to 92TB of storage raw capacity, as well as a 4U/2Node appliance scaling up to 560TB. The solution is compatible with major operating systems such as Microsoft, VMware, Ubuntu, Docker, Red Hat and OpenStack. The appliances support enterprise workloads in both physical and virtual infrastructure including: Databases and Transactional enterprise applications; Virtual machines/ Virtual desktops; Enterprise file servers; High performance digital media applications; Cloud Backend; NFS/ Block backup; Large-scale archive repositories.”

Read more at PR Newswire.

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