If you’re old enough to remember the pre-SAN days, you will remember directly attached SCSI devices with dedicated servers running the business (Directly Attached Storage or “DAS”). Each critical IT function such as ERP or HRMS had a “siloed” system with dedicated servers directly connected to dedicated storage. It was simple, secure and it worked. Each department could get the job done with this storage and compute architecture. What was the downside?Īs manual processes such as paper invoices and timecards went away, data became the most critical asset to the business. The ability to store data for extended periods naturally led to the desire to share the data across departments and geographies. Management wanted to analyze disparate systems and look for trends and opportunities to improve efficiencies. As software such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle Apps became more powerful they needed more compute connectivity. A new way to store, share and scale this critical asset was needed. The age of Storage Area Networking was upon us. Apeiron has leveraged the advancements with FPGA's, Ethernet switching hardware and storage advancements built-in to the application. I often get the question "how did Apeiron come up with this idea?" Like most "simple" solutions it stands on the shoulders of previous advancements. The ADS1000 was designed from the ground up to leverage the inherent storage management capabilities in applications such as Splunk, and frameworks such as Hadoop. It's true, we designed a storage system with no controller and no need for external storage switches.
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