If you are looking for High Performance Computing Solutions then look no further. Buurst provides a frictionless customer experience and is the only cloud software storage company to offer a No Storage Downtime Guarantee™. Fortune 500 to SMB companies across multiple industry verticals trust our cloud NAS product, SoftNAS with their mission-critical data.
Buurst is a trusted provider of high-performance cloud applications, notably a Cloud NAS, object storage filer, and cloud data management software called SoftNAS, which allows companies to migrate their data and applications into the cloud without re-engineering.
High-Performance Cloud Computing Solutions
Our cloud-native Virtual NAS Appliance, SoftNAS leads the industry in performance while saving high costs by not double billing cloud storage. With built-in security, major protocol support, and an easy-to-operate lift & shift feature, SoftNAS is cost-effective and proven at the Petabyte scale on AWS, Azure, and VMware.
High Performance Cloud Computing Solutions (HPC solutions)
SoftNAS is a Linux-based virtual appliance deployed on public and private cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and VMware vSphere. SoftNAS can also run on RHEL 8.2 if customers prefer it over CentOS.
SoftNAS provides unified storage designed and optimized for high-performance, higher than normal I/O per second (IOPS), and data reliability and recoverability. It also increases storage efficiency through thin-provisioning, compression, and deduplication.
Buurst SoftNAS for HPC solutions operates very cost-effectively on as few as a single node for workloads that do not require high availability or as few as two nodes with HA. Unlike other storage solutions that require a minimum of six (6) i3en nodes, the SoftNAS solution provides cost-effectiveness, HPC performance, high availability, and persistence with DR options.
SoftNAS and AWS are well-positioned today with commercially off-the-shelf products that, when combined, clear the way to move numerous HPC, Windows Server, and SQL Server workloads from on-premises data centers into the AWS cloud. And since SoftNAS AWS NAS is available on-demand via the AWS Marketplace, customers with these types of demanding needs are just minutes away from achieving HPC in the cloud. SoftNAS is available to assist partners and customers in quickly configuring and performance-tuning these HPC solutions.
High Performance Computing in the Cloud PoC — our learnings
- While the throughput performance criteria were achieved, the LS64s_v2 bundled nVME disks are ephemeral, not persistent. In addition, the pool cannot be expanded with additional nVME disks, just SSD. These factors eliminate this instance type from consideration.
- Enabling Accelerated Networking on any/all VMs within an Azure solution is critical to achieving the fastest performance possible.
- It appears that Azure Ultra SSDs could be the fastest storage product in any Cloud. These are currently available only in beta in a single Azure region/AZ and cannot be tested with Marketplace VMs as of the time of publishing. On Windows 2016 VMs, we achieved 1.4GBps write throughput on a DS_v3 VM as part of the Ultra SSD preview program.
- When testing the performance of SoftNAS with client machines, it is important that the test machines have network throughput capacity equal or greater to the SoftNAS VM and that accelerated networking is enabled.
- On pools comprised of nVME disks, adding a ZIL or read cache of mirrored premium SSD drives actually slows performance.
Achieving Cloud HPC Solutions and Success
SoftNAS is committed to leading the market as a provider of the fastest Cloud storage platform available. To meet this goal, our team has a game plan.
Testing/benchmarking the fastest EC2s and Azure VMs (ex. i3.16xlarge, i3.metal etc.) with the fastest disks.
- Fast adoption of new Cloud storage technologies (ex. Azure Ultra SSD)
- For every POC, production deployment, or internal test of SoftNAS, measure the throughput and IOPS, and document the instance & pool configurations. This info needs to be accessible to our team so we can match configurations to the required performance.
SoftNAS Cloud NAS provides customers a unified, integrated way to aggregate, transform, accelerate, protect and store data and to easily create hybrid cloud solutions that bridge islands of data across SaaS, legacy systems, remote offices, factories, IoT, analytics, AI, and machine learning, web services, SQL, NoSQL and the cloud — any kind of data. SoftNAS NAS Filer works with the most popular public, private, hybrid, and premises-based virtual cloud operating systems, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and VMware vSphere.
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