{"id":2829,"date":"2015-05-06T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2015-05-05T20:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:08:03","slug":"atlantis-computing-product-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/atlantis-computing-product-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Computing &#8211; Product Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t previously talked a lot about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantiscomputing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantis Computing<\/a> but I have a friend who joined the company a while ago and he&#8217;s\u00a0been quite enthusiastic about what they&#8217;re doing in the SDS \/ hyperwhat space, so I figured it was worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may have heard\u00a0that Atlantis Computing\u00a0recently\u00a0announced the availability of Atlantis HyperScale appliances. In a nutshell, this is a software-defined storage solution on a choice of server hardware from HP, Cisco, Lenovo or SuperMicro\u00a0using a\u00a0hypervisor from VMware or Citrix. It sure does look pretty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atlantis-HyperScale-on-black.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atlantis-HyperScale-on-black.png\" alt=\"Atlantis-HyperScale-on-black\" width=\"800\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atlantis-HyperScale-on-black.png 1062w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atlantis-HyperScale-on-black-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atlantis-HyperScale-on-black-1024x395.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atlantis says it&#8217;s an all-flash, hyper-converged, turnkey hardware appliance.\u00a0If that seems like a mouthful, it is. It&#8217;s also built on the\u00a0Atlantis USX platform with end-to-end support provided\u00a0by Atlantis. If you&#8217;re not familiar with USX, I encourage\u00a0you to check out some details on it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantiscomputing.com\/products\/atlantis-usx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0In short, it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is a\u00a0100% Software-Defined Storage;<\/li>\n<li>Is an enterprise-class storage platform;<\/li>\n<li>Pools SAN, NAS, DAS, Flash; and<\/li>\n<li>Runs on any server, any storage (within some very specific limits).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HyperScale and Hardware-defined Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pretty snazzy shot of the features in HyperScale. There&#8217;s a nice overview of the available data services and REST capability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale2.png\" alt=\"HyperScale2\" width=\"800\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale2.png 1865w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale2-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale2-1024x477.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cool thing is you can run this on a mix of hardware vendors as well, including Cisco, HP, Lenovo and SuperMicro.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed configurations and specifications of 12TB and 24TB;<\/li>\n<li>Turnkey 4-node appliances; and<\/li>\n<li>Supported by Atlantis (24x7x365 with 4 hour response).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale3.png\" alt=\"HyperScale3\" width=\"800\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale3.png 1816w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale3-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale3-1024x267.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CX-12 and CX-24 have the following specs (depending on the vendor you choose):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale4.png\" alt=\"HyperScale4\" width=\"800\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale4.png 1314w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale4-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/HyperScale4-1024x387.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the\u00a0models of servers cited in the briefing included (everything is 4 nodes):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cisco USC C220 M4;<\/li>\n<li>Lenovo x3550 M5;<\/li>\n<li>SuperMicro TwinPro; and<\/li>\n<li>HP DL360 Gen9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not an exhaustive list, but gives you an idea of the type of appliance hardware in play.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atlantis are very excited about some of the potential TCO benefits to be had in comparison\u00a0with Nutanix, Simplivity and VMware&#8217;s EVO:RAIL. I&#8217;m not going to go into numbers here, but I think it would be worth your while, if you&#8217;re in the market for a Hyper solution, to have a conversation with\u00a0these guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t previously talked a lot about Atlantis Computing but I have a friend who joined the company a while ago and he&#8217;s\u00a0been quite enthusiastic about what they&#8217;re doing in the SDS \/ hyperwhat space, so I figured it was worth checking out. &nbsp; Overview You may have heard\u00a0that Atlantis Computing\u00a0recently\u00a0announced the availability of Atlantis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,750],"tags":[520,755,756,705,746],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantiscomputing","category-hyperconverged","tag-announcement","tag-atlantis","tag-hardware-defined","tag-hyperwhat","tag-sds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}