Startup Data Robotics has launched “the first business-class storage array that manages itself”.
The DroboPro software has advanced self-monitoring and self-healing functionality and is designed for use by business – not necessarily IT-trained – personnel.
Using the BeyondRAID virtualized platform, it provides business continuity features including protection against multiple concurrent drive failures and no-downtime capacity expansion with thin provisioning.
“There are a lot of clever things you can do with BeyondRAID that you can’t do with regular RAID,” CEO and co-founder Geoff Barrall told eWEEK. Barrall previously founded BlueArc; Data Robotics is his fifth startup.
“For example, if you want to add new storage to the system, it’s available to use within 10 seconds. You just plug it in using USB or other connectivity. There’s no restriping, relaying out or file system expansion or any of the things that you’d expect to deal with with RAID. The system just connects and makes it available.”
A mixture of different-size drives can be used in this system, Barrall said — also unlike RAID.
“You can continually insert larger and larger drives into the array and use the capacity on them. In RAID, you are limited by the smallest drive you have. With BeyondRAID you can add new capacity whenever you need it, with no understanding [of storage IT engineering] whatsoever,” Barrall said.
Key features of DroboPro include:
Barrall said that Data Robotics has already sold about 60,000 systems in less than four years – mostly to SMBs. The company also has 120 Fortune 1000 companies on its customer list, Barrall said.
DroboPro fits into a rack mount environment or can sit on a desktop. Pricing starts at US $1299 (£886) for the DroboPro bundle in a small appliance form factor.
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