Appistry® CloudIQ® Storage

Intelligent Storage for Data-centric Applications

Appistry CloudIQ Storage is software that creates a scalable, reliable and highly cost-effective file storage system with no single points of failure, using only commodity servers and networking.

CloudIQ Storage may be used as a stand-alone storage system or in conjunction with Appistry CloudIQ Engine to enable Computational Storage™, which unifies applications and data to deliver unprecedented price- performance for data-intensive applications. Plug-and-play compatibility with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) offers an easy upgrade for Hadoop users with mission-critical requirements.

Massive Scale File Storage

Appistry CloudIQ Storage is architected for petabyte scale, featuring a fully-distributed architecture with no single point of failure or network bottlenecks. Every machine in the CloudIQ Storage system is capable of serving files and processing administration requests. CloudIQ Storage can easily service large numbers of client requests by distributing the work across many machines.

Users can incrementally scale the capacity of a running CloudIQ Storage system by adding new servers and storage, without downtime or loss of file availability. CloudIQ Storage is self-organizing, automatically balancing disk utilization across machines, ensuring maximal efficiency and eliminating hot-spots.

CloudIQ Storage offers a robust HTTP-based REST API, providing programmatic access to stored files and facilitating service provider applications.

Reliability and Disaster Recovery

CloudIQ Storage allows users to specify policies governing the replication of data within the system, enabling high levels of fault tolerance. CloudIQ Storage oversees system health and can take appropriate action upon disk or server failure.

A single instance of a CloudIQ Storage system can span multiple data centers. CloudIQ Storage mirrors and distributes files across all cloud storage servers so that the loss of any one data center does not limit access to data.

Computational Storage

Traditional application architectures rely on the transfer of data files over expensive and bandwidth-constrained interconnects to be processed by application logic. CloudIQ Storage, by contrast, allows servers to be used for computational purposes as well as for file storage. This capability, coupled with CloudIQ Platform's ability to intelligently locate application processing on the machines containing the relevant data is called Computational Storage™. Computational Storage enables the dramatic reduction of capital and operating costs and improved performance for high-throughput applications.

Hadoop Edition and HDFS Compatibility

Appistry CloudIQ Storage Hadoop Edition provides plug-in compatibility with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), allowing Hadoop users to easily upgrade to CloudIQ Storage as a replacement for HDFS when enhanced reliability and throughput are key considerations. Because CloudIQ Storage has no single point of failure and no centralized bottleneck, it is more scalable and reliable than HDFS and more suitable for mission-critical deployment.

Service Provider Edition for MSPs

Appistry CloudIQ Storage Service Provider Edition, coming soon, will provide unique features, licensing, pricing, and support options specifically designed to meet the needs of managed service providers (MSPs). MSPs interested in Service Provider Edition can request additional information and early access here.

Summary of Benefits

  • Unmatched performance for high-volume, data-intensive applications, at commodity price-points
  • Slashed overall TCO
  • Reduced up-front investment without loss of control
  • Simplified development of web-scale applications
  • Increased application uptime
  • Ensured business continuity through geographically aware disaster recovery
  • Accelerated time-to-market