Atlantis ILIO FlexCloud

As organizations virtualize servers, applications and desktops and move them into the cloud, traditional storage is not always able to deliver the required performance and economics at scale. To scale effectively, storage-intensive applications require either developers to re-architect applications to do more in memory or IT to re-engineer their infrastructure to move storage closer to compute.

The Atlantis ILIO FlexCloud™ Solution

Atlantis ILIO FlexCloud enables IT to virtualize storage-intensive applications at cloud-scale without re-architecting applications or re-engineering infrastructure. IT can transparently insert a layer of software into the existing IT infrastructure that enables any storage-intensive application to run in the cloud with little or no storage. Unlike traditional storage, Atlantis ILIO In-Memory Storage™ technology decouples performance from the traditional limitations of disk-based storage by running all sessions directly on server RAM – as primary storage – to provide unparalleled performance

Atlantis ILIO FlexCloud brings the many benefits of a virtualized cloud computing environment to storage-intensive applications: elasticity and the flexibility to use the existing storage fabric to deliver virtualized applications on demand as needed to support more virtual servers or handle larger data sets.

Benefits

• Performance – Accelerate storage-intensive Cloud applications
• Flexibility – Add virtual servers on-demand without adding storage
• Scale – Scale-out using memory as storage for cloud applications  

Features

• Application Characterization – Identifies and maps storage IO traffic characteristics of the application and responds intelligently based on patterns.
• Inline IO Deduplication – Eliminates duplicate Write and Read IO traffic to reduce the amount of storage traffic.
• IO Processing – Processes IO requests from the hypervisor so that processing occurs in memory instead of being serviced by storage resulting in improved overall performance.
• IO Blender Fix – Transforms smaller randomized IO traffic into easier to consume larger sequential blocks to further boost network and storage efficiency.
• Fast Clone – Creates new virtual machine clones on demand using Atlantis ILIO without copying data from storage or introducing performance overhead.