SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Excelero, a disruptor in software-defined block storage, was assigned US patent # 10,237,347 today – its third US patent, with a 12 additional patents pending – governing a technique for multiple remote storage devices to communicate with a SmartNIC. This intellectual property (IP) is already being implemented in Excelero’s latest NVMesh2 solution and provides customers with more efficient ways to deploy NVMe Flash across an enterprise.
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With NVMe Flash’s explosive growth into a $9 billion market by 2020 from just $2 billion in 2017, where an estimated 80% of storage devices will incorporate NVMe storage by 2020 (G2M Research), the rush is on to extract maximum performance and ROI from NVMe SSDs across a network. Doing so will enable enterprises and service providers of all sizes to optimize their infrastructures in the same way as the Tech Giants do, with scale-out storage infrastructures leveraging standard servers and software-defined storage solutions.
Excelero’s new patent, “System And Method For Providing A Client Device Seamless Access To A Plurality Of Remote Storage Devices Presented As A Virtual Device,” governs an I/O operation as it accesses multiple remotely located storage devices, which is pivotal to obtaining the superior performance and low latency offered by today’s SmartNICs while providing essential storage services. Applications and the operating system on the compute nodes, predominantly virtual machines or containers, interact with the SmartNIC as if it was local storage. In practice, the storage is not local, rather stored on some remote device. To provide a storage layer that is more robust, performant and scalable, instead of using a single remote storage device, multiple devices can be combined.
Excelero’s just-approved patent has broad-ranging application for virtualized storage that implements other data services from the client side on a SmartNIC, such as global deduplication or global compression or block virtualization across multiple targets. It enables more organizations to achieve the extreme efficiency of today’s Super 8 web-scalers, as they work to maximize capacity utilization, performance and cost-efficiency with today’s most in-demand applications including AI, machine learning, analytics and databases.
“The market has validated our foresight on applying SmartNICs to heighten virtual storage efficiency,” said Lior Gal, CEO and co-founder of Excelero. “Today’s patent and our remaining 12 patents pending show Excelero’s commitment to constantly pushing the envelope of scale-out NVMe Flash architectures, so that organizations of all sizes can achieve a competitive advantage.”
About Excelero
Excelero delivers low-latency distributed block storage for web-scale applications. Founded in 2014 by a team of storage veterans and inspired by the Tech Giants’ shared-nothing architectures for web-scale applications, the company has designed a software-defined block storage solution that meets the low-latency performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications.
Excelero’s NVMesh enables shared NVMe across any network and supports any local or distributed file system. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO. NVMesh is deployed by major web-scale customers, for data analytics and machine learning applications and in Media & Entertainment post-production and HPC environments.
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