Cohesity Pricing

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Cohesity, the pioneer of converged secondary storage, today announced the public launch of the Cohesity Data Platform, the first product designed to consolidate all secondary storage use cases on a unified environment that helps organizations control growing data demands. The Cohesity Data Platform combines a web-scale storage architecture with standards-based hardware components that enable companies to transition from today’s expensive silos for different data use cases to a simple, pay-as-you grow solution for data management. By consolidating a wide range of functions onto a single platform, Cohesity can reduce storage costs by more than half and make enterprise data management incredibly simple.

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The Elements of a Unified Secondary Storage Platform

The Cohesity Data Platform simplifies secondary storage by combining software and hardware components to provide a web-scale storage foundation that can efficiently handle a wide range of workloads. These components include:

Cohesity’s patented operating environment, OASIS (Open Architecture for Scalable, Intelligent Storage), which combines a scale-out storage architecture with built-in enterprise storage services and quality of service management to consolidate multiple use cases, such as data protection, DevOps, file services, and analytics, on a single platform.
Two new hardware platforms in the C2000 Series, with each 2U block containing four clustered nodes. Cohesity clusters can mix hardware generations and types in a future-proof model to grow with an organization from four to four hundred nodes.
- The C2300 offers 48 TB raw HDD capacity and 3.2 TB raw PCI-e SSD capacity
- The C2500 offers 96 TB raw HDD capacity and 6.4 TB raw PCI-e SSD capacity

The core foundation of the solution is Cohesity OASIS, designed to handle the differing resiliency and performance requirements of multiple data use cases. OASIS combines web-scale storage with built-in enterprise data management features traditionally addressed by separate point solutions:

Copy Data Management: Global, policy-based deduplication and patented snapshot/ cloning technology enables companies to maximize storage usage and reclaim space from redundant copies of data. Cohesity was recently recognized in Gartner’s 2015 Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies as a player in this emerging space.
Data Protection: OASIS offers seamless data protection for applications through integrated backup and recovery features, including unlimited snapshotting and thin cloning, with built-in global indexing for full searchability.
DevOps: With general-purpose storage capabilities from OASIS, including native support for NFS and SMB protocols, enterprises can quickly deploy DevOps clones from backup data, efficiently repurposing passive data in legacy environments for faster development workflows.
In-Place Analytics: Cohesity offers built-in and programmable data analytics to help enterprises make better, more informed data management and business decisions. Cohesity’s native analytics capabilities provide real-time metrics and forecasting, while its programmable Analytics Workbench empowers businesses to run custom queries against their datasets. All analytics are run in-place on the Cohesity cluster to maximize time-to-insight and eliminate the need for separate data analytics infrastructure. Support for integrated third-party analytics applications will be available in 2016.

The Cohesity Data Platform was designed to work in conjunction with pre-existing enterprise data storage solutions, allowing companies to start with a configuration that fits their environment without the high up-front costs associated with “rip-and-replace” solutions.

The Cohesity Data Platform is available now at a starting price of $110,000 (USD).

StorTrends 3600i and 3610i All Flash MSRP Price

AMI StorTrends 3600i and 3610i All-Flash Arrays

StorTrends (AMI) announced general availability of its new 3600i and 3610i all-flash SAN arrays recently. StorTrends is coming in aggressively with a low 50 cents-per-GB price for its inaugural all-flash offering.

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The 3600i comes with two Intel quad-core processors, 64 GB of memory, and a maximum storage capacity of 64 TB. The 3610i employs four Intel quad-core processors, 192 GB of memory, and a maximum storage capacity of 256 TB. The SANs are available in over 300 configurations and provide 300,000-plus IOPS along with sub-1 ms latency.

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A web-based GUI provides single pane of glass management and displays free space, deduplication ratios, system health and granular performance monitoring. StorTrends also offers the iDATA Analysis Tool to examine capacity utilization, IOPS usage, reads vs. writes for volumes, network bandwidth, performance and server statistics to classify the amount of “hot data” and “cold data” required in the environment. This assists customers in selecting the correct solution for their needs.

The products also offer advanced snapshots and encryption, and are VMware-, Citrix-, and Microsoft-Certified. The StorTrends 3600i all-flash array is available now with an MSRP of $24,999.

Panasas ActiveStor Pricing

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…with ActiveStor 14, the company delivers both IOPS and throughput by marrying big SATA disks with the latest SSD technology. The idea is to store all the file metadata on the SSDs as well as all the small file data. The idea is to put the vast majority of the “hot” data into flash, which should greatly increase I/O performance.

There are three ActiveStor 14 models available, each with its own mix of HDD and SSD capacity on the storage blade to serve different application profiles.

1. For large file throughput-oriented applications, each blade houses two 4TB SATA disks, one 120GB SSD and 8GB of cache. This is aimed at energy exploration, government, manufacturing, and academia. List price for 81.2TB of storage is $125K.

2. For more mixed workloads, they’ve come up with a blade identical to the one above, but with a 300 GB SSD. This configuration is targeted at analytics for biosciences, especially genomics. List price for 83TB is $145K.

3. For truly file heavy, random IOPS applications, they have a blade with two 2TB SATA disks, one 480GB SSD, and 16GB of cache. Panasas calls this one the ActiveStor 14T (for turbo) and it’s aimed at financial analytics, like Monte Carlo simulations for arbitrage modeling. Because of the greater ratio of SSD storage to HDD, this is the most expensive model, with a list price of $160K for 44.8TB.

Coho Data 2000f price comparison per VM

Coho Data 2000f per VM Pricing: IOmark-VM determined that a single chassis Coho Data 2000f system was able to support 448 virtual application workloads at a cost of $357.14 per VM and a two chassis 2000f was able to support 960 virtual applications at a cost of $302.08 per VM.

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The IOmark-VM tests real world workloads, measuring a standard set of applications running in a virtual environment. The results are audited to ensure uniform testing and reporting of results, enabling IT users the ability to compare products using metrics that matter, price, capacity and application performance. The application mix of IOmark-VM includes databases, webservers and Exchange mail servers, plus additional Hypervisor operations. Per the benchmark specifications, both the 1 and 2-node Coho DataStream 2000f configurations achieved these results with over 70% of response times below 20ms for all applications.

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Excerpt from full article at IOMark. Discusses Coho Data pricing for the 2000f on a per vm basis.

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EqualLogic All-SSD PS6210S model pricing (price range: $$-$$$)

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EqualLogic launched its first all-SSD-capable model in 2009. But the December PS6210S release takes advantage of controller and firmware technology redesigned specifically with flash in mind. The end result is a performance claim by Dell of 1.2 million IOPS in a configuration with a virtual pool of eight all-flash arrays.

The PS6210S all-flash EqualLogic array supports only the high-performance but more expensive SLC flash, as the industry increasingly moves to cheaper MLC technology. Dell started with a price of $8 per GB for the PS6210S, based on a configuration with two dozen 800-GB SSDs, placing it roughly in the middle of the pack of the lines of all-flash arrays.

The most aggressive all-flash array vendors claim their prices are less than $5 per GB, but those products often use data reduction methods to hit those low numbers. Neither the all-flash EqualLogic arrays nor Compellent arrays support inline de-duplication and compression, two of the most important storage-saving features. They support only post-process de-dupe for file data within a unified storage system via the Dell Fluid File System, and Compellent recently added support for post-process compression, according to a Dell spokesperson.

Dell’s EqualLogic division has credited the PS6210S array’s redesigned controller and software for allowing it to stake a claim of flash performance at the price of disk. The company declined to supply an estimated price per IOPS.

Compellent All-Flash Array Pricing

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Dell Compellent is targeted to medium-sized to large organizations, while Dell’s line of iSCSI-only EqualLogic arrays typically targets small- to medium-sized businesses.

Compellent’s list price is $130,000 with six SLC SSDs and six MLC SSDs, and Dell claims the Compellent all-flash arrays are priced from $5 per gigabyte to $10 per GB with 48 SLC SSDs and 240 MLC SSDs.

Like Compellent, EqualLogic launched its first all-SSD-capable model in 2009. But the December PS6210S release takes advantage of controller and firmware technology redesigned specifically with flash in mind. The end result is a performance claim by Dell of 1.2 million IOPS in a configuration with a virtual pool of eight all-flash arrays.

The PS6210S all-flash EqualLogic array supports only the high-performance but more expensive SLC flash, as the industry increasingly moves to cheaper MLC technology. Dell supplied a starting price of $8 per GB for the PS6210S, based on a configuration with two dozen 800-GB SSDs, placing it roughly in the middle of the pack of the lines of all-flash arrays.

The most aggressive all-flash array vendors claim their prices are less than $5 per GB, but those products often employ data reduction technology to hit those numbers. Neither the all-flash EqualLogic arrays nor Compellent arrays support inline deduplication and compression, two of the most important storage-saving features. They support only post-process deduplication for file data within a unified storage system via the Dell Fluid File System, and Compellent this month added support for post-process compression, according to a Dell spokesperson.

Deduplication Reviews – Exagrid vs. EMC vs. Quantum vs.HP

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Technology analyst Gartner estimates place the deduplication appliance market at $1.74 billion in revenue last year. That’s a growth rate of 18% over the previous year.

“While EMC continues to claim the lion’s share of the market, late-comer HP is making good progress, and Fujitsu reported some large-scale adoption in Europe and Japan,” said Rinnen. “Quantum remains a solid contender, whereas Dell is ramping up its DR series appliances for SMBs. ExaGrid and Sepaton are positioned as Visionary vendors due to their innovative architectures.”

ExaGrid

Exagrid believes that deduplicating backups during the backup process (inline) it too compute-intensive, resulting in a longer backup window. To overcome this, ExaGrid uses a landing zone where backups can land straight to disk without inline processing, resulting in fast backups and a short backup window. Deduplication and offsite replication occur in parallel with backups so they never impede the backup process, as they are second order priority.

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ExaGrid offers a total of nine appliance models, which can be mixed and matched into a single grid. This can scale from a 1 TB full backup up to a 294 TB full backup in one grid. It also allows for replication to a second site for disaster recovery as well as enabling multiple data centers to cross protect between each other. The list price for the ExaGrid EX7000 appliance is $29,000, whereas the EX13000E is $42,000, and the EX21000E is $59,000.

Gartner saw ExaGrid as being successful in the midmarket and in small enterprises, and thought its grid architecture offered pay-as-you-grow benefits, as well as having deeper integration with Veeam than many competitors. But the analyst firm saw limitations in its reach beyond North America, as well as limited cloud support.

Quantum

The Quantum DXi Series utilized the StorNext 5 file system to accelerate storage workflows and simplify data protection. The company recently streamlined its disk backup/deduplication portfolio based on three platforms – the DXi6900 for midrange to enterprise environments, the DXi4700 for SMB to midrange implementations, and the DXi V-Series for virtual environments. The DXi6900 with 17 TB usable capacity has an $88,000 list price, the DXi4701 with 5 TB is $16,000 and a free DXi V1000 virtual deduplication appliance is available to store up to 15 TB of deduplicated data.

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As such, Quantum provides self-encrypting 4 TB drives in DXi Series models using AES 256-bit government grade encryption that is performed by the drives without performance impact. A recent development is capacity-on-demand licensing. For example, this enables users to scale a DXi6900 from 17 TB to 510 TB without any licensing complexity. From one Quantum appliance, users can replicate to Quantum’s Q-Cloud Protect data center as a means of offsite protection. If the data is deduplicated, Burns characterizes the cost at pennies per GB per month.

Gartner called attention to Quantum’s strong tape heritage, which gives it strong tape integration capabilities compared with its competitors. The analyst firm also commented favorably on its licensing model, which gave users better flexibility and affordability. On the downside, the DXi’s Accent deduplication distribution software only supports Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec, and Quantum offers online support for application-native backup tools such as Oracle RMAN.

HP

HP supplies several deduplication appliances. The 4 TB StoreOnce Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) which includes StoreOnce Catalyst (pricing starts at $1,500). The StoreOnce Backup 2700 (dedicated hardware appliance) offers 5.5 TB of usable storage prior to deduplication (approx. 110 TB of backup data assuming a 20:1 deduplication ratio) and is priced starting from $12,500.

Other products are available offering different capacity and performance points through to HP’s flagship StoreOnce 6500. It offers the highest availability with failover and autonomic restart for those who want to ensure their backups don’t fail. This product scales to 1728 TB of usable space prior to deduplication and restore speeds up to 75 TB/hr. Prices start at $375,000.

“Consider a holistic approach to data protection,” said Andrew Dickerson, senior marketing manager, backup, recovery and archiving solutions, HP Storage. “It may be that your organization can move some of its primary data to a different type of storage enabling the business to use that data for intelligence purposes, to help move the business forward while at the same time backing up less data each day, to a deduplicating appliance.”

Gartner felt that StoreOnce had good integration capabilities with backup applications such as HP Data Protector and Symantec OpenStorage Technology (OST)-based applications, but saw some weakness in entry-level and midrange models.

EMC

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Gartner noted that EMC has achieved commercial success with Data Domain deduplication backup appliances, which offer a variety of configurations, deduplication capabilities and ingest speeds. The analyst firm called it the “broadest ecosystem of backup and enterprise application support, including deeper integration with EMC’s Avamar and NetWorker via Data Domain Boost.”

But Gartner also noted some customer gripes around pricing, and the lack of a scale-out architecture for easy upgrades and migration.

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