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Pivot3 Introduces Serverless Computing PlatformJun 30, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Pivot3, a company involved in storage-centric computing, announced the Pivot3 Serverless Computing platform. According to company officials, the Pivot3 Serverless Computing Array is a storage area network (SAN) system that hosts server and storage applications on shared x86 hardware called Cloudbanks. Pivot3 noted that the Serverless Computing Array delivers an additional 50 percent in terms of bandwidth, controllers and server CPUs. Each array uses 48 server cores, 24 gigabits per second of iSCSI bandwidth, and 12 RAID controllers. Performance and capacity are automatically load-balanced across the Serverless Computing Array by the Pivot3 RAIGE (RAID Across Gigabit Ethernet) Operating System Software. "We have been impressed with the rapid pace of innovation from Pivot3," said Jason Pritchard, integration manager, Choctaw Nation. "We were an early-adopter of Serverless Computing for our industry-leading IP implementation, and these latest Pivot3 improvements in reliability and performance will further reduce support and maintenance costs over time." "The words 'reliability' and 'excitement' don't often appear in the same sentence," said Lee Caswell, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Pivot3. "But customers in many vertical markets are looking carefully at how to protect data efficiently and eliminate expensive tiered storage. For high-availability surveillance markets such as combat reconnaissance, border protection, airport security and correctional facility management, RAID 6e ensures that critical data can be reliably protected on disk for the most severe failure conditions." "The current environment is encouraging many organizations to consider new approaches in order to balance storage reliability and performance requirements with the realities of constrained budgets," said Henry Baltazar, storage analyst for The 451 Group. "The emergence of Serverless Computing - from vendors such as Pivot3 - looks like an interesting new development in this regard as organizations across a variety of industries - including surveillance and beyond - are trying to effectively deal with these conflicting challenges." ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |