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November 15, 2013

Maxta Debuts New Virtualization-Centric Storage Platform

A new virtualization-centric storage platform from Maxta removes the need for companies to employ external storage arrays and can help users realize significant IT cost savings. The Maxta Storage Platform (MxSP) is equipped with all the necessary features to offer enterprise-class data services, capacity optimization and scale-out of storage and performance.

Yoram Novick, founder and chief executive officer at Maxta, said, “The complexities and high costs of traditional enterprise storage are magnified in the virtual data center. After being told repeatedly that expensive storage arrays are the only way to support enterprise applications in virtualized environments, IT organizations finally have an alternative to storage arrays that significantly reduces complexity and cost. Maxta has broken the code for integrating storage and compute into a converged virtual data center.”

Defined as a hypervisor-agnostic implementation of enterprise storage, the new MxSP is fitted with a single pane of glass for VM and data management and VM centric data services that remove the need for storage management and enable monitoring of all data services at VM level granularity. Capable of turning standard servers into a converged compute and storage solution, MxSP is said to be optimized for flash performance and disk drive capacity. It can seamlessly co-exist with other storage offerings thereby providing investment protection.

Maxta asserted that the new platform delivers VM-centric enterprise-class data services to support advanced capabilities such as live migration of virtual machines, dynamic load balancing, high availability, data protection and disaster recovery. Its VM-level replication feature provides fast and affordable high availability and disaster recovery.

VSS Monitoring (News - Alert), a client of Maxta, acknowledged that its test and developments was able to self-deploy and manage virtual machines using Maxta’s platform which resulted in faster time to market and increased storage performance. The platform is built with a versatile architecture that can scale capacity and performance independently, on-demand, without having to over-provision resources.




Edited by Alisen Downey
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