8kpc Inc - Gartner Cool Vendor 2017: Addressing Both Computational and Storage Needs
Digital economy at its peak today has led to enterprises across sectors, big or small, to embark on transformative solutions. The key concern of industry honchos is to address the ever growing demands of data access and growth. This has led to rapid proliferation of applications, virtual machines and underlying storage. There is a need to address the complex challenge of scaling of the IT infrastructure stack to match this exponential growth. Under such conditions the traditional architectures have proven to be expensive to procure, and even more expensive and complex to deploy, optimize, and run. Keeping these needs in view, 8kpc Inc., headquartered in California with its R&D centre in India, a revolutionary solution provider, has brought into the market a breakthrough hyper-convergence based solution that addresses both computational and storage needs.“We are delivering a software defined compute and software defined storage in one simple compact appliance. Our technology delivers linear scalability and allows customers to start small and scale as needed,” delineates Ram Appalaraju, President and CEO at 8kpc. Providing an insight into the architecture behind the solution, Ram Appalaraju further explains, “8kpc has developed an integrated storage solution that delivers very high sustained predictable performance through high performance flash storage and also delivers data protection, replication, and disaster recovery through scalable bulk storage of hundreds of terabytes. The complete solution is delivered to customers as a single scaleout appliance without any need for onsite integration and optimization. Our hyper-converged solution delivers true integration of VMs, Hypervisor, Storage and the Fabric, delivering scalable compute, and storage with a single-pane of management at any scale.”
With 8kpc, customers are greatly benefitted with the modular building blocks that deliver exceptionally fast compute and high performance.
Ram Appalaraju asserts that customers are able to realize 30 percent to 50 percent savings in CapEx and dramatic savings on OpEx by at least 70 percent.
Taking into account the ongoing demand for faster backups and recoveries, such capabilities are part of the 8kpc hyper-converged solution enabling customers to configure multiple copies of data. The primary hot data is maintained on high performance flash layer, and bulk storage, external NAS or cloud based storage can maintain the backup data copies.
Partnering with Citrix has further added to 8kpc’s ability to deliver one of the most simple and affordable VDI solution. Consistent high performance with an enhanced user experience, along with the delivery of high value at a low footprint, linear scalability, simplified unified management of VDI solution across locations and low cost per user by at least 50 percent clearly stand as factors that distinguish 8kpc’s VDI solution in the market.
Although hyper-convergence is still at its nascent stage, 8kpc has successfully enabled customers to realize business value and cost benefits. In addition, Ram Appalaraju clarifies that 8kpc is the only vendor to offer complete HA solution with just two nodes in a single 2U appliance that is capable of supporting up to 350 VDI users. Further, 8kpc’s HCI architecture is the only flash based solution that delivers linear scalability. Signing off, he affirms that 8kpc will continue innovating to enable IT customers address various challenges relating to business needs and hopes to reinvent the areas of real time analytics as well as application and infrastructure consolidation and many more use cases in the near future.
Taking into account the ongoing demand for faster backups and recoveries, such capabilities are part of the 8kpc hyper-converged solution enabling customers to configure multiple copies of data. The primary hot data is maintained on high performance flash layer, and bulk storage, external NAS or cloud based storage can maintain the backup data copies.
Partnering with Citrix has further added to 8kpc’s ability to deliver one of the most simple and affordable VDI solution. Consistent high performance with an enhanced user experience, along with the delivery of high value at a low footprint, linear scalability, simplified unified management of VDI solution across locations and low cost per user by at least 50 percent clearly stand as factors that distinguish 8kpc’s VDI solution in the market.
8kpc Inc., headquartered in California with its R&D centre in India, a revolutionary solution provider, has brought into the market a breakthrough hyper-convergence based solution that addresses both computational and storage needs
Although hyper-convergence is still at its nascent stage, 8kpc has successfully enabled customers to realize business value and cost benefits. In addition, Ram Appalaraju clarifies that 8kpc is the only vendor to offer complete HA solution with just two nodes in a single 2U appliance that is capable of supporting up to 350 VDI users. Further, 8kpc’s HCI architecture is the only flash based solution that delivers linear scalability. Signing off, he affirms that 8kpc will continue innovating to enable IT customers address various challenges relating to business needs and hopes to reinvent the areas of real time analytics as well as application and infrastructure consolidation and many more use cases in the near future.
