Silicon Mechanics Supplies Storage Appliance to ESRG 

Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it has supplied a unified storage appliance to ESRG. ESRG turned to Silicon Mechanics to help manage its growing data sets cost-effectively as increased monitoring capabilities quickly outpaced the company’s storage capacity.

Silicon Mechanics’ zStax StorCore ZFS unified storage appliances feature a highly scalable, modular design that can easily support ESRG’s growing software as a service (SaaS) business requirements, guarantee data recovery, and facilitate the company’s development needs.

The zStax software-defined storage platform developed by Silicon Mechanics is based on open-source ZFS and powered by NexentaStor. The software-defined storage model has the flexibility and portability to support ESRG’s development life cycle, and the reliability and replication to support business continuity.

Steve Scherer, storage solutions expert for Silicon Mechanics, explains that ESRG requires hybrid storage pools and the ability to queue up write operations to avoid bottlenecks. “High volumes of small-block write I/O can bring many storage systems to their knees, so we used high-endurance Seagate SSDs to handle that write workload,” says Scherer. He adds, “Seagate SSDs can also be leveraged for read cache, holding the most frequently accessed portions of the database on solid-state media for extremely fast read access times.”