Coho Brings Cloud Simplicity to Datacenter Storage 

Coho Data today emerged from stealth mode to unveil a completely reimagined storage model called Coho DataStream that packages the value of public cloud - including pay-as-you-grow economics, rapid scaling and high resiliency – into an on-premise solution for datacenters of all sizes. With a software-defined approach, the Coho DataStream product line combines commodity hardware with software that’s tuned for the latest PCIe flash technologies to deliver twice the price/performance of all-flash arrays and give businesses the peace of mind that they’ll always have fast, reliable access to their data. With its unique architecture, Coho Data offers a level of scale and predictable high performance that is unprecedented, enabling businesses to focus on their data instead of managing storage hardware and performance issues.

Virtualization has enabled greater efficiency and flexibility for servers in datacenters of all sizes. But as the compute side of the datacenter has become more efficient, storage has remained unchanged for decades. While cloud computing has given companies more options for easily storing and managing data in hosted environments, these cloud generation services have opted to use new approaches leveraging commodity hardware and smart software instead of buying traditional storage products. Inspired by this cloud approach and leveraging their experience building the virtualization layer that powers Amazon’s EC2, Coho Data’s founders built the DataStream to address underlying scale and performance limitations in traditional storage architectures. The DataStream brings a fundamentally new storage building block to the datacenter that delivers the modularity and economics needed to enable businesses to rapidly scale data capacity and performance on demand to any application.

Businesses Find Relief from Performance and Scale Bottlenecks

Coho Data starts with a cloud-inspired storage model that combines scale-out software on commodity hardware to deliver pay-as-you-grow economics and investment protection: customers start with a system that meets their immediate capacity and performance needs and then grow the system as their business demands it. By embracing open commodity hardware, DataStream enables customers to take advantage of continuous improvements in hardware costs. Then, by adding breakthrough innovations including a storage stack optimized for PCIe flash and the use of software-defined networking (SDN) to embed storage intelligence in the network, the patented Coho DataStream architecture guarantees linear performance scaling with zero bottlenecks that is 18x the performance of traditional storage products.

Fast, Cloud-Inspired Storage for On-Premise Datacenters

Coho Data offers a fundamentally new approach for enterprise data storage. Coho DataStream provides:

• Unparalleled Performance: Up to 180K IOPS in every 2U Coho DataStream appliance that can be scaled linearly for 2x the price/performance of all-flash arrays means businesses never have to worry about having enough performance and don’t need to pay the high prices of proprietary flash solutions. Instead, a single DataStream system can be used for all applications, regardless of performance requirements.
• Open Scalability: Use of open, commodity hardware and standards like OpenFlow for software-defined networking delivers hardware flexibility that rides the commoditization curve and offers multi-generation hardware compatibility to protect investments.
• Pay-as-you-Grow Economics: Starting at $2.50/GB, before deduplication and compression, businesses can start with a single Coho DataStream chassis of 40TB and grow incrementally as needed without the big upfront expenditure of traditional arrays. Compare this to the $5/GB+ of traditional arrays, $6/GB+ annually of Amazon’s Elastic Block storage with an example 2000 IOPS per 1TB volume guarantee, or $20/GB+ of all-flash storage.