A diagram illustrates AiNET's new offering
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation firm AiNET announced on Monday that it has launched its cloud-based storage as a service offering that will support real-time applications.
According to the press release, the service was developed in response to increasing demand for real-time storage solutions. The solution is currently available in the Washington market.
AiNET’s solution uses the AiNET Peta1- storage area network. It also employs a SSD fron end and collaborative load processing to provide requisite levels of performance. According to the announcement, users can interface with the SANs at multi-gigabit/s levels using storage methods like iSCSI, NFS and GPFS.
“Performance is part of the picture, but reliability is every bit as important,” Deepak Jain, president of AiNET said in a statement. “Therefore, beyond configuring the Peta10s for RAID 6, we have them perform synchronous SAN replication, a far-reaching reliability measure we haven’t seen in a shared service environment.”
AiNET says its storage as a service uses the same government information assurance protocols used to protect sensitive data.
According to the press release, CoreSite customers at 12100 Sunrise Valley Drive in Reston, VA, can access the service via its inter-site DWDM connectivity products.
“CoreSite is pleased to see the continued growth of our cloud-centric data center ecosystem in Washington DC/NoVA,” Chris Bair, CoreSite senior vice president of sales said in a statement. “Customers like AiNET are key to keeping CoreSite data center ecosystems vital to network-sensitive organizations.”
In October, AiNET announced the start of construction of a major fiber network throughout Washington, DC and any buildings reached by the network have access to the storage service. AiNET says it will launched its service in other markets in 2012.
VP of business development, data center infrastructure at AiNET Darrell Tanno, says that because AiNET owns its own SAN there is a lot of services potential. In an email to the WHIR he says that AiNET is talking to some companies about doing local interconnections with its DC fiber network.
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