Pavilion shakes established market positions

Pavilion Data Systems, the emerging leader in high performance unified storage, continues its innovation journey around its HyperParallel Flash Array (HFA).

The company just unveiled HyperOS 3.0, a major release, that delivers very interesting key features for enterprises' data centers. This OS iteration introduces several real new capabilities that transform the role of the solution within an enterprise. We wish here to insist on the the multi chassis unification capability and of course the NFS and S3 global namespace across these several chassis. Also performance receives a boost.

HFA was designed with an embedded file system as a foundation of external access protocols. With this 3.0 release, this implementation relies now on a container approach. Each local file system is then glued together with other chassis' file system to enable a global namespace capability segregated by protocol instances such NFS and S3.

In terms of data services, HFA offers almost everything a high demanding environment requires: thin provisioning, snapshot, clone,  tiering, replication, multi-pathing, security, encryption, compression and advanced RAID. The only missing feature is the deduplication but for such environment this feature is not immediately a must. But it will make sense in the future with the enormous compute power inside the box thus reducing even more the cost and globally the $/TB.

What you see above illustrates the penalty introduced by the global namespace feature for NFS and S3 as the performance per HFA drops from 90 to 60GB/s in read mode. In other words, if you need 180GB/s, you need 3 systems but if you can split your namespace 2 are enough. I invite you to do your math and configuration exercice.

HFA appears to be one of the most comprehensive being scalable, resilient with high performance, unified and super dense. Interestingly, Pavilion offers NFS over RDMA like VAST Data.

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On the business side, the company has signed with Penguin Computing but we expect some oems deals and other resellers agreements beyond solutions validations. We're looking for European presence soon.

Definitely, Pavilion Data Systems really pushes an unified model promoting block, file and object with a super dense storage device. We'll see in the coming months how this new product iteration will land on the market and but also how competition will react.