UPDATED 17:44 EDT / APRIL 04 2018

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Datrium steps up furious pace of its hyperconverged software releases

Datrium Inc., which makes a scalable hyperconverged platform with built-in backup and disaster recovery features, today released version 4.0 of its DVX operating software, its third major release in less than a year.

The new version supports Oracle Corp.’s Real Application Clusters, provides for greater virtual machine fault tolerance and improves data administration and security. The company is also offering a free one-year trial subscription of its cloud backup service.

Datrium markets its software as an alternative to tightly integrated HCI platforms, which can be difficult to scale. It’s effectively selling an on-premises version of cloud infrastructure with a shared storage array. HCI systems typically attach local storage to each server node, but Datrium’s framework uses flash as primary storage with a secondary set of external hard drives for data persistence.

The company, which has raised $110 million in venture financing, sells both an integrated hardware appliance and software-only licenses for customers that want to use their own servers. It introduced a version of DVX for the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud in January.

“HCI customers typically don’t scale beyond six to eight nodes because one failure can take down the entire cluster,” said Craig Nunes, vice president of marketing. The Datrium approach “has the [scale-out] properties of HCI, but we’ve removed durable capacity from the HCI node. You independently provision performance, capacity and protection.”

In addition to eliminating the need for dedicated infrastructure for off-site cloud backup, DVX features built-in de-duplication that works across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure to reduce storage space and costs. “The cloud model is driven by capacity, so the smaller the footprint, the less you pay,” Nunes said. “With us, you only push one backup ever.”

With the new release, Datrium adds support for Oracle RAC on a four-node cluster running VMware Inc.’s vSphere. The software-defined, stateless host uses all-flash reads and can support the loss of three out of four nodes without impacting data availability.

A new peer cache mode provides VM fault-tolerance so that a failure of all host flash drives or the host’s RAID controller doesn’t take VMs offline. They can use solid-state drives on a neighboring host until the failure is addressed.

Encryption that complies with Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 gives organizations the ability to set two decryption passphrases, minimizing the risk of loss if one passphrase is forgotten or misplaced. Administrators can also now continuously log any actions taken across the system and view events within the DVX console for auditing or compliance purposes.

The software is priced at $12,000 per server/compute node. Existing DVX customers under a support agreement pay nothing for the upgrade.

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