Software Defined Storage Appliance MPSTOR Orkestra(TM)-SDS Now Available for Flexible, Scalable OpenStack Storage Provisioning

CORK, Ireland, Oct. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As a much sought-after addition to its popular Orkestra™ datacenter solution suite, MPSTOR today released Orkestra™-SDS, a Software Defined Storage (SDS) appliance for the open-source data operating system OpenStack. Ideally suited to data centers or enterprises who wish to offer a reliable, flexible, scalable and price competitive cloud computing service, Orkestra-SDS features automatic management of data storage tiers and a unique pricing model based on managed devices rather than capacity.

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Orkestra-SDS can be downloaded now for a free trial at: http://mpstor.com/index.php/component/dtracker/?filetitle=orkestra&filename=Orkestra-SDS.zip

"Orkestra-SDS is unique in that it automates the optimized use of tiered storage infrastructure," said Mo Hassine, product manager at MPSTOR. "This allows the datacenter end user to provison the storage service level agreement he needs for his application. For the datacenter operator, Orkestra-SDS provides increased profitability through features such as increased utilization and and process automation."

Orkestra-SDS also offers the flexibility of multiple interfaces including the OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) interface that allows any number of Orkestra-SAM (storage management array solution) or third party storage nodes to be managed.  By enabling storage resources to be added dynamically, Orkestra-SDS functions as a scaleout Elastic Block Storage (EBS) datacenter solution or "endless SAN in the cloud."  For developers wishing to develop their own provisioning tools, Orkestra-SDS provides two APIs and a provisioning toolset.

The complete MPSTOR Orkestrasuite including Orkestra-SDS, Orkestra-SAM and Orkestra-IaaS, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution, can now all be downloaded from the MPSTOR website for quick and easy integration with a wide range of cloud platforms.

About MPSTOR
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