Lightsand enters in the Hyperconverged Future

As organisations move to more flexible and efficient data management, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is becoming the key to agile and scalable datacentres. This is driven by the need to get rid of legacy infrastructure that’s complex, expensive and unwieldy and replace with a more integrated, software defined approach. Lightsand is leading the way with solutions that solve the problems of traditional data storage networks.

Lightsand’s approach to HCI takes this a step further by using distributed systems technologies to deliver high performance, scalability and streamlined data management.

1. Visibility

Lightsand technology, OASIS Monitor System, gives end to end visibility across the entire hyperconverged infrastructure. This visibility allows administrators to manage compute and storage resources and network performance from one single dashboard. Real time data monitoring gives insights into system health, data flow and potential bottlenecks so administrators can do proactive maintenance and resource optimisation.

For organisations running business critical applications, real time visibility means that storage extension connectivity gets the resources it needs without disruption, minimising downtime.

2. Scalability

Scalability is at the heart of HCI and Lightsand delivers on this with solutions that allow organisations to scale horizontally and vertically. You can start with what you need and scale out by adding more performance without overprovisioning. The new i-SWAN 3.0 architecture allows full Lightsand capacity so we can handle any storage extension connectivity across any distance or performance.

Enterprises using Lightsand’s HCI can add new storage protocols and multiple telco lines without disrupting existing workloads. This on-demand scaling is especially important for organisations that are growing rapidly or have fluctuating data needs.

3. Reliability

HCI solutions are designed to be high availability and fault tolerant. Lightsand infrastructure takes this further by adding advanced data protection features such as hardware advanced encryption, WAN congestion avoidance and high compression. With redundant connectivity across data centers, if one component fails the overall system performance or data integrity will not be affected. In disaster recovery replication scenarios, Lightsand’s hyperconverged infrastructure provides full system redundancy and fast recovery through automated failover. Critical data connectivity is protected.

As real time data processing and analytics becomes more important, Lightsand’s hyperconverged solutions are ready. With flexible deployment models from small edge environments to enterprise wide data centers, Lightsand ensures you can manage your data replication no matter what size or industry you are in.

In a world of rapid change Lightsand’s hyperconverged infrastructure solutions are the ones that deliver scalable, reliable and visible infrastructure to the challenges that organisations face today. With innovation and customer focus, Lightsand is building data connectivity for the future.