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What is Simplyblock?

Simplyblock is a high-performance, distributed storage orchestration layer designed for cloud-native environments. It provides NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) block storage to hosts and offers block storage to containers through its Container Storage Interface (CSI) and ProxMox drivers.

What makes Simplyblock Special?

  • Environment Agnostic: Simplyblock operates seamlessly across major cloud providers, regional, and specialized providers, bare-metal and virtual provisioners, and private clouds, including both virtualized and bare-metal Kubernetes environments.

  • NVMe-Optimized: Simplyblock is built from scratch around NVMe. All internal and external storage access is entirely based on NVMe and NVMe over Fabric (TCP, RDMA). This includes local back-storage on storage nodes, host-to-cluster, and node-to-node traffic. Together with the user-space data plane, distributed data placement, and advanced quality of service (QoS) and other characteristics, this makes simplyblock the storage platform with the most advanced performance guarantees in hyperconverged solutions available today.

  • User-Space Data Plane: Simplyblock data plane is built entirely in user-space with an interrupt-free, lockless, zero-copy architecture with thread-to-core pinning. The hot data path entirely avoids Linux kernel involvement, data copies, dynamic thread scheduling, and inter-thread synchronization. Its deployment is fully numa-node-aware.

  • Advanced QoS: Simplyblock provides not only IOPS or throughput-based caps, but also true QoS service classes, effectively isolating IO traffic.

  • Distributed Data Placement: Simplyblock's advanced data placement, which is based on small, fixed-size data chunks, ensures a perfectly balanced utilization of storage, compute, and network bandwidth, avoiding any performance bottlenecks local to specific nodes. This provides almost linear performance scalability for the cluster.

  • Containerized Architecture: The solution comprises:

    • Storage Nodes: Container stacks delivering distributed data services via NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe over TCP), forming storage clusters.
    • Management Nodes: Container stacks offering control and management services, collectively known as the control plane.

  • Platform Support: Simplyblock supports deployment on virtual machines, bare-metal instances, and Kubernetes containers, compatible with x86 and ARM architectures.

  • Deployment Flexibility: Simplyblock offers the greatest deployment flexibility in the industry. It can be deployed hyper-converged, disaggregated, and in a hybrid fashion, combining the best of both worlds.

Customer Benefits Across Industries

Simplyblock offers tailored advantages to various sectors:

  • Financial Services: Enhances data management by boosting performance, strengthening security, and optimizing cloud storage costs.

  • Media and Gaming: Improves storage performance, reduces costs, and streamlines data management, facilitating efficient handling of large media files and gaming data.

  • Technology and SaaS Companies: Provides cost savings and performance enhancements, simplifying storage management and improving application performance without significant infrastructure changes.

  • Telecommunications: Offers ultra-low-latency access to data, enhances security, and simplifies complex storage infrastructures, aiding in the efficient management of customer records and network telemetry.

  • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: Delivers cost efficiency, enhanced performance, scalability, and robust data security, addressing the unique storage demands of blockchain networks.