StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

Introduction to StorPool Storage

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Boyan Krosnov, CPO of StorPool Storage gives an overview of StorPool. Its block storage software with a scale-out, shared-nothing architecture, which transforms commodity hardware into a high-performance data storage platform for demanding workloads.

StorPool is one of the fastest software-defined block storage solutions on the market. With its advanced capabilities, a high number of features and support for multiple IT/software stacks and wide range of cloud management platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula) and new-age technologies (OpenSource, Kubernetes, etc.) StorPool is the ultimate data storage solution for leading public and private cloud builders at scale.

Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

Typical Customers and Why Companies Select StorPool

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Boyan Krosnov presents the profiles of the typical StorPool’s customers. StorPool’s data management platform is used by leading public and private clouds – enterprises, SaaS, hosting, cloud providers and MSPs. It is the preferred choice for companies, which need to build a high-performance cloud for running demanding workloads and applications.

In this part of the presentation, Boyan will showcase success stories with three companies:

• Dustin – A publicly listed European MSP which uses StorPool as the foundation for it’s New Age IT stack to consolidate and replace it’s traditional IT stack
• Amito – Infrastructure and managed service provider powering its operations with StorPool
• Katapult – Virtual Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform running on StorPool

Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

StorPool Тesting Мethodology for Еvaluating the Storage Performance of Any Cloud

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Most cloud architects already understand that raw storage performance is critical for their service quality and business success. Better application performance (time to load a page, time to rebuild or execute a specific query, fast sync, compile times, etc.) results in happier users, lower TCO and improved ROI. Public cloud operators rely on performance as a competitive edge to attract and retain customers, which is even more important and harder to achieve in multi-tenant environments.

All-in-all, cloud performance is a key point, which is often misunderstood. As performance is affected by multiple factors, to improve it you need to understand the modes in which a system operates. StorPool presents a testing methodology for evaluating the storage performance of any cloud, in the right way. Presented by StorPool CPO, Boyan Krosnov.

Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

StorPool Performance Мeasurement and Comparison of Leading Public Clouds

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Boyan Krosnov, CPO of StorPool presents what are the key tests you need to perform on your cloud environment to analyze its storage performance. Thanks to his experience in building storage solutions for some of the world’s most demanding clouds, his team at StorPool has created a robust, yet simple performance tests framework for benchmarking data storage system performance.

The framework uses a number of easy-to-run tools/tests, including FIO, rsync, pgbench, sysbench and more. It also covers how to read the results you get and reference values one expects to get. Weighted by price and price/performance, allows one to take valuable data-driven decisions on improving application and cloud performance.

During this part of the presentation, StorPool dissects the block storage offerings of four leading public clouds – Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Digital Ocean and will compare them against two StorPool-based clouds. All systems in the tests are production ones – 5 public clouds and 1 private. And all but one of the systems (StorPool’s internal private cloud) are part of generally available public cloud offerings, so the results are easily reproducible.

Personnel: Boyan Krosnov

How StorPool-Powered Clouds Compete with Leading Public Clouds

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These are the reasons why companies choose to use StorPool when they need a high-performance storage platform for their clouds. As a result, their end-users applications perform measurably better – as per the measurements, up to 2.5 times better than the second-best public cloud offering and more than 10 times better than the other leading clouds in some tests.

StorPool delivers a unique combination of performance (less than 100 microseconds and millions of IOPS), reliability, scalability, ease of use and proactive mission-critical support. It is a good fit for demanding public and private clouds.

Personnel: Boyan Krosnov