inspiration comes from Martin's previous company, where he had already gained experience with Ceph since 2011. croit brings together real customer needs and pains learned from previous storage experiences: The need for cost-efficient, flexible, and scalable storage and the pain of deploying and operating it. Founded in January 2017, the partners worked together to build the globally distributed team and company. Martin Verges Matthias Grandl Andy Muthmann
Founded >6 years ago in 2017 • Employees: 23 ◦ in 10 countries ◦ on 5 continents • Constant high growth • Deloitte Technology Fast50 Award in 2022 (854% growth 2018-2021) • Intel DAOS Partner ◦ Software Development ◦ 3rd party support • Founding member of the Ceph Foundation • Member of the Linux Foundation
(1/2)? • Supercomputer technology developed by Intel • Optimized for Low Latency I/O and High Bandwidth • Open Source • High Available • Scale-out Storage • Much more! Supported protocols: • DAOS Supported with croit: • NVMe-oF • NFS (Network File System) • S3 Object Store • SMB (Samba/CIFS)
(2/2)? Basic Concept • Distributed parallel file system • High performance KV store • Scale-out storage solution • Next generation ◦ Persistent Memory, CXL ◦ NVMe • Storage SDK Inside a DAOS storage, you can write your own data structures and models to greatly improve performance of your application • End-to-end data integrity • Provides data redundancy • Advanced data protection with self-healing • Provides multiple networking options ◦ TCP Sockets (Ethernet) ◦ RDMA (Infiniband, Omnipath) • Transactional non-blocking I/O • Linearly scales the performance
Vision We believe that all smart technologies, regardless of their complexity, should be easily usable by all companies to create better products and services for the benefit of all people. Mission Our mission is to identify and adapt intelligent open source technologies to enable companies and their employees to deploy them quickly, reliably and cost-effectively. We love learning and playing with technologies and bringing them to a wider audience in the form of beautiful and user-friendly solutions.
storage pains and needs • Easy to deploy on large storage clusters in under one hour instead of weeks • Distributes data across available media • Creates copies for redundancy • Checks data integrity • Self-heals data after hardware failures while affected data is still available • Provides access as file, block and object storage via all protocols • Scales by adding more servers • Automatically updates and upgrades the installation
the Unique Combination of: • The flexibility of Ceph is unmatched • DAOS Storage is the world's fastest storage technology as seen in the official io500 benchmarks. Latest results of the Argonne Deployment shows >6TB/s Bandwidth! • Our 24*7 Support, managed service, and professional service offering keeps away any possible trouble you might encounter without using croit. • As we are vendor agnostic, customers can save a lot of money by using the most cost efficient commodity hardware. • When planned and deployed with croit, the system can provide an extremely high availability.
Backup, Archive • Storage backend for Proxmox, OpenStack, Kubernetes, VmWare, Seafile… • Large File Systems • S3 for various use cases, e.g. ◦ Data Lakes ◦ Media Storage ◦ Backup Target • Scientific Use Cases • or a combination of the above • and many more…
cases/case studies • Washington University in St. Louis: ◦ Faster and cheaper storage solution for the Neuroinformatics Research Group ◦ Whitepaper: https://www.intel.co.uk/content/dam/www/central-libraries/us/en/documents/intel-croit -white-paper-9de.pdf • IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr (Engineering company car and traffic) ◦ croit Ceph cluster for various workloads • Eurac, Bozen University (Italy) ◦ croit Ceph cluster for various research data
(1/4) • Cloud Service Provider ◦ AWS, Google, Microsoft, IBM, … • croit differentiator ◦ Cost ◦ Not being the cloud ▪ Many of our customer made a decision against using cloud offerings (and not always for cost reasons), but expect similar benefits
(2/4) • “Appliance-based” Storage Provider ◦ NetApp, Dell EMC, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi Vantara, Pure Storage,... • croit differentiator ◦ Cost ◦ Scalability (capacity and performance) ◦ No end of life (as we constantly update the solution) ◦ No overpriced support extension for end of life products
(3/4) • Software-defined Storage Provider (not only Ceph specific) ◦ IBM Spectrum Scale, VAST, WEKA, Qumulo, CLOUDIAN, SCALITY, ddn, PAVILION, … ◦ Some of these are actually better in some aspects than our Ceph based storage solution ▪ Analytics features for data usage ▪ Ransomware protection ▪ Data workflow management ◦ But also many of them are limited in scope (object, file, block) or the supported hardware (e.g. spinning rust vs. flash) • croit differentiator ◦ Cost ◦ Features (supported storage classes) ◦ HDD and flash support ◦ Alone the option to use features or other disc types later is sometimes a differentiator
(4/4) • Ceph Storage Provider ◦ IBM, RedHat, SoftIron, Ambedded, Petasan, … • croit differentiator ◦ Cost ◦ Features (we believe to be the most complete Ceph solution) ◦ Support
Mostly direct • Started reselling business 1,5 years ago • A few resellers onboarded • Focus regions: Europe and Americas, Asia planned for earliest next year
Products: • New core platform • croit for DAOS storage (Ultra-High performance) ◦ Super computer technology ◦ Optimized for high performance computing (HPC) ◦ Made available for wide range of enterprise applications Services: • Storage as a Service • Managed storage
extension of the croit Platform with new modules like: • croit for Data Movement ◦ Managing data across systems • croit for Compute Workloads ◦ Flexible workload management Additional: • croit Hardware appliances More than just a storage company
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