Recognized as a top choice for CIOs to increase the business value of enterprise storage, simplify the data infrastructure, and lower CAPEX and OPEX, Infinidat has been named by CIO TechWorld as one of the “Top 10 Leading Enterprise Storage Solution Providers of 2024” in the world.
Infinidat delivers high-end solutions to the enterprise market, providing best-in-class cyber-resilient storage offerings for large enterprises and organizations with stringent requirements, and high-performance, scalable storage needs.
Infinidat is known for its continuous innovation, transforming enterprise storage over the past few years with unprecedented capabilities and breakthrough integrations. The storage industry is highly competitive, but Infinidat has delivered the high-end solutions that enterprises require − and beyond − including everything from the highest-performance storage arrays at the industry’s lowest latency in hybrid multi-cloud environments to groundbreaking cyber resilient capabilities to minimize and neutralize ransomware and malware.
In May 2024, Infinidat introduced the InfiniBox® G4 family of next-generation storage arrays for all-flash and hybrid configurations. The new InfiniBox G4 solution is a breakthrough with its leap ahead in performance, delivering an improvement of up to 2.5x.
This launch also included support for Microsoft Azure public cloud with InfuzeOS™ Cloud Edition (AWS support was launched in 2023), and enhancements to Infinidat’s industry-acclaimed InfiniSafe® enterprise cyber storage resilience and recovery solution. Breaking new ground, Infinidat introduced a new automated cyber resiliency and recovery solution that is revolutionizing how enterprises can minimize the impact of ransomware and malware attacks. Infinidat’s InfiniSafe® Automated Cyber Protection (ACP) provides seamless integration with data center-wide cyber security software that is designed to reduce the threat window of cyberattacks.
“The new InfiniBox G4 family adds a new level of performance, expanding beyond the already impressive benchmarks set by previous Infinidat generations. The enhancements to InfiniSafe continue Infinidat’s track record of innovation in high-end enterprise storage cyber resilience and recovery. The addition of support for Microsoft Azure opens up new customer segments for Infinidat, simplifying hybrid-cloud adoption. The release is a testament to the company’s adherence to building enterprise-level solutions that you can trust – while, happily, not breaking the bank either,” says Scott Sinclair, Practice Director, Cloud, Infrastructure, and DevOps at Enterprise Strategy Group.
Infinidat’s vast experience and deep expertise in large enterprises, including 28% of the Fortune 50, makes Infinidat the #1 enterprise storage vendor for large enterprises that want to do one or more of the following − leverage hybrid multi-cloud, increase cyber resilience, and cyber recovery, consolidate storage arrays for simpler operations with AIOps, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and obtain a positive return on investment (ROI) within a year on a new storage array.
The advantage of Infinidat is that it focuses and excels because of its close relationships with its enterprise customers and some of the top IT solution partners in the world. For example, Infinidat announced in April its strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the world’s leading system integrators, working with thousands of enterprise customers, including some of the world’s largest businesses. TCS is widely recognized for its state-of-the-art, scalable systems integration capabilities and superior cloud and value-added services for global enterprises.
Enterprise Storage with Built-In Cyber Resilience
Making it one of the hottest cyber storage solution companies in the industry, Infinidat has introduced game-changing capabilities for cyber storage resilience and cyber recovery that are turning the tables on cyber criminals who launch ransomware and malware attacks on enterprises.
“I believe strongly that Infinidat offers the best solution in the marketplace for cyber-defense at the storage system level, and we have the fastest cyber recovery capabilities in the world,” remarks Phil Bullinger, CEO of Infinidat.
“Ransomware can shut down billion-dollar global businesses overnight. Until recently, we’ve never really faced anything like that in the industry from a business continuity point of view,” he adds. “Nevertheless, in the face of these cyberattacks, our InfiniSafe solution provides a comprehensive set of capabilities for cyber resilience, including immutable snapshots, logical air gapping, fenced forensic environment, cyber detection, and rapid recovery of known clean copies of data.”
Infinidat’s CEO also points to Infinidat’s innovation in automated enterprise storage cyber protection – a solution that seamlessly integrates with Security Operation Centers (SOC) and existing cyber security software applications. “We’ve recently launched an automated cyber protection capability, called InfiniSafe Automated Cyber Protection, or ACP, which is designed to reduce the threat window of cyberattacks. With our InfiniSafe ACP capability, a security-related incident or event triggers immediate automated immutable snapshots of data, providing the ability to protect InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA block-based volumes and file systems and ensure near instantaneous cyber recovery.”
Enterprise Storage with Hybrid Multi-Cloud Support
Many enterprises have realized that their high-performance, business-critical workloads need to remain in the data center, where it is more economical and more efficient to host and manage those workloads. At the same time, the workloads that comprise most of enterprise primary storage have several use cases in the public cloud − backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery, test/dev/POC, and general burst storage use cases, where bursting or some level of tiering is important.
“As with most choices in technology, there are both very distinct and more nuanced trade-offs between on-premises and the public cloud,” says Bullinger. “Public clouds offer a range of infrastructure choices, elastic scalability, and resource agility, but it’s fundamentally a shared, multi-tenant resource. On-premises, in contrast, provides dedicated infrastructure over private networks that can be infinitely tailored to your unique requirements to deliver precise administrative control and sovereignty over resources. Hybrid clouds, of course, are a combination of the two, and if you are using both AWS and Azure, you have a seamless multi-cloud implementation supported by Infinidat.”
Native AIOps for Enhanced IT Performance
AIOps delivers the benefits of predictive analytics, automation, performance monitoring, event correlation, and more. This can be a game-changer in highly competitive, performance-driven environments – particularly when it is applied to the storage mix through Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) offerings.
“The whole notion of simplifying IT operations is a promise that IT vendors have made to CIOs, but, unfortunately, many vendors have simply failed to deliver. What has changed now is that we’re seeing the deployment of artificial intelligence for IT operations, or AIOps. The goal is to centralize operations and improve cost management, and as storage workloads are better managed, it can drive an enterprise’s pace of innovation,” explains Infinidat’s CEO.
“Infinidat’s core architecture is built on our multi-patented Neural Cache,” he adds. “And it’s a great example of AIOps technology: the cache has built-in intelligence that optimizes application environments for performance over time and, ultimately, delivers a zero-touch, set-it-and-forget-it experience.”
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