Atlantis USX has some very cool technology which I’ve had the pleasure to ‘play’ with over the past few weeks. In these series of posts I’ll attempt to cover the various technologies within the Atlantis USX stack.
The key technologies in the Atlantis USX In-Memory Data Services are:
- Inline IO and Data de-duplication
- Content aware IO processing
- Compression
- Fast Clone
- Storage Policies
- Thin Provisioning
This post focuses on Inline IO and Data de-duplication (or just dedupe for short) and Fast Clone and how these rich data services enable a hyper converged solution to outperform enterprise storage arrays.
Why would you use Atlantis USX?
The best way to approach this is to look at some use cases: Crazy as it seems, Atlantis USX delivers All-Flash Array performance but also gives five times the capacity of traditional storage arrays. Doing this with 100% software, no hardware appliances, and true software defined storage…
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