SoftIron

SoftIron, a venture-backed company, focuses on creating appliances for scale-out data centers. The company offers solutions for private and public cloud, and enterprise-scale facilities. Appliances aim to improve the performance of all metrics, such as density, efficiency, capacity, speed, and heat emission. The company is mostly known for its storage solutions that are high-performing, scalable, flexible, reliable, and efficient.

SoftIron’s all design, firmware, and manufacturing is done in-house in California. SoftIron’s HyperDrive is a custom-designed, dedicated Ceph appliance, purpose-built for software-defined storage. HyperDrive allows users to deploy the Ceph storage cluster on custom-designed hardware that’s purpose-built and optimized for storage. It also integrates with the existing Ceph environment and helps users to simplify and centralize the management. HyperDrive allows running the data center at true wire speed and also reduces the cooling costs with low power.

HyperDrive Storage Manager is the company’s unified management tool for Ceph and HyperDrive Storage Router is SoftIron’s intelligent services gateway for storage, unlocking Ceph for the enterprise.