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Hedvig, the company modernizing storage and accelerating enterprise adoption of private and hybrid clouds, announced the availability of the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform version 3.0, a new release of its software-defined storage (SDS) platform. Innovations in 3.0 include end-to-end integrations, advanced security capabilities and enhancements to its comprehensive suite of caching technologies. These 3.0 capabilities enable customers to store and protect virtualized, containerized, and backup workloads from a single platform.

Weve seen a sea change in customer requirements since we released the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform two years ago. Enterprises require a platform that significantly simplifies their IT infrastructure and operations, said Avinash Lakshman, CEO and founder of Hedvig. As more mainstream enterprises adopt software-defined storage, they seek technology that plugs into their existing architecture, natively protects against growing cybersecurity and compliance mandates, and future-proofs their infrastructure with innovations in flash technology.

As more businesses adopt software-defined storage and multi-cloud infrastructure, the flexibility to accommodate primary and secondary data in a single platform becomes critical. New certifications, plugins, encryption, auditing, multitenancy, and flash-caching capabilities found in Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform 3.0 offer organizations an elastic storage system that runs on-premises, in the public cloud, or both.

New CloudScale Plugins simplify integration of SDS into existing infrastructure and operations

Hedvig adds to its existing Docker and OpenStack CloudScale Plugins with new and improved plugins for Veritas, VMware, and Red Hat. CloudScale Plugins provide pretested, validated options to ensure SDS is easier to use and operate. Hedvigs CloudScale Plugins now include:

New security features including Encrypt360 reduce the risk of hacking and ransomware

Enterprise cyber and malware attacks are on the rise, resulting in a growing need for enhanced security and encryption built directly into storage infrastructure. Hedvig Encrypt360 delivers a native, in-software approach to protecting data throughout its entire lifecycle, encrypting data thats in-use, in-flight, and at-rest. Based on Hedvigs unique distributed systems architecture, data encryption starts at the host level and carries all the way through the backend, distributed cluster nodes. Encrypt360 supports a variety of key management systems, including AWS, and enables customers to select a 256-bit AES encryption policy on a per-volume basis. Also new to the 3.0 release are advanced auditing and multitenancy access control mechanisms that, combined with Encrypt360, ensure customers can securely meet IT compliance and regulations while adopting hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

FlashFabric improvements lower the cost and complexity of adopting an all-flash data center

The Hedvig FlashFabric is a comprehensive suite of flash caching technologies that optimize performance in Hedvig clusters. In 3.0, Hedvig adds improvements to the platforms all-flash caching, including more advanced auto-tiering and read cache capabilities. Customers architecting all-flash data centers or those interested in adding all-flash resources in public clouds can easily take advantage of NVMe, 3D Xpoint and other flash innovations without having to add complex, proprietary hardware. Simply add new commodity servers or public cloud instances configured with the latest flash technologies and Hedvig will automatically consume the resources and optimize performance based on application needs.

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