ProphetStor to collaborate with China Telecom's Shanghai Research Institute

ProphetStor Data Services, which deals in software-defined storage (SDS), has signed a collaboration agreement with the Shanghai Research Institute (SRI), one of three R&D institutes run by China Telecom, to create software-defined storage products and services for cloud computing.
 
SRI chose to work with ProphetStor's Federator SDS for its ability to transform existing storage silos and commodity hardware into a scalable storage infrastructure. This combination will provide customers with enterprise-class storage services and resource management to ensure high availability and to meet increasingly strict service-level agreements (SLAs).

“ProphetStor has demonstrated their technical depth and experience as a leader in software-defined storage solutions.  We choose ProphetStor because we want to explore the possibilities of Federator for storage orchestration to address the complexity of management and to provide the best next generation software-defined data center solution for our local market,” said Duan Yong, Vice Director, Cloud Computing Line, Shanghai Research Institute of China Telecom. 

“Working together with ProphetStor, we will drive research and development on cloud storage solutions based on the elastic characteristics of cloud and the demands in China to optimise cloud service operation, thus helping our customers gain maximum return on their investment.”

SRI and ProphetStor are partnering on the architecture design and technical specifications for a SDS cloud storage infrastructure to serve as the template for cloud service operations. Federator SDS is providing automatic discovery and abstraction of physical storage resources into virtual pools classified by capabilities and performance, along with centralised management, automated storage provisioning, and dynamic monitoring and scheduling of resources to meet storage demands.