INFINIDAT
Storage Performance, Capacity and Cost are No Longer a Tradeoff

CIO VendorEran Brown, CTO EMEA
INFINIDAT’s strategy is to reimagine industry-standard features and implement clean sheet designs that raise the bar." That is exactly what the company has been doing. The founders vowed to offer a new storage architecture that is fundamentally different from the consumer-centric cloud storage platforms of the last decade and the legacy enterprise storage systems that came before them. INFINIDAT sells its flagship InfiniBox solution,which consolidates large numbers of legacy enterprise systems onto a more efficient, higher performance platform. "When you ask enterprises about the ever-growing size of data that humanity has generated, the most common response is— they have seen an explosion of data, like no other year before,” says Eran Brown, CTO EMEA of INFINIDAT. The world is just approaching a time where data will be the new currency, and most vendors in the world are shifting their focus to Flash storage. “Flash is not cost-effective,and the worldwide flash manufacturers cannot manufacture enough for the future to be all-Flash. As of right now, we are only manufacturing about 15-20 percent of the world's data”, says Brown.

Flash is a potential solution for the performance requirements. However, customers require better performance while keeping their budget under control. Israel-based INFINIDAT was founded to find an architecture that would disrupt the cost structure for the market—true software-defined storage for enterprises facing hundreds of Terabytes and fast capacity growth. INFINIDAT develops the software and uses commodity off the shelf hardware components. “We provide fully integrated products so that customers know their exact configuration, every single part of hardware and software integration were tested for thousands of hours in our lab,” continues Brown.

INFINIDAT's flexible model is a decision maker's delight and helps enterprises avail storage spaces at their convenience


InfiniBox is available in three variants, the F2000, F4000 and F6000, and offers 99.99999 percent uptime while being extremely reliable at petabyte scale. It is built on an architecture that uses N+2 redundancy for the critical components and an advanced dual-parity data layout and fast self-healing capabilities. These, together with operational telemetry for predictive and proactive support offers unparalleled risk management. Designed for easy compatibility with modern workloads, InfiniBox supports SAN and NAS storage protocols in the same platform and uses an intuitive HTML5-based interface for easy usage. Complex actions such as volume provisioning or setting Quality of Service (QoS) policies can be performed with ease. The system is built on RESTful API, making integration and management straightforward.

The Working Model

INFINIDAT also offers a ‘capacity-on-demand’ business model, where customers buy only portions of the system. The company, however, installs an entire array at the customer’s location so that when the customer generates more data, the capacity is already present. INFINIDAT monitors the systems remotely, so it is aware when the customer accesses the additional storage. Pricing for this extra storage is negotiated at the time of signing the first deal, negating the need for any re-negotiation. Brown says that it is this level of agility that INFINIDAT brings to customers’ businesses that sets it apart from competitors as it is something most storage vendors do not do today.

The company works with its clients to show them how to build automation into their processes. INFINIDAT offers a whole set of automation tools that could be anything from software development kits to simple tools that orchestrate a lot of the storage-related processes from the host such as backups or provisioning new capacity. Hardware and software integration is a big part of INFINIDAT’s offering; this allows customers to just power up their InfiniBox and work without any issues or hiccups. Brown’s final thought is that companies are in for a rude awakening, moving away from ‘the software will run on any hardware’ approach to the point where they will require more integration.

INFINIDAT News

Infinidat Delivers Strong 2023 First Half Growth

WALTHAM, Mass.-- Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, today announced that the company continued its momentum of strong growth and execution with 29% year-over-year growth in bookings for January through June 2023. Building on a robust 2022, Infinidat also delivered top-line revenue growth and profitable, cashflow-positive operating results in the 1H 2023 period.

“Infinidat experienced strong demand for our enterprise solutions in 1H 2023 and extended the trajectory of profitable growth we accomplished in 2021 and 2022,” said Phil Bullinger, CEO of Infinidat. “The comprehensive financial advantages and unsurpassed technical value of our enterprise storage platforms are resonating very well across enterprise IT teams contending with demanding SLAs, cyber resilience concerns, budget limitations and uncertainty, and operational complexity.”

In the first half of 2023, Infinidat expanded its award-winning InfiniSafe® cyber storage resilience software portfolio with the announcement of InfiniSafe Cyber Detection. Behind recession worries, cybersecurity was the number two concern of CEOs in the June 2023 Fortune 500 CEO survey1, driving the importance of enterprise storage infused with cyber resilience and cyber security as a crucial element of a comprehensive enterprise cybersecurity strategy. The InfiniSafe cyber storage software portfolio helps enterprise storage resist cyberattacks, including malware and ransomware. Should an enterprise be attacked, InfiniSafe and InfiniSafe Cyber Detection combine to deliver almost instantaneous recovery guaranteed.

1H 2023 Highlights

• Infinidat was named a “Customers’ Choice” in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer”: Primary Storage. It was the fourth time that Infinidat has been named a “Customers’ Choice.”

• IDC, one of the world’s leading storage and IT analyst firms, released in February 2023 a study based on interviews of several Infinidat enterprise customers detailing the financial impact of the InfiniBox® on their data center economics − IDC Business Value White Paper. The report found that Infinidat’s InfiniBox portfolio provides an 11-month payback, while reducing IT CAPEX and OPEX costs, with 51% more efficient storage management costs and a reduction in OPEX of 48%.

• In May 2023, Infinidat announced the InfuzeOS™ Cloud Edition for seamless hybrid cloud integration through the deployment of a full version of InfuzeOS residing in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. For enterprise customers, Infinidat is putting its comprehensive, software-defined storage capabilities into the public cloud to enable and support hybrid cloud storage deployments as a single node InfiniBox configuration. The InfuzeOS Cloud Edition solution expands Infinidat’s activities as an AWS Partner Network member, including its existing AWS Outposts Ready designation.

• Infinidat was named an award winner, or finalist, for 16 storage industry awards and recognitions in the first half of 2023, including the InfiniBox™ SSA II and InfiniGuard® being named Gold Winners in TechTarget’s 2022 Product of the Year Awards, renowned storage analyst firm DCIG selecting Infinidat’s InfiniBox family as one of the Top 5 High-end Storage Arrays in the world, and GigaOm, one of the leading storage analyst firms, naming Infinidat a “Leader” and “Outperformer” in the 2023 “GigaOm Radar: Primary Storage for Large Enterprises.”

Infinidat Wins 2023 OnCon Icon Awards for Top 50 Executive Team and Top 50 Marketing Team

WALTHAM, Mass.-- Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, today announced the company has won the Top 50 Executive Team Award and the Top 50 Marketing Team Award in the 2023 OnCon Icon Awards competition. The OnCon Icon Top 50 Awards are peer-based and community-voted awards that are determined by organizational observations of work in action. Winners represent some of the top teams in the business world that exhibit strong executive leadership and team orientation.

“It is an honor for Infinidat and all of our employees to receive these two OnCon Icon team awards, and we’re very grateful for this acknowledgement and recognition of our collective work, and the creativity, passion and perseverance everyone brings to our company,” said Phil Bullinger, CEO at Infinidat. “Infinidat has experienced significant transformation that has resulted in sustained growth and very positive operating results, powered by a collaborative culture and our relentless focus on the success of our partners and customers. As we move forward, I’m both very proud of what we’ve accomplished together, and excited about where we are headed.”

Infinidat has expanded its customer base to now include more than 25% of the Fortune 50, achieving 29% year-over-year growth in the first half of 2023 with profitable, cash flow positive operating results. A key to this success is the company’s delivery of its acclaimed “white glove service” experience – at no additional cost. With every purchase of any Infinidat enterprise storage solution, a Technical Advisor (TA) is assigned to serve as the experienced technical account consultant with full oversight and the point of coordination for Infinidat’s multidisciplinary approach to ensuring customer success. Partnering with enterprise customers has also led to Infinidat’s recurring recognition in winning the Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Primary Storage for the 4th time and being named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage for the 6th consecutive year.

Reflecting its team approach to working with the channel community, Infinidat has invested heavily in tools and programs to support its channel partners around the world. The Infinidat Channel Partner Program has been recognized by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with a 5-star rating. The 5-star rating has been awarded to Infinidat for two years in a row for going above and beyond in its commitment to nurturing strong, profitable, successful channel partnerships. Channel partners, ranging from sales consultants to technical personnel, are also able to earn certifications through the latest addition to Infinidat Channel Partner Program, known as Infuziast, which includes a rewards component.