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The interest of the Internet industry in super-convergence, in a sense to replace the all-flash array has become a hot topic in recent years. Enterprises and organizations have turned their interest to super-integration, mostly because of the simplicity it brings. Users are no longer willing to spend time planning, building, and implementing traditional IT three-tier architectures designed around stand-alone servers, storage, and network components.

The traditional IT three-tier architecture is cumbersome and complex, easy to use and can not be expanded flexibly, which makes the enterprise IT system become a "slow-moving" giant, unable to quickly adapt to the rapid growth of business. With the advantage of flexibility and ease of use, super-convergence architecture has become an inevitable trend in the development of data centers in the future.

However, most of the super-converged products lack or perform poorly in advanced data protection and business continuity, and can not be used in demanding production systems, so that users can not completely get rid of the shackles of the traditional IT architecture and can not really get the great convenience brought by the super-converged architecture.

As a leading super-convergence vendor in China, SmartX officially released SMTX OS 3.5 a few days ago, which fully covers the two enhanced data protection support of dual-active cluster and backup disaster recovery, as well as key functions such as block storage service, virtualization management and operation and maintenance management, which makes it possible for the super-convergence architecture to support the core business of the enterprise.

SmartX sped up on the difficult road

For customers, super convergence can be called the innovation of the business model, not only to redeploy the infrastructure, but also to face a lot of innovative services with scalable architecture and flexible operational capabilities as the application shape changes. Achieve rapid iteration for the purpose of application.

In more than 50 domestic super-integration manufacturers, SmartX has always maintained its own unique views and characteristics. According to Kuyinan, marketing director of SmartX, from the beginning of the establishment of the company, we have chosen a relatively difficult road, focusing on large industries and value users, such as the financial sector with stringent infrastructure requirements, while developing independently.

Kuyinan said: "as a growth company, customers can enjoy the great convenience brought by the super-convergence architecture. The company's products can only be tested by customers to continuously increase customer confidence. Super-integration innovation needs to be iterated in specific application scenarios. The Internet, finance and other customers represent the future development trend."

In the market, SmartX's performance is remarkable. In addition to Unicom's super customer, SmartX has so far won financial customers such as Guotai Junan, China Merchants Securities, Taikang Life Insurance, Bohai Life Insurance, China Insurance, PICC Reinsurance, as well as large enterprise customers such as Haier, McDonald's, BOE and Bishengyuan, creating a benchmark for super integration in key industries.

With what trump card function to easily replace the traditional IT architecture?

Subversion has never been taken for granted, it has always been a variety of intertwined powerful forces in the game. The same is true for the replacement of traditional IT by super-fusion, which will inevitably encounter some difficulties and problems.

Zhang Kai, co-founder and chief technology officer of SmartX, said: this mainly focuses on the core application scenarios, such as whether the core database and production systems can meet the business's RPO (recovery point objectives) and RTO (recovery time objectives) requirements, what is the corresponding disaster recovery capability, and whether there is a smarter and more advanced management system. Wait.

SMTX OS 3.5 is the official response of SmartX to the above questions and user-level questions on the basis of several versions of iterations after a long period of independent research and development and painstaking polishing.

By significantly improving "reliability" and "ease of use", SMTX OS 3.5 brings great value to enterprises, bringing the highest level of data availability and business continuity guarantee, while achieving minimal deployment and operation and maintenance, which is also difficult to achieve in previous versions and other domestic manufacturers' products on the current market.

SMTX OS 3.5 includes the following new features:

Double active cluster: built for financial, medical and other core application scenarios that require high business continuity, ensures synchronous data replication between available domains in the data center, and provides a guarantee level of RPO = 0 and second RTO for data reliability and business continuity. It is not only the protection of data, but also the disaster recovery of the whole IT infrastructure.

Data backup and remote disaster recovery: support user-defined local data protection and remote data disaster recovery to provide users with a complete and more efficient data protection scheme than traditional backup with the ability of fast recovery and backtracking.

Block storage: supports all mainstream virtualization technologies, operating systems, OpenStack, Kubernetes, etc., and can provide strong support for core key applications (such as databases, etc.), so that the above systems enjoy the benefits of distributed storage.

Virtual machine management: strive to make the common functions of users extremely simple. Virtual machine placement group intelligent automatic scheduling batch operation and so on significantly improve the user experience as well as the operation and maintenance efficiency of business deployment and system operations.

New interface design and operation and maintenance functions are enhanced: the minimalist design of the operation interface enhances the ease of use of commonly used functions, enhances the information display experience, and makes important information easier to pay attention to. Rich operation and maintenance features, such as multi-cluster management, 200 + system operation index display and Kanban customization, and topology visualization of hard drives and nodes, can effectively improve users' operation and maintenance capabilities and reduce operation and maintenance costs.

More flexible authorization model: using a unified enterprise version plus advanced service independent authorization model, users do not need to pay for unnecessary functions, and flexibly choose the product portfolio according to the needs of their own business scenarios.

From SMTX OS 3.5, which focuses on reliability and ease of use, we can still see the persistence of SmartX: for customers in key industries such as finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, to help customers migrate their core production systems to super-integrated architecture as much as possible.

According to Zhang Kai, after the release of SMTX OS 3.5, the product value boundary of SmartX has also been greatly expanded: from virtualization scenarios to bare metal scenarios, from sensitive cloud native applications to steady-state database applications, from single data centers to multiple data centers, and from business disaster recovery requirements to easy-to-use requirements, all can be supported, which makes SmartX unique competitiveness in the super-convergence market.

In conclusion, SMTX OS is a solid foundation for enterprise users to accelerate the construction of enterprise cloud platform. It fully supports users' core production environment with a simple, efficient and flexible super-convergence architecture, which not only expands the boundaries of super-integration, but also brings enterprises a new experience of agile IT. With SMTX OS 3.5, companies will focus more on business innovation and value creation, and ultimately win over the future.

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