STONES: Virtualization according to E4
STONES is a suite of E4 solutions for virtualisation in industrial sector, consisting of: VSTONE (converged infrastructure); VSHUFFLE (hyperconverged infrastructure); TWINSTONE (replication, backup and DR infrastructure)
Designed and engineered exclusively for our clients
Thanks to a pre-installed subscription to receive frequent updates, STONES always remains state-of-the-art, efficient and protected.
The STONES approach
STONES is the platform for enabling the use of high performance onsite virtualisation resources that are flexible and scalable.
Our classic Converged solution, an expandable cluster catering for requirements ranging from those of a small business to those of a large corporation, that guarantees all the performance and reliability standards of an industrial solution.
Our years of experience in installing VSTONE solutions have helped create an infrastructure that is made-to-measure, up-to-date, and fit for any kind of workspace.
The Hyperconverged solution, E4’s architectural innovation of the past few years. Our servers support infrastructures that integrate both node and storage functionalities, with the goal of creating an ever unique vision of a modern datacentre.
VSHUFFLE can deal with simple and complex requests alike, offering types of server and configuration unavailable from most other suppliers.
Our simple replication, backup and disaster recovery system for preventing the loss of vital data. It protects clients, new to the world of virtualisation, from the loss of data integrity, whilst saving them money. Our replication, backup and disaster recovery system is available with all our other virtualisation solutions.
Designed to be the best: always
STONES, which combines components for computing, storage and networking with high grade flexibility and scalability, enables our clients to transform their data centres and obtain numerous IT benefits.
The STONES architecture is made simple by having the three pre-defined layouts (Hyperconverged, Converged and Standalone Backup/Disaster Recovery); in addition, E4 guarantees compatibility between hardware and software components. Our solution can be readied extremely quickly: the end users need only choose the dimensions of the infrastructure they require, selecting the quantity of resources necessary to satisfy their specific needs.
E4’s virtualization solutions include several services that keep the system secure and up-to-date. These allow our clients to begin optimising the management of their IT operations immediately, bolstering and speeding up their workloads whilst simultaneously saving them money in management costs.
Discover the advantages
Solution Layout
Technical features
• Simple sizing based on the number of VMs
• Hybrid and AllFlash configurations to cover the full range of requests
• Design integrity that protects the investment enabling expansion
• STONES solutions are fully integrated, preconfigured, tested and released ” turnkey ” to the client
• Based on the VMware vSphere ecosystem, STONES solutions are the basis for developing a complete infrastructure that complies with the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) specifications.
• The architecture of STONES is able manage any workload, virtual desktop and business-critical application with easy and excellence
Architectural Advantages
FULL SUITE
STONES is a suite of solutions that combines various computing, storage and networking components virtually, with a high degree of flexibility and scalability. It allows the client to moderinse their data centre and reap rewards from the IT environment, whether it be in the services they can offer, or in reducing their operating costs.
UP-TO-DATE
STONES integrates the best hardware and software components available on the market in terms of virtualisation (VMWARE) and business continuity (VEEAM). This is made possible by our subscriptions to individual vendors for software updates, enabling us to offer a system that is always up-to-date and secure.
FLEXIBLE
STONES allows E4 to respond to the increasing requirements of users, adapting its infrastructure both in terms of specific resources and the overall capacity of the system.
ENTERPRISE LEVEL
STONES provides businesses, which intend to equip themselves with virtualised and stable systems, with a robust and complete solution fit for the world of industry. STONES is able to satisfy the array of requirements that a modern data centre has to provide an industry-level service. The suite includes systems that are configured with converged infrastructures (VSTONE), hyper-converged infrastructures (VSHUFFLE) and for Backup and Disaster Recovery (TWINSTONE).
Why choose the E4 proposal
UNIQUE | VALIDATED
Validation at every level. Performance tests are carried out on all servers that will make up each solution before release to the client. In addition to the usual firmware, homogeneity, sanity and setup checks, we use additional specific tools to verify that the performance corresponds to the actual requirements of the client. Among the various tests used, of note are: HPL (High Performance Linpack) for measuring the computing power of the single machine in terms of FLOPs; STREAM to measure the memory access bandwidth expressed in MB / s; and IOzone to measure disk access speed, expressed in either MB/s and IOPS.
PROVEN
The individual components are tested through burn in tests developed by E4 for a period of up to 120 hours to guarantee a perfectly engineered and functioning system, thus reducing both the DoA (Dead on Arrival) and “early failure” rates after release. This significantly improves the overall reliability of our solution.
SERVICED
E4 is currently one of only a few companies that can deliver the highest level services to not only large academic and private institutions, but also to international research centers of local and global importance. These collaborations involve the design, configuration and commissioning of solutions with thousands of nodes for complex and high performance processing.
Thus, E4 is able to provide any client with any level of support and advice necessary to maintain perfect efficiency of its calculation systems, regardless of size or complexity.
New features coming soon
ON DEMAND
• GAIA enterprise based on E4 VSTONE with NVIDIA AI Enterprise
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