Dimension Data announced the availability of tiered storage options as part of its enterprise-class Public Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering.
According to the company public cloud clients can now access three tiers of block-based storage at USD rates of 0.07 to 0.44 per GB per month. Dimension Data claims this will enable businesses to increase efficiencies in the cloud and significantly reduce total storage cost "by matching the level of protection, performance and accessibility of data to the storage media that best suits an application."
The solution is based on EMC’s VNX storage platform, and the company will offer high-performance, standard and economy tiers "tailored to fulfill the precise requirements of workloads and data sets."
A key benefit of the offering is that it allows organisations to change the type of storage required for cloud servers on the fly.
The service leverages solid state drives (SSD) to accelerate performance for both options
Dave Hanrahan, general manager of cloud services at Dimension Data said, “Dimension Data is committed to providing a high performance cloud that is easy to use and customise."
"Providing additional options around storage media is an important innovation that enables our clients to leverage the cloud for a variety of applications including high performance databases as well as less demanding applications such as archiving, backup and long term data retention.”
Australian clients, along with those on the US west coast, and in Europe can access the offering first and it will be rolled out to other Public CaaS environments in the coming months.
Current Dimension Data public CaaS customer cloud servers will automatically be associated with the Standard tier, which was the previous level of storage offered.
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