About Volumez

What is Volumez?

Volumez is a Cloud-Native, Composable Data Infrastructure.

With Volumez, you can unleash a realm of opportunities as you build your next-generation cloud-native enterprise-grade applications using the highest performing, most resilient, and simplest to manage data infrastructure layer available; and the layer is predictable and cost efficient.

Volumez is a paradigm shift, using new cloud native data path architecture for block and file storage infrastructure.

At its core, Volumez is composable infrastructure software that makes it easy for developers to request and provision storage resources in the same way that they request CPU and memory resources in Amazon Elastic Block Store, Azure Persistent Disk, OCI Block Volume or Kubernetes Persistent Volume.

Volumez connects NVMe instance storage to compute instances over the network and composes a dedicated, pure-Linux storage stack for data services on each compute instance.  The Volumez data path is direct from raw NVMe media to compute servers, eliminating the need for storage controllers and software-defined storage services.

The data path prescription and orchestration is managed by the storage control plane, provided by Volumez SaaS. The storage control plane is separated from the storage which runs in customer virtual private clouds and data centers.

Volumez is not a storage system in the conventional sense, although it replaces cloud storage systems in practice, demonstrating predictable faster IOPS and reduced latency not offered by any other option. 

Volumez Provisioning Types

The Volumez solution is based on a declarative approach- the customer declares their requirements, which Volumez provides. There is no over-provisioning, which means the customer only pays for what they really need.

• Auto-Provisioning
  You specify your requirements; Volumez creates nodes to meet these requirements. When Auto-Provisioning is used, the configuration is quick and simple. Volumes are dedicated to specified applications. When an application is down, the corresponding Volume’s Media Nodes will be down as well, since they have no application to serve.

• Shared Media
  You specify your requirements; Volumez uses existing nodes to meet these requirements. In Shared Media mode, Media Nodes are shared among multiple applications. Media Nodes will automatically serve the various applications as needed. If one application is down, the Media Nodes will continue to serve the other applications.

What environments are supported with Volumez?

• Linux
  For production usage we certify Linux distributions (currently Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, and Amazon Linux) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and OCI).

• Kubernetes:

  • EKS for AWS

  • AKS for Azure

Volumez Dashboard

Volumez presents a system Dashboard, to display all important data in real-time. You can view capacity, IOPS and bandwidth information in real-time.

How is Volumez secured?