What is STaaS?
STaaS delivers storage hardware and infrastructure to your data centre or colocation facility using a cloud-like consumption model. It mirrors the way households pay for their monthly electricity bills, but instead of kilowatt-hour, customers pay for the storage space they consume with cost bound to actual usage. The immediate outcomes of this approach are increased flexibility and efficiency.
Customers can choose from a wide range of subscription tiers based on their specific requirements. With IGXGlobal, all they need to do is provide this information, and the company will work on their behalf to find the best STaaS plan.
Evergreen//One: A secure, sovereign on-premises solution with a cloud-like consumption model
IGXGlobal’s STaaS offering is based on Pure’s Evergreen//One. It is a subscription model based on consumption, which means customers only pay for what they use. Highly-secure, the solution boasts advanced data protection and encryption capabilities. There is no upfront capital expenditure, and customers benefit from dynamic on-demand buffer capacity that allows them to scale their data storage limits without interrupting workflows.
With Evergreen//One, customers receive all the benefits of a secure, sovereign on-premises solution with a cloud-like consumption model. Usage is monitored consistently, and buffer capacity scaled in line with this reporting, while changes to the backend hardware are handled by IGXGlobal and Pure.
Customers can choose from a wide range of subscription tiers based on their specific requirements. With IGXGlobal, all they need to do is provide this information, and the company will work on their behalf to find the best STaaS plan.
Expanding on the cloud-like experience Pure Storage delivers, enterprise-grade SLAs are written into the customer contract and monitored by their IGXGlobal Technical Account Manager. Core SLAs include a guaranteed performance level, uptime, energy efficiency, and zero downtime for upgrades and maintenance.
While STaaS is clearly beneficial for regular data storage, as you’ll learn, when it comes to scaling AI, the technology is perfectly suited. That’s why Pure Storage launched Evergreen//One for AI, a solution for AI workloads that builds on all of the existing benefits of Evergreen//One.
Working closely with AI-ready and mature organisations, IGXGlobal recognises the critical need for access to the most transformative and relevant technologies. To address this, IGXGlobal swiftly introduced Evergreen//One for AI as a subscription-based service via STaaS, offering a market-leading storage solution optimised for model training and machine learning.
Guaranteed performance, flexible scaling
With Evergreen//One for AI, customers preparing for AI deployments can operate without the worry of disruptions. Service Level Agreements are based on performance guarantees that consider the maximum bandwidth of a customer’s GPUs and accelerators.
This guaranteed performance and predictability extend to pricing as well. Evergreen//One for AI is priced based on throughput as well as consumed usage, reflecting the performance required for your workloads. This allows companies to better manage resources and reinvest storage cost savings into other areas of AI development.
The consumption model is based on a dollars-per-throughput metric, ensuring customers only pay for the performance they need while retaining the flexibility to expand as their workloads evolve. This approach also offers broader benefits, such as risk mitigation.
When transitioning from a pilot project to full deployment, companies often face financial risks due to the substantial investments required. Evergreen//One for AI helps reduce this risk by enabling gradual scaling, effectively lowering the barrier to entry. Many AI storage requirements are unknown at the time of deployment and STaaS allows for bursting as your requirements grow.
Ultimately, companies looking to scale AI deployments can expect the following core benefits from Evergreen//One for AI:
- Risk avoidance - reduced initial investment and predictable scaling
- Flexibility - the ability to scale resources according to workload expansion and business requirements
- Cost efficiency - a consumption-based model in line with performance and use
The consumption model is based on a dollars-per-throughput metric, ensuring customers only pay for the performance they need while retaining the flexibility to expand as their workloads evolve