Vocus New Zealand says DataHub, located in Vocus Albany data centre in Auckland, enhances its mission-critical infrastructure for enterprises and government departments. SoftIron’s HyperDrive range will serve as its backbone.

Spanning more than 4,200km of fibre, Vocus delivers network and cloud solutions. It extends across the Southern Cross and Hawaiki cable systems, with an on-net presence throughout Australia.

“We chose SoftIron to provide our open-source storage infrastructure because their hardware is purpose built to optimise Ceph. We chose Ceph because it is undoubtedly one of the most powerful, distributed storage platforms available,” Kurzeja claims.

“Our combination of ‘task-specific’ and ‘secure provenance’ manufacturing methods mean that customers can expect optimised performance on every front through engineering that maximises Ceph while reducing total cost of ownership. What’s more, SoftIron hardware is manufactured in our own facilities, is fully auditable at the source code level, and can be verified free of the hidden ‘extras’ that are so often at the root of common supply chain attacks,” Straw adds.

SoftIron has re-engineered the IT manufacturing process to deliver value for the next generation of scale-out IT infrastructure challenges, in a world where sovereign resilience is becoming increasingly important.”

Vocus is embracing open source Ceph by using SoftIron’s HyperDrive to bring customer benefits that include secure provenance with data sovereignty, and ransomware protection through immutability, Kurzeja says.

“Open source solutions return control to providers like Vocus and allow for the creation and delivery of storage solutions which accurately match individual customer requirements,” concludes Kurzeja. “DataHub is ideal for those organisations with vast quantities of data and elevated privacy and security priorities, including enterprises, government, and other organisations where security and data fidelity are a priority.”

The SoftIron HyperDrive family storage appliances are available for POC and purchase today. SoftIron offers both traditional purchasing (CAPEX) and as-a-Service (OPEX) options.

This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 6 December 2021.