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Nyriad today announced the launch of UltraIOTM-as-a-Service, an on-premise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) offering tailored to meet the ever-increasing data management demands of modern enterprises.

Enterprises today face a myriad of hurdles, including capital budget constraints, rapid and unpredictable data growth, gaps in IT talent, operational complexity and ever-stringent sustainability mandates. Nyriad’s UltraIO-as-a-Service offering comprehensively addresses these challenges with flexible, simple-to-use STaaS options.

Nyriad’s UltraIO-as-a-Service user experience is defined by its simplicity, requiring only three key decisions: Contract Term, Data Services and Reserve Commitment. From there, Nyriad and its value-added reseller partners handle implementation and ongoing 24/7/365 proactive monitoring, alerting and customer support.

UltraIO-as-a-Service Features

The Nyriad UltraIO-as-a-Service STaaS offering focuses on three core customer-friendly tenets: Capacity Flexibility, Billing Simplicity and Operational Simplicity.

●  Capacity Flexibility:

○  Real-time flexibility to increase the Reserve Capacity throughout the term as business needs evolve, allowing the business to capitalize on lower Reserve Rates.

○  Allows customers to scale the Reserve Capacity back down within the term as long as it remains above the initial contracted amount.

○  Delivers an On-demand Capacity amount equal to or greater than the Reserve Capacity, allowing customers to rapidly deploy new workloads and offerings without requiring new contracts or additional capacity deployments.

●  Billing Simplicity:

○  Comprehensive reporting ensures visibility into storage consumption and system usage.

○  Eliminates billing surprises. The monthly On-Demand price per GB is the same as the Reserve Pricing – there are no premiums or overage charges for using the burst capacity.

○  Billing is based on the capacity used, eliminating the complexity associated with charging for allocated capacity or effective use based on data reduction.

●  Operational Simplicity:

○  Easily integrates with an ecosystem of third-party file systems and software solutions. 

○  Delivers round-the-clock proactive support with service-level agreements (SLAs).

○  Allows customers to subscribe to a single storage system for block, file and object data types – eliminating the cost and operational complexity of multiple storage solutions.

The UltraIO-as-a-Service is built on top of the UltraIO storage system, which delivers a powerful combination of consistent performance, fail-safe data availability and true management simplicity. Architected with a combination of GPUs and CPUs and leveraging advanced erasure coding techniques, the system leverages higher-capacity drives to deliver a high efficiency ratio of usable to raw capacity, up to 92 percent, at a low total cost of ownership. UltraIO can reduce the time required to complete complex projects by up to 35 percent and supports sustainability initiatives by reducing the carbon footprint by two-thirds compared to similarly sized RAID-based storage arrays from other vendors.

Nyriad’s introduction of UltraIO-as-a-Service comes at a pivotal moment for the global enterprise storage landscape. According to IDC’s IT Infrastructure for Storage and Data Management Survey (#US50532023, March 2023), the adoption of Storage as a Service (STaaS) is no longer a mere option but a strategic imperative for organizations aiming to remain competitive.

“Storage-as-a-Service models have changed the way companies of all sizes across industries consume storage to speed deployment, deploy burst capacity-on-demand and manage operational complexity, among other reasons,” said Dave Pearson, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group, IDC. “As the models evolve and businesses become more accustomed to consuming storage as a service, customers are now scrutinizing service models more stringently to ensure they fully understand the nuances of each offering and don’t run into any surprises. With Nyriad’s introduction of their UltraIO-as-a-Service storage model, Nyriad looks to have provided a simple to understand and flexible offering for their partners and customers alike.”

“Nyriad’s UltraIO-as-a-Service STaaS offering removes much of the complexity we see with many similar offerings available today,” said Rod Wright, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Engineering, Technologent. “Technologent thrives on our ability to provide compelling and easily accessible offerings that support our customers’ business needs. Delivering innovative and modern solutions like UltraIO-as-a-Service positions us as a critical and forward-thinking partner who always strives to add value for our customers.”

“We spent considerable time listening to our customers and partners to understand which features of existing storage-as-a-service offerings deliver real value to their customers,” said Andrew Russell, Chief Revenue Officer, Nyriad, Inc. “Armed with that intelligence, we are confident UltraIO-as-a-Service positions our partners to offer their end customers an easy-to-understand, easy-to-deploy, and easy-to-consume storage solution that meets their technology, business, and budgetary requirements.” 

To learn more about UltraIO-as-a-Service, please visit: www.nyriad.io/staas

Nyriad, provider of cutting edge GPU storage technology, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider, today announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Nyriad’s Master Government Aggregator®, making the company’s UltraIO storage system available to the Public Sector through Carahsoft’s reseller partners, NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 (ITES-SW2), National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA), and OMNIA Partners contracts.

In 2022, the global Government IT spending amounted to over 551 billion U.S. dollars, which is an increase of nine percent compared to 2021, and it is expected to increase even more in 2023 to 589 billion U.S. dollars worldwide. The increase in IT spending is driven by a variety of factors, including the need to modernize outdated systems, improve cybersecurity, and enhance digital services and capabilities for internal and external users. As IT spending in the government sector continues to grow, there is a critical need for modern and efficient storage solutions that can meet the demands of data-intensive applications, protect against cyber threats, and facilitate the digital transformation of government services. The Nyriad UltraIO storage system delivers the ideal solution to address these needs and enable government agencies to improve their operations and services.

The Nyriad UltraIO storage system will enable improved capabilities across several use cases, such as:

1. High-performance computing (HPC) – Government agencies and academic institutions rely on high-performance computing to perform complex simulations, modeling, and analysis. The UltraIO storage system enables performant, cost efficient storage access, and ingest for large capacity points of HPC results inside of a single array. Additionally, with block-level erasure codes, the storage system provides a high degree of system resiliency, ensuring data integrity and protection against potential data loss.
2. Backup and recovery – Government agencies and academic institutions must be prepared for unexpected events, such as natural disasters or cyberattacks, that can result in data loss. The UltraIO storage system’s combined GPU + CPU architecture enables parallel read and write capabilities to perform backup and restore operations with exceptional performance.
3. Active archive – Government agencies and academic institutions archive their data to preserve records for historical, legal, and regulatory purposes. This data may include records of legislative proceedings, court cases, financial transactions, and other important documents. As data sets grow, the value of the analytical insights the data provides has grown as well.  We access the data, looking for trends and insights that can be advantageous for good decision making.  Enhanced data access beyond normal archival capabilities is needed for this.  With its high throughput, fast retrieval, and high data protection capabilities, the UltraIO storage solution is the next architectural step for implementing an active archive.  This is cost efficient storage that allows performant access to warm tier archive data.
4. Video and imaging – Government agencies and academic institutions produce and store large amounts of media content, such as videos, images, and audio files. Because these agencies use video surveillance systems as a security measure to monitor public areas, protect critical infrastructure, and ensure public safety, a storage system with fast data ingest and playback capabilities or analytics processing is an essential enabler of quick incident response. In fact, the Nyriad UltraIO storage system can ingest video streams from as many as 90,000 cameras simultaneously, while providing highly resilient large-scale storage capacity. The UltraIO storage system’s modern, GPU-accelerated storage also facilitates video production tasks such as 8K resolution or higher video editing without the need to transcode, create proxies, or copy files across the network – enabling agencies to work more efficiently, saving time and money.

Nyriad’s UltraIO storage system is available through Carahsoft’s SEWP V contracts NNG15SC03B and NNG15SC27B, ITES-SW2 Contract W52P1J-20-D-0042, NCPA Contract NCPA01-86, and OMNIA Partners Contract #R191902.

Nyriad and DigitalGlue have announced that Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) has chosen Nyriad UltraIO storage and the DigitalGlue creative.space solution as the foundation for its editorial and media asset management environment. In doing so, TBN will be able to improve the performance, resilience, and efficiency of its media production workflows while removing complex IT-centric tasks and simplifying them with a streamlined user experience. TBN can now better optimize its resources, eliminate costly post-production delays, and continue to deliver high-quality content on time and within budget.

Launched in 1973 by Christian television pioneers Paul and Jan Crouch, TBN began as one television station broadcasting a few hours of Christian programming each day to viewers throughout the Los Angeles area. In the years since, TBN has grown into a family of over thirty twenty-four-hour global networks reaching every inhabited continent with entertaining, inspirational, and life-changing programming for every family member and demographic.

The programming requirements for TBN are substantial and require a team of writers, producers, and creatives to generate fresh and engaging content that appeals to their audience. This task involves producing a wide range of television shows, documentaries, films, news programs, educational programs, and more. Additionally, TBN constantly refreshes its content to keep audiences engaged and interested, which requires a continuous stream of new ideas, scripts, and concepts. Supporting a network of this size and scope was beginning to put a strain on its aging data storage infrastructure, and it was decided that a replacement solution was required.

After careful consideration of its current storage, as well as an exhaustive review of another nine potential solutions, the Nyriad UltraIO storage platform and DigitalGlue creative.space combined solution was found to be the most highly performant, more resilient, and dramatically more cost-effective – from both a cost of acquisition and overall TCO standpoint, than every one of the competitors.

To learn more about the joint Nyriad UltraIO and DigitalGlue creative.space solution, please visit: https://www.nyriad.io/nyriad-and-digitalglue-solution-brief/ and https://www.creative.space/partnerships/nyriad.

Nyriad has announced that it will showcase its UltraIO data storage solution at the upcoming 2023 NAB Show, the ultimate gathering of media, entertainment, and technology professionals, highlighting the latest innovations and trends shaping the industry. In addition, during the event taking place April 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Nyriad will be joined by strategic partners DigitalGlue, RED Digital Cinema and ATTO Technology, to demonstrate the seamless interoperability and the enhanced capabilities of their joint end-to-end solutions.

NAB attendees visiting the Nyriad Booth #N1029 will see first-hand how its cutting-edge, GPU-accelerated technology, the UltraIO storage system, empowers creative professionals to edit high-resolution video (8K and higher) seamlessly, eliminating the need for time-consuming transcoding, proxy creation, or file transfer across the network. This not only saves precious time and money but also enhances the overall efficiency of creative workflows, contributing to the company’s bottom line. By streamlining the editing process, the UltraIO storage system empowers creatives to work more effectively, producing exceptional results and driving business success.

In addition, Nyriad Booth #N1029 will also feature interoperability demos with DigitalGlue which will feature its creative.space platform that is purpose-built to simplify how creatives work and collaborate, both onsite and remotely; RED, provider of the most powerful and versatile lineup of cinema cameras in the industry; and ATTO Technology, a global leader in network and storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for the most data-intensive computing environments.

The joint demo will showcase the capabilities of a RED V-RAPTOR 8K VV camera with a Canon XJ22 Digi-super studio lens, which will be located in Nyriad’s booth along with the UltraIO storage system, creative.space, and ATTO network solutions. The camera will capture video footage, which will then be ingested by a creative.space ROGUE PRO system where it can be utilized onsite. The footage will be replicated seamlessly to a creative.space system that is integrated with a multi-petabyte Nyriad UltraIO data storage system, located in a remote data center in the Bay Area and accessed by ATTO-powered workstations. Attendees will see how the joint solution delivers an efficient and effective end-to-end process for ingesting footage on-location, replicating it to an off-site target, collaborating easily, and facilitating seamless editing across multiple geographically dispersed locations. 

In addition, the demonstrations will show:

• Performance – 8K video editing and high-performance networking to increase productivity, from anywhere, at anytime
• Efficiency – optimize resources, eliminate costly delays in post-production, and deliver great content on deadline and on budget
• Resilience – data protected and available in the studio, on location, in post-production houses, and remote editing facilities 
• Simplicity – edit while capture; streamlined workflows enable increased quality outcomes and speed time-to-release

To learn more about the 2023 NAB Show and to register to attend, please visit: https://nabshow.com/2023/.

Please join Nyriad, DigitalGlue and RED Digital for a hosted Cocktail Reception during the show, on Monday, April 17, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm in the Nyriad Booth N1029. Register to attend here: https://www.nyriad.io/cocktail-hour-at-nab-show-2023/.

Nyriad announced today that Field CTO Adam Roberts will present at Storage Technology Showcase(STS) and discuss how organizations can achieve exceptional performance and stability with erasure codes on a combined CPU/GPU design. Nyriad will also showcase UltraIO, the company’s data storage system that helps organizations enhance agility, accelerate innovation, and gain the competitive advantage necessary to achieve business growth and success.

Today’s data-driven organizations must process massive amounts of data to reengineer operations, accelerate innovation and implement more efficient service delivery models. These organizations rely on computing performance to help drive their success with greater agility, reliability and efficiency. However, traditional RAID implementations for block storage pose performance issues and failure domain problems that can lead to serious risks.

Nyriad offers a new approach that implements erasure codes on a combined CPU/GPU architecture with intelligent data placement, enabling true performance and resilience in the same solution. A properly designed combined CPU and GPU architecture, leveraging block-level erasure codes, provides stable performance even after numerous drive failures, retaining performance similar to an optimized array. Block-based erasure codes can be implemented in such a way that the storage system will experience less than a 5% performance degradation to the array, even when as many as 20 drives out of a 204-drive array have been marked as failed.

Storage Technology Showcase is a vendor-neutral symposium for high-volume digital and long-term storage engineers and executives. STS addresses the current and future challenges of fast-moving storage technologies. Attendees and participating solution providers represent thought leadership from around the world, with installations of 100s of petabytes of local cloud or on-premise storage.

Event details

• Storage Technology Showcase will be held March 13-15 at the Marriott University Park in Tucson, Arizona
• Roberts’ presentation will take place on Wednesday, March 15, at 11 a.m. pacific time
• Attendees may stop by and visit Nyriad’s station at the Marriott