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Nebulon, a storage startup that came out of stealth in June, aims to compete with SAN arrays and HCI. It has built a product that fits into neither category. Nebulon's advantage over HCI from offloading storage-related processing from the host server CPUs. Their advantage of SAN is cost saving.  

Nebulon's flexibility has a real attraction. Service providers, dev and test environments, shared DR facilities or those wanting a more flexible approach without some of the costs often associated with that. Supplying their cards through established server vendors is smart and positions them as an interesting vendor with a fresh approach to storage that is worth watching.

Nebulon, the leader in Cloud-Defined Storage, makes The Tech Tribune's list of 2021 Best Tech Startups in Fremont.

The simplicity and beauty of the Nebulon offering to me appears to be mostly within the buying model. The team have partnered with a number of server vendors and you can add the Nebulon SPU and services subscription to your order the same as you would any other SKU. It is really as simple as buying a RAID controller.

Will the rise of the DPU mean the fall of the traditional storage array? The Data Processing Unit (DPU) has seen a surge due to successful systems such as AWS Nitro. However, what happens when you bypass the concept of HCI using the DPU? That’s the promise from startup Nebulon.

By leveraging automation and AI, IT organisations can help ease the burden of their remote workforce with automated software updates, storage operations-as-a-service and simpler programmability for at-scale automation.

Nebulon defines its offering as “cloud-defined storage (CDS)”. It’s basically an add-in card that delivers “on-premises, server-based enterprise-class storage that consumes no server CPU / memory resources and is defined and managed through the cloud”. This is achieved via a combination of nebulon ON (the cloud management plane) and the Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU).

Storage array enhancements used to be simple; a faster drive led to faster arrays. But memory-like protocols and drives have muddied the water, and hardware-enhanced drive and array controllers are also clamouring for attention.

A solution like Nebulon can bring very similar results, and more, at a fraction of the cost. The infrastructure can be simplified and standardized on ordinary x86 boxes, with cost-effective commodity Ethernet connectivity. All the magic is delivered via the cloud, giving the user a consistent experience with full control over large, globally distributed server estates.

Nebulon has developed a Kubernetes CSI driver for its cloud-defined, DPU-enhanced server SAN storage. Nebulon ON uses cloud-analytics to allow Kubernetes admins to self-service provision and manage their entire Kubernetes stack all while using the workflows they are familiar with in the public cloud.

One company that is exploring an alternative to both a SAN and software-defined storage is Nebulon. Cloud-Defined Storage makes it easier for organizations to enable self-service provisioning to their workers, many of whom will have little idea about high availability or snapshots.

CBR interviews Siamak Nazari, co-founder and CEO of Nebulon. Nebulon's Cloud-Defined Storage is a flexible, on-prem and application server-based enterprise-class storage that consumes no server resources (CPU, network or memory) and is defined and managed through the cloud.

Nebulon uncloaked from stealth in June 2020 to add a new solution, branded cloud-defined storage, to this market. The Nebulon architecture is an intriguing solution and one that many enterprises may see as a great way to build a large-scale compute farm without the dependencies of either SAN or locked-in storage.

Startup to offer on-site storage with local I/O and some controller functionality in the cloud, combining software-defined and cloud to bring “fleet management at scale.

Nebulon lance son " cloud-defined storage", une solution de stockage à base de serveurs sur site, destinée à des applications critiques, géré par le cloud Nebulon.

Qui propose une solution de stockage d'entreprise sur serveur dans le datacenter - défini et géré par le cloud.

Today, the startup Nebulon Inc. announced its first commercial offering. Well, I call them a startup since they are only two years old, but LinkedIn already lists fifty-two individuals who report company as their employer.

Nebulon Inc., a startup led by a group of storage industry veterans, today emerged from stealth mode with a product it bills as the “first ground-breaking innovation for server-based primary storage” since hyperconverged infrastructure.

"We've made it so application owners can consume enterprise class assets without having a PhD in storage," Craig Nunes, Nebulon COO.

Nebulon uses a cloud-defined storage method to provide better performance at better prices than the popular cloud-based storage approach for managing data.

The startup is attempting to thread the needle between expensive storage arrays and server-based solid-state drives that fall short handling critical applications and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) requiring additional server software.

Nebulon has emerged from stealth to launch a hybrid cloud computing platform that enables workloads to be processed in the cloud while data continues to be stored on a local application server.

Nebulon, whose founders have strong connections to 3PAR, which HP bought back in the day, is unveiling what they see as the first real innovation for server-based storage since HCI was introduced.

Nebulon has a new way to do mission-critical data storage using its just-launched cloud-defined storage services.

The start-up provides a compelling approach with on-prem storage and cloud-based management that should take-off very soon thanks to key partners.

Nebulon, Inc. présente son «  cloud-defined storage  » (ou stockage défini par le cloud), une solution de stockage à base de serveurs sur site, destinée à des applications critiques, géré par le cloud Nebulon.

The vendor is offering on-premises, server-based storage for mission critical applications managed by a Nebulon cloud.

Technology industry veterans launch Nebulon, Inc. and Cloud-Defined Storage, providing on-premises, server-based enterprise storage that is defined and managed through the cloud.

A gang of former 3PAR executives have emerged from stealth mode with a "revolutionary" new storage vendor that will sell 100 percent through OEM server manufacturers.

Nebulon is entering a new and undeveloped market, the DPU-enhanced server SAN market with cloud-delivered, AIOps management, and its competitors, at the OEM level, are suppliers such as Pensando and the other DPU suppliers.

Run by a gang of former 3PAR executives, Nebulon will sell 100 per cent through server OEMs including HPE.

Storage startup Nebulon plans to come out of stealth on [Tuesday] with a hardware-assisted, scale-out, all-flash storage array featuring real-time AI Ops management and a cloud control plane.

Nebulon is currently based at the Scottish Provident Building next to Belfast City Hall. It also runs offices from London and Seattle, with its headquarters based in California.

“We are delighted to be establishing our new software engineering team in Belfast, with the assistance of Invest NI,” he said. “Northern Ireland has established itself as an emerging leader in terms of skilled high tech and IT professionals.

Nebulon software manages single tier all-flash storage with enterprise-class reliability and low latency in the public cloud (currently AWS). This back-end management is said to be AI-based and provides composable operations and automatic updates for the on-premises software. It can manage multiple Nebulon arrays.

The company has secured $14.5m from unnamed sources and employs at least 85 people – who it calls Nebunerds. It aims to drastically simplify storage and to deliver secure, scalable and powerful data insights by building cloud-defined storage.

Four 3PAR alumni led by David Scott have set up Nebulon, a cloud-defined storage company. Scott was the CEO of 3PAR when it was sold for $2.4bn in 2010 to HP, now HPE. He ran the HPE storage business before retiring in February, 2015 to take sundry board-level positions…

A lot of vendors have looked to NVMe amongst the other cloud, software and hyperconverged tidbits in storage roundup this week, but let's start with some updates.