Storage on Demand: High Availability Without High Investment Costs

Book. Configure. Get Started: With our solution, you avoid high investment costs and achieve unbeatable data availability of 99.99% on an annual average.

Storage on Demand from firstcolo

Are you looking for a ready-to-deploy Storage on Demand infrastructure that is flexible and highly scalable?

With our highly available storage cluster, you get exactly the storage capacity you currently need, up to Big Data storage – and, of course, you only pay for the storage you use. Additionally, you receive extensive integration options through open interfaces.

Furthermore, redundancy requirements are met threefold with our storage solution, without the need to purchase three individual storage servers.

Business and Usage Benefits

The platform enables flexible storage usage with simultaneously low overall and investment costs. Storage on Demand keeps you scalable and allows you to cover growing storage needs without long-term upfront commitments.

Benefits at a glance:

Technical and Product-Related Benefits

The solution is based on a highly available, high-performance storage architecture and supports cross-site usage as well as common interfaces for easy integration.
Technical strengths:

NVMe-based high-performance clusters
Multiple replication at two locations
Available across locations
High availability standards
Compatibility with common interfaces
Big Data Cloud Storage

Our Key Features

The performance standard of our solution includes various features:

High-Performance All-Flash Cluster
(NVMe only)

Highly available NVMe storage in an infinitely scalable cluster with maximum data security.

High Availability

Storage on Demand works with a cluster of metadata servers, thereby offering high availability.

Data Replication

Thanks to triple redundancy, your data is highly available (availability of 99.99% on an annual average).

Data Protection (Erasure Coding)

Erasure coding offers higher efficiency when storing large amounts of data.

RBD (Rados Block Device)

RBD manages the storage of objects in virtual block devices across the entire Ceph storage cluster.

NFS & SMB

firstcolo Storage on Demand can be used via both protocols.

Do you have any questions? Please feel free to contact our sales team.

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firstcolo – Branchenübergreifende Kompetenz

Viele Kunden vertrauen bereits auf die Data Center Services von firstcolo. Als B2B-Anbieter sind wir spezialisiert auf verschiedene Branchen wie SaaS, E-Commerce, Hosting, Healthcare, Cloud-Provider, IaaS, Technologieunternehmen (Forschung und KI) sowie öffentliche Einrichtungen. Unsere Expertise und unser Engagement machen uns zu einem verlässlichen Partner.

Storage on Demand: Frequently Asked Questions

Would you like to learn more about the product? Here you will find an overview of frequently asked questions.

What are the advantages of firstcolo Storage on Demand?

With our Storage on Demand concept, you only rent as much data storage capacity as you actually need. This means you are always prepared for short-term, optimal adaptation to growing storage requirements: even Big Data storage is no problem with our Big Data Storage Solutions. You avoid high investment expenditures.

How secure is your data on Storage on Demand?

Through the distributed structure of Storage on Demand in our data centers in Frankfurt am Main, firstcolo offers high data security. Additionally, we use erasure coding and multiple replication to ensure full availability at all times, even in the event of hardware failures.

How can you use Storage on Demand?

Since Storage on Demand offers different access methods and firstcolo supports its customers with its expertise in integrating all possible scenarios, anyone can use Storage on Demand.

For which use cases is Storage on Demand particularly suitable?

Storage on Demand is particularly suitable for dynamic or rapidly growing data environments. Typical application scenarios include Big Data analytics, AI workloads, backup and archive systems, media and content platforms, and project environments with fluctuating storage needs. Companies with short-term capacity requirements or without their own storage infrastructure also benefit from the flexible model without high initial investments.

Do you have more questions? You can find answers in our glossary.

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