Best Software-Defined Storage (SDS) in Africa
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What is Software-Defined Storage (SDS) in Africa?
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a storage architecture that separates the software control layer from the physical storage hardware, allowing organizations to manage storage resources — like capacity, performance, replication, and provisioning — through a unified software layer rather than being locked into specific hardware arrays. These solutions pool storage across commodity servers or diverse storage devices and abstract them into flexible, dynamic storage services. SDS enables policy-based automation, easier scalability, hardware vendor independence, and rapid provisioning. It supports block, file, and object storage interfaces and is well suited for hybrid cloud, edge, and modern data-driven environments. Ultimately, SDS empowers IT teams to treat storage as a programmable resource, reduce costs, increase agility, and adapt quickly to changing data demands. Compare and read user reviews of the best Software-Defined Storage (SDS) in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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QuantaStor
OSNexus
QuantaStor is a unified Software-Defined Storage platform designed to scale up and out to make storage management easy while reducing overall enterprise storage costs. With support for all major file, block, and object protocols including iSCSI/FC, NFS/SMB, and S3, QuantaStor storage grids may be configured to address the needs of complex workflows which span sites and datacenters. QuantaStor’s storage grid technology is a built-in federated management system which enables QuantaStor servers to be combined together to simplify management and automation via CLI and REST APIs. The layered architecture of QuantaStor provides solution engineers with unprecedented flexibility and application design options that maximizes workload performance and fault-tolerance for a wide range of storage workloads. QuantaStor includes end-to-end security coverage enabling multi-layer data protection “on the wire” and “at rest” for enterprise and cloud storage deployments.Starting Price: $/TB based on scale -
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SoftNAS
Buurst
SoftNAS is a cloud-native, software-defined, full-featured enterprise cloud NAS filer product line for primary data storage, secondary storage and hybrid cloud data integration. It enables existing applications to securely migrate to and connect with the cloud without re-engineering. With enterprise-class NAS features like: high-availability, deduplication, compression, thin-provisioning, snapshots, replication, cloning, encryption (at rest and in transit), LDAP and Active Directory integration, and support for NFS, CIFS, iSCSI or AFP storage protocols, SoftNAS protects mission-critical and primary, active/hot data, backup/archive data and makes cloud data migration faster and more reliable. SoftNAS offers the broadest range of storage options in terms of price vs. performance and backend storage selection, on-demand at petabyte scale across the AWS and Azure Marketplaces or on-premises on VMware. -
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croit
croit
croit is a software company specialized in enterprise storage operations, providing 24/7 expert support for Ceph and Proxmox environments. We help organizations run, scale, and troubleshoot mission-critical clusters with guaranteed response times and deep upstream expertise. At the core of our offering is the croit software platform, designed to make Ceph easier to operate at scale. It delivers real-time monitoring, automated health analysis, and actionable insights, enabling teams to prevent issues, reduce operational complexity, and operate Ceph with confidence in production.Starting Price: Under $500/mo per cluster -
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StorMagic SvSAN
StorMagic
StorMagic SvSAN is simple storage virtualization. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea. SvSAN is a simple, 'set and forget' solution that enables lightweight high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, and support up to 1,000 2-node clusters. It gives organizations choice and control by allowing configurations of any x86 servers and storage types, even mixed within a cluster. Plus, SvSAN eliminates downtime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades -
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Quobyte
Quobyte
With Quobyte’s high-performance file and object storage you have the freedom to deploy anywhere (any server, any cloud), scale performance and manage large amounts of data while simplifying administration. Quobyte was designed with one goal in mind, to make your life easier. That’s why we make storage simple with a straightforward download and install (no tedious or complex configuration, no kernel modules), allowing ease of management. The ability to deploy anywhere means that you get to choose where you install your software storage solution. Whether it’s on new or existing hardware, in the cloud, or a combination of the two, Quobyte lets you pick what works best for your needs. From software updates to adding or removing nodes, everything is 100% non-disruptive in Quobyte. That way you can work whenever it’s convenient for you. So say goodbye to maintenance windows and say hello to free up your nights and weekends.Starting Price: $8,999 per year -
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DataCore SANsymphony
DataCore Software
Are you troubled by storage management nightmares? Whether you are losing sleep over managing different storage tiers for hot, warm, and cold data, or finding it hard to address disruptions and slowdowns, you can now rest easy with a truly software-defined storage solution. DataCore SANsymphony enables you to centrally automate and manage capacity provisioning and data placement across your diverse storage environment (any SAN, DAS, HCI, or JBOD). Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology and a rich set of data services, SANsymphony gives ultimate flexibility to control how you want to store and protect your data. SANsymphony allows any combination of hyper-converged, converged, and storage virtualization deployment models to reduce business risks, IT complexities and costs associated with various architectures, data migration initiatives and protocols. DataCore’s hardware-agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in & provides ultimate flexibility. -
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DataCore Swarm
DataCore Software
Are you struggling with protecting and providing access to rapidly scaling data sets or enabling distributed content-based use cases? Using tape is cost-effective but data is not instantly accessible; and tape is difficult to manage. The public cloud often presents the challenge of compounding, unpredictable recurring costs, and the inability to meet local performance and privacy requirements. DataCore Swarm provides an on-premises object storage solution that radically simplifies the ability to manage, store, and protect data while allowing S3/HTTP access to any application, device, or end-user. Swarm transforms your data archive into a flexible and immediately accessible content library that enables remote workflows, on-demand access, and massive scalability. -
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StoneFly
StoneFly
StoneFly is the provider of high-performing, elastic and always available IT infrastructure solutions. Coupled with StoneFusion, our intelligent & patented operating system architecture, we can support your data dependent processes and applications seamlessly anywhere, anytime. Configure backup, replication, disaster recovery, scale out block, file and object storage in private and / or public clouds. Support virtual, container hosting & more. StoneFly also offers Cloud data migration services for email, archives, documents, SharePoint and physical and virtual storage. Total backup and disaster recovery solutions in a single appliance or cloud solution. Hyperconverged options allow physical machines to be restored as virtual machines running directly on the StoneFly disaster recovery appliance for instant recovery.Starting Price: $499 -
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Open-E JovianDSS
Open-E
Open-E JovianDSS is a ZFS- and Linux-based data storage software tailored for enterprise-level Software-defined Storage (SDS) environments. It offers a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for data storage, backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery. With advanced features, Open-E JovianDSS ensures data reliability, integrity, and security, making it ideal for the most demanding business environments. Its flexible, hardware-agnostic architecture supports cost-effective data storage solutions, enabling organizations to optimize resources while protecting critical data. The built-in backup and disaster recovery features, among others: High Availability, On- & Off-site Data Protection and Read-only Snapshots, safeguard business operations, minimizing disruptions. Open-E JovianDSS adapts to dynamic IT needs and provides a scalable, efficient, and secure platform for managing enterprise data. -
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IBM Storage Ceph
IBM
Consolidate block, file, and object data on-premises with an enterprise storage platform that delivers a cloud-native experience. IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while helping reduce costs and provisioning times. IT Leaders are shifting from a traditional storage approach towards integrated enterprise storage platforms that can handle diverse modern workloads seamlessly across on-premises and hybrid environments to simplify IT operations, reduce costs, and adapt to new and changing requirements. IBM Storage Ceph is the only enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data protocols within a single software-defined solution that can support most enterprise operational workloads to help reduce long-term costs of operating dedicated storage systems, delivering a cloud-like experience on-premises. -
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MooseFS
Saglabs SA
MooseFS is a breakthrough concept in the Big Data storage industry. It allows us to combine data storage and data processing in a single unit using commodity hardware thereby providing an extremely high ROI. Through this innovative approach, we provide professional services and expert advisory for storage solutions as well as implementation and support for all your operations. MooseFS, which was introduced in 2008 as a spin-off of Gemius (a leading European company which measures internet in over 20 countries), went on to become one of the most sought after Data storage software for companies worldwide. It is still being used to store huge amounts of data for Gemius core operations, where over 300 000 events are gathered and processed per second, for 24 hours and 7 days a week. Therefore, any solution we present to our customers has been tested in real-life work environment involving Big Data Analytics.Starting Price: $/TiB based on scale -
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Open-E JovianVHR
Open-E
Open-E JovianVHR is a cyber-resilient, software-defined storage platform built for maximum data security and durability. It acts as a second defense layer for Hardened Repository feature from Veeam. Utilizing the ZFS file system and its native snapshots integrated with Veeam's features, it protects vital data from insider threats, accidental deletion, and sophisticated ransomware. This essential tool guarantees rapid, reliable data restoration, ensuring business continuity and peace of mind. Open-E JovianVHR also offers accelerated performance for fast backup and recovery and boasts universal hardware compatibility, providing growth potential and vendor independence. This Veeam Ready certified and affordable immutable backup infrastructure empowers IT to optimize data protection strategies and costs. -
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Scality
Scality
Scality provides file and object storage for enterprise data management deployments of all sizes. We adapt to your environment. Traditional on-prem storage? No problem. Storage for modern cloud-native applications? We’ve got you covered. Whether it’s critical healthcare or financial data, government intelligence, digitized national treasures, streaming video content or any other valued asset — Scality has a proven track record of ensuring eleven 9s data durability and long-term protection. -
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VMware vSAN
Broadcom
Reduce storage cost and complexity with VMware vSAN, an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides the easiest path to HCI and hybrid cloud. Integrated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) powered by vSAN, combined with vSphere, enables you to manage compute and storage with a single, integrated platform. Take the easiest path to future-ready HCI and hybrid cloud with an integrated solution that improves business agility, speeds operations and lowers costs. Extend virtualization to storage with a secure hyperconverged solution that leverages existing tools and is integrated with your hypervisor and leading public clouds. Achieve better price per performance by supporting the latest storage technology on industry-standard servers. -
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StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)
StarWind
StarWind VSAN has been designed with small businesses’ needs and restricted IT budgets in mind. It pulls out close to 100% of the IOPS from your existing raw storage —no crazy expensive hardware required. Licensing is flexible and transparent without any pitfalls or feature paywalls. Virtual SAN from StarWind ensures high uptime and fault tolerance starting with just two nodes. You don’t need a witness if you don’t want to have one. Your IT environment won’t skip a beat even if you lose an entire node plus one individual storage device, HDD or SSD. Scale up, down, or out when and how you need it. Operate your HCI clusters through a unified StarWind web UI. Our engineers will assist in migrating your existing workload to StarWind at no extra cost! Our solution has been specifically designed to bring enterprise-grade features to SMBs, which do not operate corporate budgets. StarWind VSAN requires no witnesses and brings all the promised benefits in a two-node scenario already. -
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Improve the way you manage, protect and store data, with unlimited access to select IBM SDS products and IBM Cloud®Object Storage. IBM Storage Software Suite provides a unified interface that streamlines data management, and cost-per-TB pricing makes it easier to plan as your capacity grows. Non-production use of the software in test environments is included. Straightforward per-TB pricing for the entire suite is related to the amount of storage capacity, not the type of storage or how it is used. There are no licensing headaches when changing from one type of storage to another or from one data type to another. All the IBM Storage Software Suite products share a consistent user interface, reducing user errors and the need for training. All the products are designed to work together, streamlining integration and worldwide support for the complete solution.
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HPE Pointnext
Hewlett Packard
This confluence put new demands on HPC storage as the input/output patterns of both workloads could not be more different. And it is happening right now. A recent study of the independent analyst firm Intersect360 found out that 63% of the HPC users today already are running machine learning programs. Hyperion Research forecasts that, at current course and speed, HPC storage spending in public sector organizations and enterprises will grow 57% faster than spending for HPC compute for the next three years. Seymour Cray once said, "Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.” When it comes to HPC and AI, anyone can build fast file storage. The trick is to build a fast, but also cost-effective and scalable file storage system. We achieve this by embedding the leading parallel file systems into parallel storage products from HPE with cost effectiveness built in. -
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IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) is a modern implementation of software-defined storage, making it easier for you to deploy fast, highly scalable storage for AI and big data. With the low latency and high performance NVMe storage technology and 8YB global file system and global data services of IBM Spectrum Scale, the ESS 3200 and ESS 5000 nodes can grow to YB configurations in a single federated global storage system from edge to core data center to the public cloud. By consolidating storage requirements and eliminating silos across multiple platforms — including Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift — IBM ESS can reduce inefficiency, lower acquisition costs, simplify storage management and support multiple demanding workloads, delivering high performance throughout your organization.
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GlusterFS
Gluster
GlusterFS is a scalable network filesystem suitable for data-intensive tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. GlusterFS is free and open source software and can utilize common off-the-shelf hardware. Gluster is a scalable, distributed file system that aggregates disk storage resources from multiple servers into a single global namespace. Enterprises can scale capacity, performance, and availability on demand, with no vendor lock-in, across on-premise, public cloud, and hybrid environments. Gluster is used in production at thousands of organisations spanning media, healthcare, government, education, web 2.0, and financial services. Scales to several petabytes, handles thousands of clients, POSIX compatible, uses commodity hardware, can use any ondisk filesystem that supports extended attributes, accessible using industry standard protocols like NFS and SMB, provides replication, quotas, geo-replication, snapshots and bitrot detection, and more. -
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Azure StorSimple
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure StorSimple meets the needs of performance- and capacity-centric applications, and gives you a complete hybrid cloud storage solution for enterprises. It’s the best of both worlds—physical arrays for deployments in datacenters and virtual arrays for smaller enterprise environments like remote and branch offices, which require network-attached storage (NAS). Its on-demand infrastructure means you don’t need to set up or maintain costly on-premises equipment for new or special projects. Also, by using local storage for performance, you have the flexibility to retain all volume data locally. Manage your data growth more effectively—StorSimple can automatically archive inactive primary data from on-premises to the cloud to create effortless capacity expansion. Remove the need for separate backup infrastructures with cloud snapshots that provide off-site data protection, and eliminate the need for remote replication of data to a secondary datacenter with cloud storage. -
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Red Hat® OpenShift® Data Foundation—previously Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage—is software-defined storage for containers. Engineered as the data and storage services platform for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation helps teams develop and deploy applications quickly and efficiently across clouds. Developers—even those with limited storage expertise—can provision storage directly from Red Hat OpenShift without switching to a separate user interface. Format data as files, blocks, or objects to support all kinds of workloads created by enterprise Kubernetes users. Our technical experts can work with you to find an approach that meets your storage needs for hybrid cloud and multicloud container deployments.
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Lightbits
Lightbits Labs
We help our customers achieve hyperscale efficiency and cost savings for their own private cloud or public cloud storage as a service offering. With our software-defined block storage solution, Lightbits, customers scale their business effortlessly, accelerate IT operations, and reduce cost – at the speed of local flash. Break the dependency between compute and storage to allocate resources independently to bring the flexibility and efficiency of the cloud on-premises. Deliver low latency and high performance while guaranteeing high availability for your distributed databases and cloud native applications such as SQL, NoSQL, and “in memory”. With the constant growth of data in the forever available data center, one of the critical challenges is that applications and services running at scale must stay stateful as they migrate around the data center in order to keep services available and efficient in the presence of constant failures. -
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Sangfor aStor
Sangfor
Sangfor aStor is a software‑defined storage solution that unifies block, file, and object storage into a single, elastically expandable resource pool using a fully symmetrical distributed architecture, enabling on‑demand allocation of high‑performance and cost‑optimized, large‑capacity tiers to suit diverse service requirements. Available as either integrated hardware‑software or standalone software, it scales from just three commodity x86 nodes and supports cloud‑scale clusters of thousands of nodes with EB‑level capacity expansion. Its multi‑node parallel processing and intelligent caching (using RDMA, SSD hot‑data cache, and layering) deliver extremely high throughput, IOPS, and small‑IO performance, boosting cache hit rates to 90% and small‑IO handling by up to 65%, while distributed metadata management ensures jitter‑free handling of billions of files. -
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StorMagic SvHCI
StorMagic
StorMagic SvHCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution that incorporates hypervisor, software-defined storage, and virtualized networking into a single software stack. With SvHCI, your organization can virtualize your entire infrastructure without the significant financial commitment required by other solutions on the market. SvHCI provides high availability with a unique cluster architecture of just 2 nodes. Data is synchronously mirrored between the two nodes, meaning an exact copy is always available on either node. If one node goes offline, the StorMagic witness maintains the cluster's health, keeping stores open, production lines moving and services running until the failed node is restored. A single StorMagic witness located anywhere in the world can service 1000 StorMagic clusters simultaneously. -
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Stratoscale
Stratoscale
Stratoscale enables IT to operate as an internal cloud service provider, so that IT can offer single-click / on-demand consumption of resources and managed open source technologies, and respond at the speed of the public cloud. Stratoscale’s multi-cloud hybrid platform delivers true infrastructure-as-a-service, ideal for DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code automation. With single-panel monitoring and scaling of all resources and services as well as automation of the entire life cycle of open source technologies, IT can now shift focus to business specific innovation, governance and compliance. APIs are the best way to consume open-source technologies. But different cloud environments offer different sets of APIs which adds a significant layer of complexity and prevents DevOps professional from maximizing their potential. Stratoscale delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),Database-as- a-Service (DBaaS).
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