<s>
OpenIO	B-Device
offered	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
for	O
a	O
wide	O
range	O
of	O
high-performance	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenIO	B-Device
was	O
founded	O
in	O
2015	O
by	O
Laurent	O
Denel	O
(	O
CEO	O
)	O
,	O
Jean-François	O
Smigielski	O
(	O
CTO	O
)	O
and	O
five	O
other	O
co-founders	O
;	O
it	O
leveraged	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
,	O
developed	O
since	O
2006	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
grid	B-Architecture
technology	I-Architecture
that	O
enabled	O
dynamic	O
behaviour	O
and	O
supported	O
heterogenous	O
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2017	O
OpenIO	B-Device
completed	O
a	O
$5	O
million	O
funding	O
round	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2020	O
OpenIO	B-Device
had	O
been	O
acquired	O
by	O
OVH	B-General_Concept
and	O
withdrawn	O
from	O
the	O
market	O
to	O
become	O
the	O
core	O
technology	O
of	O
OVHcloud	B-General_Concept
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
offering	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenIO	B-Device
is	O
a	O
software-defined	O
object	B-Application
store	I-Application
that	O
supports	O
S3	B-General_Concept
and	O
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
on-premises	B-General_Concept
,	O
cloud-hosted	B-Architecture
or	O
at	O
the	O
edge	B-Device
,	O
on	O
any	O
hardware	O
mix	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
been	O
designed	O
from	O
the	O
beginning	O
for	O
performance	O
and	O
cost-efficiency	O
at	O
any	O
scale	O
,	O
and	O
it	O
has	O
been	O
optimized	O
for	O
Big	B-Application
Data	I-Application
,	O
HPC	B-Architecture
and	O
AI	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenIO	B-Device
stores	O
objects	O
within	O
in	O
a	O
flat	O
structure	O
within	O
a	O
massively	O
distributed	B-Architecture
directory	O
with	O
indirections	O
,	O
which	O
allows	O
the	O
data	O
query	O
path	O
to	O
be	O
independent	O
of	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
nodes	O
and	O
the	O
performance	O
not	O
to	O
be	O
affected	O
by	O
the	O
growth	O
of	O
capacity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Servers	O
are	O
organized	O
as	O
a	O
grid	O
of	O
nodes	O
massively	O
distributed	B-Architecture
,	O
where	O
each	O
node	O
takes	O
part	O
in	O
directory	O
and	O
storage	O
services	O
,	O
which	O
ensures	O
that	O
there	O
is	O
no	B-Architecture
single	I-Architecture
point	I-Architecture
of	I-Architecture
failure	I-Architecture
and	O
that	O
new	O
nodes	O
are	O
automatically	O
discovered	O
and	O
immediately	O
available	O
without	O
the	O
need	O
to	O
rebalance	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
is	O
built	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
a	O
technology	O
that	O
ensures	O
optimal	O
data	O
placement	O
based	O
on	O
real-time	O
metrics	O
and	O
allows	O
the	O
addition	O
or	O
removal	O
of	O
storage	O
devices	O
with	O
automatic	O
performance	O
and	O
load	B-Application
impact	I-Application
optimization	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
data	O
protection	O
OpenIO	B-Device
has	O
synchronous	O
and	O
asynchronous	O
replication	B-Architecture
with	O
multiple	O
copies	O
,	O
and	O
an	O
erasure	O
coding	O
implementation	O
based	O
on	O
Reed-Solomon	B-Error_Name
that	O
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
in	O
one	O
data	O
center	O
or	O
geo-distributed	O
or	O
stretched	O
clusters	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
has	O
a	O
feature	O
that	O
catches	O
all	O
events	O
that	O
occur	O
in	O
the	O
cluster	O
and	O
can	O
pass	O
them	O
up	O
in	O
the	O
stack	O
or	O
to	O
applications	O
running	O
on	O
OpenIO	B-Device
nodes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
enables	O
event-driven	B-Application
computing	O
directly	O
into	O
the	O
storage	O
infrastructure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
code	I-Application
is	O
available	O
on	O
and	O
it	O
is	O
licensed	O
under	O
AGPL3	B-Application
for	O
server	O
code	O
and	O
LGPL3	B-Application
for	O
client	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenIO	B-Device
claimed	O
in	O
2019	O
to	O
have	O
reached	O
1.372	O
Tbps	O
write	O
speed	O
(	O
171	O
GB/s	O
)	O
on	O
a	O
cluster	O
of	O
350	O
physical	O
machines	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
benchmark	O
scenario	O
,	O
conducted	O
under	O
production	O
conditions	O
with	O
standard	O
hardware	O
(	O
commodity	O
servers	O
with	O
7200	O
rpm	O
HDDs	B-Device
)	O
,	O
consisted	O
in	O
backing	O
up	O
a	O
38	O
PB	O
Hadoop	B-Application
datalake	B-General_Concept
via	O
the	O
DistCp	O
command	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
level	O
of	O
performance	O
marked	O
,	O
according	O
to	O
analysts	O
,	O
the	O
arrival	O
of	O
a	O
new	O
generation	O
of	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
technologies	O
oriented	O
toward	O
high	O
performance	O
and	O
hyper-scalability	O
.	O
</s>
