FAQ
What is the Dacentec D-rack?
The Dacentec D-rack is a turnkey cloud infrastructure solution for volume cloud deployments comprising compute, networking, caching, storage, power monitoring and infrastructure management. The solution is hypervisor agnostic and can be integrated with any cloud management software.
What makes the D-rack unique?
First, the D-rack is full featured. Very few alternatives integrate all components that the D-rack provides: compute, networking, caching, storage and power monitoring. Second, the architecture has been built with cloud applications in mind. The storage accelerator enhances the performance of the storage back-end specific for cloud applications (e.g. VDI apps are known to be harsh on traditional storage). Third, the TCO of the solution is optimized for volume cloud deployments. Examples include a self-healing software architecture, unique storage back-end with lower overhead than traditional RAID, 100% lights-out management, power monitoring for improved uptime, etc.
Is the D-rack an IaaS solution?
The D-rack is not an IaaS solution by itself. The D-rack is a cloud infrastructure solution and can be the foundation for any IaaS, StaaS, DaaS, PaaS or SaaS offering. Essentially, the D-rack manages the hardware and software components below the hypervisor layer. The D-rack management software exposes APIs that facilitate integration with the cloud management software of your choice.
What is the D-rack pricing model?
The D-rack provides cloud capacity in the form of cloud units: compute units, storage units and caching units. Based on application requirements, customers buy cloud units. Dacentec then delivers one or multiple D-racks that provide this cloud capacity. The D-rack(s) comprise(s) all SW and HW to make the solution work end-to-end. There are no hidden costs. This pricing scheme makes the solution very intuitive and easy to use for customer to make application oriented business cases.
What is the D-rack target market?
The D-rack is meant for volume cloud deployments, i.e. it is designed for those cloud applications for which scalability and cost-effectiveness is important. Examples of volume cloud solutions are cloud offerings to the residential or SMB market, or larger private cloud deployments. The D-rack is architected in such a way that its feature set matches the technical needs of volume cloud solutions while its total-cost-of-ownership matches the business needs of volume cloud solutions.