Hammer | Data centre and cloud optimised storage

Why datacentres & cloud providers use
specialist optimised storage products

Modern datacentres and cloud platforms operate at massive scale, supporting millions of users, applications and workloads. To deliver consistent performance, resilience and efficiency, they depend on specialist, optimised storage solutions engineered for high‑demand environments.

These purpose‑built systems ensure data is fast, secure, always available and cost‑effective - even under extreme load.

Datacentres and cloud providers face challenges that general‑purpose storage cannot solve

Specialist storage products are designed to meet these demands with precision

Explosive data growth

High-density virtualisation and containerisation

AI, analytics and real-time workloads

Strict uptime and SLA requirements

Multi-tenant security and isolation

Key reasons datacentres and cloud customers choose optimised storage

Built for performance at enterprise scale

High Performance at Scale
Ultra‑low latency for mission‑critical workloads
High throughput for AI, HPC, and analytics
Optimised I/O paths to prevent bottlenecks
NVMe, RDMA, and GPU‑direct support for next‑gen compute

Massive scalability

Petabyte‑to‑exabyte scale architectures
Seamless horizontal expansion without downtime
Elastic capacity for cloud‑native environments
Multi‑cluster federation for global deployments

Multi‑tenant security and isolation

Strong workload isolation for shared environments
End‑to‑end encryption
Immutable snapshots to protect against ransomware
Zero‑trust access controls

Optimised cost efficiency

Intelligent tiering across NVMe, SSD, HDD, and object storage
Advanced deduplication and compression
Energy‑efficient hardware reduces datacentre power usage
Lower TCO through automation and density optimization

Reliability and enterprise‑grade resilience

Self‑healing architectures
High‑availability clustering
Synchronous and asynchronous replication 99.999%+ uptime designs

Cloud‑native integration

Kubernetes‑ready storage classes
API‑driven automation
Support for hybrid and multi‑cloud workflows
Object, block and file services for diverse workloads

Where specialist storage makes the biggest impact

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Public & private cloud platforms

Multi‑tenant workloads
Elastic compute environments
High‑density virtualisation

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AI, ML & HPC environments

• GPU‑accelerated workloads

• High‑bandwidth data pipelines

• Real‑time inference

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Enterprise
datacentres

• Mission‑critical databases

• VDI and container platforms

• Backup and disaster recovery

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Service
providers

• Storage‑as‑a‑Service offerings

• High‑performance hosting

• Global distributed applications

"Specialist optimised storage products give datacentres and cloud providers the performance, resilience and efficiency required to operate at global scale. As workloads become more data‑intensive and latency‑sensitive, these purpose‑built solutions form the backbone of modern digital infrastructure."

- Jason Daly, Commercial Manager EDSS

Data centre and cloud optimised storage

Hybrid-ready architectures tuned for modern workloads

Why datacentres & cloud providers use
specialist optimised storage products

Datacentres and cloud providers face challenges that general‑purpose storage cannot solve

Specialist storage products are designed to meet these demands with precision

Key reasons datacentres and cloud customers choose optimised storage