Slash Database Cost.
Not Performance.
Solve your database performance issues with simplyblock. Intelligent tiering, high-performance NVMe-based storage, and cross-system disaster recovery for your IO-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads in Kubernetes and beyond. Single system for all of your storage needs.
Simplyblock is Your Intelligent Storage Orchestration Platform
High-Performance NVMe-First Architecture
Seamless Integration with Kubernetes and AWS
Intelligent Tiering for Optimal Cost and Performance
simplyblock in 75 seconds
Discover how simplyblock transforms cloud storage optimization. Learn about our intelligent NVMe-first solution that slashes costs while boosting performance. See how we simplify database management in the cloud. Unlock efficient, flexible storage today.
simplyblock in 75 seconds
Discover how simplyblock transforms cloud storage optimization. Learn about our intelligent NVMe-first solution that slashes costs while boosting performance. See how we simplify database management in the cloud. Unlock efficient, flexible storage today.
Architecture diagram
Focus on Your Innovation, simplyblock Handles Your Data
Building data-intensive applications, whether cloud-native or on-premises, requires storage that eliminates complexity and enhances performance.
Modern workloads such as databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL), message queues (Kafka), data warehouses, and file stores are typically IO-intensive and latency-sensitive. Traditional storage solutions often struggle to meet these demands, resulting in expensive and complicated operations. Simplyblock addresses these challenges head-on by intelligently orchestrating multiple storage tiers while providing a high-performance NVMe layer and enabling cross-system disaster recovery.
This comprehensive approach ensures optimal performance and protection for all your databases, systems, and applications, allowing you to focus on what matters most - your product and innovation.
Your Next Generation
Intelligent Storage Orchestrator
simplyblock is the perfect storage orchestrator for your demanding workloads
Benefit from simplyblock's advanced storage engine, designed to enable workloads with high requirements on IOPS and latency-sensitivity, while optimizing storage cost across various environments.
Optimized for heavy operation
- Copy-on-Write
- Instant Snapshots
- Near Caching
- Multipathing
- NVMe over TCP
Intelligent storage features
- Storage Virtualization
- Thin Provisioning
- Storage Overcommitment
- Volume Clones
- Compression
- Intelligent Data Tiering
Protects data like no other
- Encryption
- Storage-efficient Erasure Coding
- Fault Tolerant and Self-Healing
- Cluster Replication
- Cross-Region Disaster Recovery
Saves cost on many levels
- Intelligent Tiering
- Deduplication
- Multitenancy
- Zero Downtime Elasticity
- Multi-attach
Can we take 1 more minute?
Here are the key reasons why simplyblock is the data platform of your choice.
Intelligent Multi-Tier Storage Orchestration
Simplyblock intelligently manages data across multiple storage tiers, including high-performance NVMe disks, slower SSDs or HDDs, and object storage. This ensures optimal performance and cost-efficiency for various workloads, from high-throughput databases to large-scale data analytics.
Designed for IO-Heavy, Latency-Sensitive Workloads
Simplyblock's storage engine is highly optimized for NVMe flash storage. It provides logical volumes using the low overhead NVMe over TCP protocol and combines NVMe devices into a cluster-wide storage pool. NVMe multipathing enables parallelized access, minimizing access latency for small and large files.
Cross-System Disaster Recovery
Simplyblock offers comprehensive disaster recovery solutions for your entire data ecosystem. Protect databases, message queues, middleware, and more with near-zero RPO. Implement multi-region disaster recovery effortlessly and reduce your RTO significantly, regardless of your infrastructure.
Simplyblock Achieves 99.4% GPU Utilization Rate for AI Workloads on AWS
Chris Engelbert
Oct 02nd, 2024 | 20 min
Why would you run PostgreSQL in Kubernetes, and how?
When you need a PostgreSQL service in the cloud, there are two common ways to achieve this. The initial thought is going for one of the many hosted databases, such as Amazon RDS or Aurora, Google’s
Read blog
Michael Schmidt
Sep 19th, 2024 | 9 min
Simplyblock for AWS: Environments with many gp2 or gp3 Volumes
When operating your stateful workloads in Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, data is commonly stored on Amazon’s EBS volumes. AWS supports a set of different volume types which offer different performance r
Read blog
Michael Schmidt
Sep 10th, 2024 | 5 min
Ransomware Attack Recovery with Simplyblock
In 2023, the number of victims to Ransomware attacks more than doubled, with 2024 being off to an even stronger start. Oftentimes, together with data encryption and the ask for a ransom to be paid, da
Read blog
Simplyblock
November 12-14, 2024
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024
Simplyblock joins KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Come by our booth (T57), right next to the t-shirt pickup. Our team is looking forward to meet with you!
Read more
Simplyblock
November 5, 2024
IT.CON x CYBR360 2024
Simplyblock joins IT.CON x CYBR360 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Drop by our booth on November 5th and learn how simplyblock enables you to improve your disaster recovery and ransomware mitigation strategies. Our team is looking forward to meet with you!
Read more
Simplyblock
September 15, 2024
Simplyblock for AWS Whitepaper
Simplyblock recognized the limitations of conventional cloud storage, such as Amazon EBS®, and has introduced a groundbreaking alternative. This whitepaper presents a comprehensive overview of simplyblock’s solution, highlighting its ability to address the drawbacks of EBS while delivering enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness.
Read now
Simplyblock
October 24, 2024
PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: Do's and Don'ts
Running databases in containers has long been considered an anti-pattern. However, the Kubernetes ecosystem has evolved significantly, allowing stateful workloads, including databases, to thrive in containerized environments. With PostgreSQL continuing its rise as one of the world’s most beloved databases, it’s essential to understand the right way to run it on Kubernetes. This session will cover the key Do’s and Don’ts to ensure optimal performance and scalability.
Register now
Learn more about popular use-cases with simplyblock
NVMe caching
Say Goodbye to High Data Access-Latency Cloud Storage with Simplyblock’s Local NVMe SSD Caching
Read more
Storage over-provisioning
The True Cost of Over-Provisioning: How to Optimize Your AWS Storage
Read more
You guys should partner with NeonDB. [...], I'm sure everyone would be excited.
Shaun Thomas
Sr Software Engineer at Tembo.io
I guess if someone is on AWS already, it only makes sense to look for solutions within AWS. You can get local NVMe disk on AWS too with EC2, and using simplyblock for storage orchestration it’d be cheaper while giving you all the IOPS you need.
Rob Pankow
CEO of Simplyblock
Simplyblock is a great product with a great team.
Franck Pachot
Developer Advocate at Yugabyte
The feature list is extensive. It provides copy-on-write block storage with thin-provisioning, instant snapshots, sync/async replication, async compression, inline and cluster-wide deduplication, multipathing, encryption, and near caching..
Chris Mellor
Writer at Blocks & Files
Check Out Who Supports Us
