From I/O bottleneck to blazing fast — in minutes.
Simplyblock delivers NVMe over TCP performance directly to your Kubernetes database workloads. Eliminate I/O bottlenecks, reduce storage costs by up to 75%, and unlock instant database cloning — all without changing your application code.
The Problem
Running stateful databases on Kubernetes introduces unique storage challenges that traditional cloud block storage was never designed to solve.
Standard cloud block storage introduces 1–5ms of latency per I/O operation. For transactional databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL, this compounds into query times that are 10x slower than necessary.
Teams routinely provision 3–4x more storage than they actually consume, just to meet peak IOPS demands. Thin provisioning and tiering are typically unavailable with plain EBS or Azure Disks.
In shared Kubernetes clusters, one heavy database workload can consume all available storage IOPS, starving other tenants and causing SLA violations with no built-in remedy.
Traditional database backups are slow, often inconsistent across multiple volumes, and consume significant I/O bandwidth — degrading production performance during every backup cycle.
The Solution
A modern NVMe-over-TCP storage layer purpose-built for cloud-native database workloads on Kubernetes.
Simplyblock routes I/O over your existing Ethernet network using the NVMe over TCP protocol — delivering dramatically lower latency than traditional cloud block storage, without requiring specialized hardware or InfiniBand fabric.
Create logical volumes sized for your maximum requirements without pre-allocating physical storage. Simplyblock automatically tiers cold data blocks to Amazon S3 or Azure Blob — you pay only for what you actually use.
Copy-on-write technology enables instant, space-efficient snapshots and clones of any database volume. Spin up a full production clone for integration testing or database branching in seconds — not hours.
Key Benefits
Simplyblock delivers the performance, reliability, and cost efficiency that Kubernetes database deployments demand at any scale.
NVMe over TCP delivers sub-millisecond latency, dramatically accelerating query throughput for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, and more.
Add storage nodes without downtime. Capacity and IOPS scale linearly as your cluster grows, with automatic rebalancing across the pool.
Define per-volume IOPS and throughput limits. Guarantee database SLAs and eliminate noisy-neighbor contention even in dense multi-tenant clusters.
Copy-on-write snapshots complete in seconds. Consistent cross-volume backups eliminate data inconsistencies across related database services.
Configurable erasure coding delivers strong data redundancy without 3x replication overhead — achieve durability with only 1.2–1.5x storage overhead.
Deploy via standard CSI driver. Full StorageClass support, dynamic provisioning, and native kubectl and Helm integration — zero custom tooling required.
Simplyblock provides Kubernetes-native block storage for NVMe-Accelerated Database Storage on Kubernetes, with predictable performance and simpler operations.
It uses a scale-out architecture and NVMe-over-TCP to deliver low-latency performance while scaling capacity and throughput as workloads grow.
Most teams begin with a phased rollout, validate workload behavior, and then migrate stateful services with minimal disruption.
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