Keep accelerators fed and utilization high with NVMe-first storage that runs on your own bare metal, with no appliance lock-in.
Neoclouds compete on GPU utilization: every idle accelerator is wasted money, and feeding GPUs fast enough is fundamentally a storage problem. Simplyblock is the software-defined, NVMe-first storage layer that runs on your own bare metal, with per-tenant QoS for multi-tenant platforms and full sovereign self-hosting. The result is cost-efficient, high-utilization infrastructure without the cost or lock-in of a proprietary appliance.
The Neocloud Storage Gap
GPU clouds live or die on utilization, and storage is usually the bottleneck that leaves accelerators idle. The wrong storage choice quietly erodes margins, isolation, and sovereignty all at once.
When the storage layer cannot feed data fast enough, expensive accelerators stall between batches. Idle GPU time is the single largest source of wasted spend in a neocloud, and it is a throughput and latency problem at the storage layer.
High-end storage appliances carry steep capital cost and tie operators to proprietary hardware and licensing. That margin pressure works directly against the cost-efficiency that makes a neocloud competitive.
Renting GPUs to many customers on shared infrastructure means one tenant's I/O burst can starve another. Without per-tenant quality of service, noisy neighbors degrade utilization and break service guarantees.
Sovereign datacenters and regulated AI customers require data to stay in-region under operator control. Storage that depends on an external control plane or a foreign vendor cannot satisfy those requirements.
How simplyblock Addresses It
Software-defined, multi-tenant block storage that keeps accelerators fed and runs on the neocloud's own bare metal, without the cost or lock-in of a proprietary appliance.
Simplyblock is built on NVMe over Fabrics with an SPDK-based data path, delivering sub-millisecond latency and high IOPS so accelerators stay busy instead of waiting on I/O. It speaks both NVMe/TCP and NVMe/RoCE, so operators can match the transport to their fabric without re-architecting the network.
Simplyblock runs as software on commodity NVMe servers, so there is no proprietary appliance to buy and no hardware lock-in. Erasure coding delivers roughly 80% usable capacity, and tiering moves colder data to cheaper media, improving the storage economics that drive neocloud margins.
For neoclouds expanding into MSP and shared multi-tenant offerings, simplyblock enforces per-tenant quality of service so one customer cannot starve another. Snapshots and clones speed up provisioning, and the cluster scales out linearly through a Kubernetes-native CSI driver as the GPU fleet grows.
What Neocloud Operators Gain
Storage that lifts utilization, lowers cost, and keeps control in the operator's hands, without forcing a trade-off between performance, multi-tenancy, and sovereignty.
NVMe-first throughput keeps accelerators fed so they spend more time computing and less time waiting on I/O, turning the storage layer into a driver of utilization rather than a bottleneck.
Running on commodity NVMe with erasure coding and tiering removes the capital cost and licensing of a proprietary appliance, protecting the margins that keep a neocloud competitive.
Per-tenant QoS isolates customers on shared infrastructure, so a single tenant's I/O burst cannot degrade utilization or service for everyone else on the platform.
Simplyblock runs entirely on the operator's own bare metal with no external control plane, so data stays in-region and under operator control for sovereign datacenters and regulated AI workloads.
Add nodes and the cluster scales out linearly, so storage capacity and performance grow in step with the GPU fleet without re-architecting the platform.
A Kubernetes-native CSI driver and automated operations make simplyblock straightforward to run at scale, ready for the agentic and AI-driven workloads neoclouds are built to serve.
GPUs only earn their cost while they are computing. If the storage layer cannot deliver data fast enough, accelerators stall between batches and utilization drops. NVMe-first storage with sub-millisecond latency and high IOPS keeps GPUs fed, which is why storage throughput is one of the biggest levers on neocloud economics.
High-end, appliance-based storage platforms are common incumbent suppliers to neoclouds. Simplyblock is a software-defined, NVMe-first block storage layer that runs on the operator's own commodity bare metal. The difference is cost efficiency, sovereign self-hosting, and no appliance or hardware lock-in, while still delivering the low-latency throughput GPU clouds need.
Yes. Simplyblock is software that runs on commodity NVMe servers you already operate. There is no proprietary appliance to purchase, and erasure coding plus tiering improve the usable capacity and economics of the hardware you have.
Yes. Simplyblock enforces per-tenant quality of service so one customer's I/O burst cannot starve another, which is essential for neoclouds expanding into MSP and multi-tenant offerings. Snapshots and clones also make per-tenant provisioning fast.
Yes. Simplyblock runs entirely on the operator's own bare metal with no external control plane and no call-home requirement, so data stays in-region under operator control. That makes it a fit for sovereign datacenters and regulated AI workloads with data residency requirements.
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