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2025

As part of the hyperconverged infrastructure solution

Companies MIND Software Orion soft and October 28, 2025 on the launch of a joint solution combining virtualizations zVirt the MIND uStor (SDS, Software-Defined Storage) platform and software-defined storage system. The solution will provide the ability to build a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure), in which virtualization and software storage system run on the same servers and are managed as a single software platform. Подробнее #.2A_.D0.92_.D1.81.D0.BE.D1.81.D1.82.D0.B0.D0.B2.D0.B5_.D1.80.D0.B5.D1.88.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.B8.D1.8F_.D0.B4.D0.BB.D1.8F_.D0.BF.D0.BE.D1.81.D1.82.D1.80.D0.BE.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.B8.D1.8F_.D0.B3.D0.B8.D0.BF.D0.B5.D1.80.D0.BA.D0.BE.D0.BD.D0.B2.D0.B5.D1.80.D0.B3.D0.B5.D0.BD.D1.82.D0.BD.D0.BE.D0.B9_.D0.B8.D0.BD.D1.84.D1.80.D0.B0.D1.81.D1.82.D1.80.D1.83.D0.BA.D1.82.D1.83.D1.80.D1.8B здесь.

RuBackup Compatibility

MIND Software and RuBackup announced the start of a technology partnership on October 21, 2025.

Integration software-defined distributed MIND uStor storage system and system backup RuBackup will provide a scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure that can flexibly adapt to data growth and business requirements. The joint solution ensures reliable storage of backups, speeds up recovery processes, and minimizes the risk of information loss in the event of failures.

RuBackup and MIND uStore compatibility creates a complex for reliable, fast and convenient backup. It provides scalable and sustainable storage of backups, increases fault tolerance of the infrastructure and guarantees continuous access to data, "said Andrei Kuznetsov, CEO of RuBackup.

Partnership with RuBackup is an important step in the development of the MIND Software ecosystem of solutions. Combining the competencies of our teams, we offer customers a tool for building a modern, flexible and secure storage infrastructure based entirely on Russian technologies, "said Anton Gruzdev, CEO of MIND Software.

As part of an HCI solution to accelerate digital business transformation

MIND Software and Basis announced the launch of the first fully integrated HCI solution in Russia. It is based on the Basis Dynamix Standard dynamic infrastructure management platform, which is built into the MIND uStor distributed software-defined storage system. Read more here.

In Russia, created a "killer" DSS Nutanix

Russian manufacturer of infrastructure and system SOFTWARE Software announced on May 20, 2025 the launch of its Software-Defined Storage (SDS) system called uStor. The product is already being tested by large customers, and by the end of 2025 the company expects to receive up to several dozen customers.

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Фото: MIND Software

MIND uStor is infrastructure software that allows you to build fault-tolerant, scalable and productive data storage based on x86 servers running Linux, including domestic distributions. In fact, this is an analogue of Nutanix and VMware Virtual SAN, which allows you to create a distributed storage system for virtualization and containerization platforms.

If we analyze Russian SDS solutions, then among them there are a number of companies that deal only with this topic: Raidix with the Raidix5 solution, Baum with the Swarm AI solution, - summed up for TAdviser the current state of the Russian SDS products market Anton Gruzdev, CEO of MIND Software. - These solutions of colleagues in the workshop can be considered competing directly with the proviso that they still do not fully belong to the class of scale-out SDS. There are also companies that do not make SDS as a separate universal product, but have some kind of software DSS as part of a comprehensive platform solution, for example, a virtualization platform or an IaaS cloud.

Anton Gruzdev included offers from cloud.ru, VK tech, Basis, Orion soft, Aerodisk vAir, Cyberprotect (Cyber ​ ​ Infrastructure), SharxDC, Rosplatforma with the R-Storage solution and others among such products. However, these solutions are closed within their ecosystem.

At the same time, uStor is also called unique by its developers because it does not have a clearly dedicated controller that controls the rest of the storage. All nodes are equivalent and self-allocate roles in the system.

Raidix is a software implementation of the traditional DSS architecture, that is, a modular system with several controllers and vertical scaling, "said Sergey Skryl, head of the MIND uStor product, TAdviser. - Our product is a classic SDS, architecturally distinguished by the principle of horizontal scaling. In MIND uStor, all nodes are equal and participate in I/O processes. Management services are additionally located on part of the nodes.

Separately, the developers note that the distributed architecture, lack of dependence on specialized equipment and minimal resource consumption allows MIND uStor to demonstrate high performance and resource utilization in hyperconverged scenarios.

In uStor 1.1, which has already been released, support for block storage devices for the Linux operating system is implemented as a block device driver. In addition, there is support for various options for solid-state drives (NVMe, SATA/SAS SSD) and classic (HDD) drives, as well as iSCSI technology. The version received a graphical interface that is designed to simplify DSS management. It also has support for the SNMP network management protocol.

And in the summer, MIND Software plans to release version 1.2, in which support for OpenStack technology will already be available and hyperconverged solutions will be prepared together with partners. A universal client and client connection management will also be developed for the upcoming version.

In the fall, the developers planned the release of version 1.3, in which they expect to implement integration with partners with a containerization platform based on, Kubernetes as well as offer customers the technology of network connection of drives via Ethernet, Fibre Channel or InfiniBand (NVMe-over-Fibre).

By winter, in version 1.4, the developers plan to make a file storage, which can be connected via SMB and NFS protocols with support for pNFS and NFS-over-RDMA. As a result, universal storage should be obtained, which will allow you to implement support for both block devices and the file system hierarchy.

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Фото: MIND Software

MIND uStor has a simple architecture and minimal resource requirements, - said Sergey Skryl at the product presentation. - DSS are scalable to any task, easily configured, and supported at the 24/7 enterprise level. It is a solution for storing virtual machines, container data, as well as for building hyperconverged landscapes. Our storage system supports both proprietary communication protocols and industry-accepted standards, such as iSCSI, works well in mixed infrastructures and can be used as an alternative or in addition to traditional DSS.

According to the company's engineers, the presented solution based on uStor is intended for organizations that widely use various cloud platforms and virtualization technologies in their infrastructure. The potential to optimize cost of ownership with an SDS solution can range from 30% to 60% compared to traditional DSS by using standard components and fine-tuning the equipment.

MIND Software licenses its products by the amount of "raw" capacity, and the developer offers various licensing options for MIND uStor software both for continuous use and in subscription mode. There are options for supplying Standard and Enterprise (with support for HDD drives), as well as a set of professional services to help customers in design and implementation.

Although the company expects to work directly with large customers, it expects to build a wide partner network. In particular, three types of partners are considered: developers of their own software and hardware complexes, system integrators and cloud providers of IaaS solutions.