Storage
From Archive storage to Flash Scale Premium. Choose the storage service (S3, Block, or NFS) and the performance options to suit your requirements.
Deploy all the storage types you need from the drag-and-drop interface and attach your volumes to your instances according to their requirements. Share data between instances using our network storage service, and store large data workloads by connecting your applications to our S3 Storage.
Store objects using a write-once, read-many (WORM) model. Set your compliance policies by making data immutable and protected against ransomware.
Storage types
Our storage system, based on NetApp technology and delivered through Aire’s 100G network ring, is specifically designed for hosting virtual machines. This persistent network storage ensures high availability and fault tolerance, keeping your data always protected and accessible.
Features:
Resilience and Security:
This advanced storage system ensures that your virtual machines run efficiently and securely, giving you peace of mind knowing that your data is always protected and available.
Aire Cloud’s network storage service is specifically designed to simplify the deployment and management of network storage in your virtualization environment. If you are looking for an efficient solution to provision storage with NFS as a service, you can use it easily.
It allows you to create and manage network storage (NAS) shares that can be accessed by multiple instances or applications—whether you need to share files between virtual machines, provide centralized storage for applications, or enable collaboration.
Use cases:
Sharing files between virtual machine instances:
Shared data storage for applications:
Development and testing environments:
Configuration files and templates:
Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage system that provides scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Customers of all sizes and industries can use S3 to store and protect any amount of data for a wide range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archiving, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.
SOAX offers an S3 storage service based on CEPH technology and allows integration with third-party software for hosting large amounts of data such as files and backups.
This type of storage is designed for data that is accessed frequently. The architecture of this storage tier is based on a double copy of the object/bucket, stored on two different HDD units, using a buffer + cache with NVMe disks reserved for data with intensive read/write access, thus delivering maximum performance for these workloads.
This service is intended for data that is accessed infrequently but still needs to be quickly available when required. This type of storage uses duplication and compression techniques to achieve an optimal balance between performance and cost efficiency.
The data protection technique used in this storage tier is erasure coding, which consists of splitting the object into smaller chunks and storing them across different disks, nodes, and racks. These chunks include parity data capable of reconstructing any missing piece in case of loss. It is the perfect storage solution for long-term backups.
Storage types for Block and Network
| Volume type | Performance | Description |
|---|---|---|
Flash ScalePremium |
25 IOPS/GB up to 15,000 IOPS per volume. | Designed for high data-volume workloads that require a high number of IOPS. This storage enables high performance for applications such as Machine Learning, AI, Big Data, or databases. |
Flash Premium |
Up to 6,000 IOPS | High-performance storage. Thanks to its high, fixed IOPS, you can deploy applications such as databases or write-intensive workloads. |
Flash Plus |
Up to 3,000 IOPS. | The perfect balance between price and performance. With Flash Plus storage, you can deploy the bulk of your general-purpose applications. |
Flash Basic |
Up to 1,000 IOPS. | Standard storage for applications that do not require high IOPS performance, at a very affordable price. |
Archive |
250 IOPS not guaranteed. | HDD storage for high capacity. Store your data economically. |
Storage features
Perform full/incremental backups of your VMs with a single click to a cost-effective S3 repository.
Take free snapshots from our interface to protect yourself against crashes or problems in your environment.
Instantly clone data to grow or replicate your volumes.
Easily grow your volume as your application grows.
Import/export your images.
Volumes can be linked and unlinked on the fly. It is also possible to use a volume to transfer data from one instance to another, within the same location, almost instantly.
These two cloud storage service-based solutions use different storage systems and are used for different purposes.
The block storage solution divides data into uniform-sized volumes and places them in blocks arbitrarily. On the other hand, the object storage solution breaks down data into smaller independent units, called objects, and associates them with metadata. Therefore, uses vary depending on the storage method.
Block storage is mainly used for applications that require fast access and high performance, such as relational databases, file systems, or virtual machines. In contrast, object storage solutions, which offer simpler management, are more suitable for large-scale storage of unstructured data (images, audio, videos), content distribution, and online backups.
The suitability of each of these solutions will depend on how we want to use our cloud storage service, the type of application, the level of user knowledge, and the required functionalities.
Storage in the cloud sector has evolved into scalable, pay-per-use storage with high capacity and durability. To achieve this, companies no longer maintain traditional storage cabinets or systems that are difficult to maintain and scale, opting instead for services of this type. Most software that requires high storage volumes already has S3 standard integration, making it a valid type of cloud storage for storing your data, whether it be content, backups or processing.
All standard backup software on the market integrates with S3 Standard storage. This allows you to purchase pay-per-use storage in the cloud and offer your customers a scalable model with known, pass-through costs. Manage only the backup service for your customer and forget about managing the physical infrastructure itself.
Applications focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and High Performance Computing (HPC) require large-capacity storage that is always accessible to work with these models. With this storage, you can work on your models in the cloud and store this massive amount of data in the cloud.
With our Cold Cloud Storage, you can store your infrequently accessed data at fully predictable costs without waiting or long recovery times in the event of a disaster.
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CTO
Joan sees technology as a lever to enable everyone to access knowledge and facilitate real-time communication between people. Since he started working at Grupo Aire, when he was in the last year of university, he has strived to overcome the technical challenges he has faced, with the desire to learn and get to the bottom of each project. As CTO, he applies this experience, his vision, drive and attention to detail to different areas of work. He says the main highlights in the projects he works on are their technological vocation and the team, for their human quality and problem-solving approach.
CHR & Integration Officer
For Manuel Rivera, technology and people are intimately connected, and he sees them as drivers of change. His passion for telecommunications led him to study Engineering in this field. His professional career has spanned roles in engineering, commercial operations, and Human Resources, where he has focused on transforming technological organizational structures both in the local market and across Europe. He joins Grupo Aire as Director of Human Resources and Transformation, bringing his vision and experience to tackle the numerous challenges organizations face in today’s world.
CFO
Her work in different positions in technology companies has led her to always be surrounded by engineers and to breathe that techie atmosphere on a daily basis. This experience in the sector, together with her knowledge and vision of the strategic financial function, is what Rosa brings to Grupo Aire. As well as best practices and support to the shareholders and management team for decision making. All of this with the aim of leading the company towards the goals proposed in the business plan.
Aire stands out for its capacity for innovation and development; the high volume of proprietary solutions and how deeply rooted the project is in the sector.
CIO
Despite growing up in a small town with limited access to technology, it was no obstacle for Zigor to immerse himself in the technology sector from a very young age, and later commencing a degree in Computer Engineering with the intention of continuing to deepen everything he had been learning in a self-taught way over the years.
His dream of dedicating himself to the world of connectivity became a reality when he joined the company, where he made the project his own from the get go, and sharing in its successes and learning from its failures.
With a great sense of teamwork, Zigor works daily to help in the decision-making process by contributing his vision and experience, and by taking on all the challenges he may encounter along the way and maintaining the company’s DNA in which technology, teamwork and innovation are essential.
General Manager
Santi Magazù has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT services sector, having held management positions in multinationals such as Telefónica, where he held various positions, such as IT services engineering director for Spain and commercial director of Cloud Computing for the entire Group. He has also worked as Marketing Director at the regional operator Grapes, and as CEO and COO in technology startups, including PlayGiga, the first company acquired by Facebook in Spain. He began his career as a strategy consultant at Monitor Co, currently part of Deloitte.
He holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from INSEAD (France).
In Aire he is General Manager.
Adviser
Curiosity and passion for technology are the driving force behind a professional career that began at no less than the age of 4, fixing a broken cable of an iron that had stopped working. From that precocious impulse, Miguel Tecles’ biography is marked by multicolored wires, programming lines, radio waves, Internet signals when they hardly existed, numerous high voltage circuits and the occasional unexpected electric shock.
Today, holding the position of Chief Technology Officer at Aire Networks, Miguel Tecles is one of its fundamental pillars.
No one better than him personifies the company’s commitment to its customers: to always take technology to the next level, doing what no one else does, in a pioneering way and going where no one else goes, as well as providing services that generate value for all.
President
Passionate about technology and the inner workings of everything around him from an early age, Raúl began his first steps in the world of electronics and programming at the age of 14, when he made his first invoicing, accounting and warehouse management programme for the family business.
With this and the arrival of the Internet, he entered the world of telecommunications, studying Computer Engineering, where he met his first business partner, Miguel Tecles, through what was then one of the first social networks, IRC. After more than two years working together and improving their know-how, they met Emilio Gras, the third business partner in the current company, where they started their first ServiHosting project in 1996, thereby embarking on a journey that would take them to where they are today.
Raúl is a fundamental pillar in Aire, not only through his experience, but also through the values he brings and implements in the company, such as his future visions, accepting challenges and achieving goals. In addition, his commitment to the most minute details and the team spirit he brings makes the company tick.
CEO
With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors, Javier firmly believes that technology must solve real problems and generate competitive advantages with tangible results for the business.
He has held relevant executive positions in companies such as Amena and Orange, where he led strategic planning, marketing and go-to-market areas. He was CEO of PlayGiga, the first Spanish technology startup acquired by Meta (Facebook). Before joining Grupo Aire as CEO, he led Grupo AIA, a company specialising in artificial intelligence, with a focus on advanced analytics and predictive algorithms.
He has also been an advisor and consultant in multiple technology companies backed by venture capital and private equity funds, in sectors such as cloud, cybersecurity and blockchain.
Previously, he developed his career in the field of strategic consulting as a Principal at Monitor Company, where he advised large corporations on growth, internationalisation and operational efficiency.
