Oil, gas and offshore energy
Installations with no IT staff, a link too narrow to send the data ashore, and records that outlive the field itself.
Engineered in Sweden
The sovereign standard for European data infrastructure.
AiRE unifies block and file storage on one platform, protects it with immutable snapshots and per-data-set encryption, and keeps the same hardware in service for seven to ten years — not three.
- Unified block and file
- NIS2-ready controls
- 7–10 year hardware lifecycle
- EU data residency
20 PiB
Usable capacity in a single datacentre cabinet
STORViX published specification
7–10 years
Hardware lifecycle, against a typical three-year refresh
STORViX published specification
10×
Faster nightly backups at WE2U after replacing legacy storage
STORViX customer story — WE2U
Sub-ms
Maximum latency achieved for Eteria's all-flash workload
STORViX customer story — Eteria
Working with
- Sony
- Oracle
- NVIDIA
- AWS
- Yubico
- Ideon
The platform
Unified data sovereignty, resilient and built for Europe.
AiRE is a proprietary software stack on a storage-optimised UNIX operating system, running on the AiRE Unified Data Platform appliance or as a virtual instance.
Traditional arrays fix their parameters at configuration time. Changing them later means wiping the system or buying another one. AiRE instead creates an unlimited number of data sets across pools inside the same unit, each with its own encryption, compression, deduplication, redundancy and block size.
That is why one platform can carry a latency-sensitive virtualisation workload and a long-term archive at the same time, without either compromising the other.
What a data set carries
- Workload profile
- Performance, resilience or optimisation
- Encryption
- Applied per data set, not per appliance
- Data reduction
- In-line deduplication (SHA256) and compression (LZ4 or GZIP9)
- Protection
- RAID-Z or mirror topology
- Integrity
- End-to-end checksums to the root node, with self-repair
- Recovery
- Copy-on-write immutable snapshots and instant clones
Why STORViX
Four things that change the economics.
Each of these is a design decision with a cost consequence, not a feature list.
Infinite scalability
No forklift upgrades. Capacity and performance grow by adding disk expansion units to a running system, with block and file served from one unified interface.
- Upgradable with zero downtime
- True unified block and file storage
- Modular, adaptive architecture
- Single unified user interface
Ransomware-resistant by design
Copy-on-write snapshots are immutable once taken. Encryption is applied per data set rather than per appliance, and anomalies surface as they happen.
- Immutable snapshots with instant recovery
- Individual encryption per data set
- End-to-end data integrity with self-repair
- Two-factor authentication
Materially lower TCO
Up to 20 PiB in a single rack, in-line deduplication and compression, and a hardware lifecycle measured in years rather than refresh cycles.
- 20 PiB in a single datacentre cabinet
- Hardware lifecycle of 7 to 10 years
- In-line deduplication and compression
- Resource optimisation per data set
AI-driven automation
CloudSight analyses telemetry in the cloud; AutoPILOT acts on it. Profiles and policies keep data sets optimised as workloads change, without an administrator in the loop.
- Self-healing algorithms
- Intelligent provisioning
- Predictive capacity analysis
- Centralised fleet management
Deployment
Four ways to run AiRE. One operational model.
The commercial model changes. The platform, the policies and the fleet management do not.
Own your AiRE unit
Buy the appliance outright. The data never leaves premises you control, and the hardware stays in service for seven to ten years.
Storage as a Service
AiRE hardware and software delivered as a service from European data centre partners. Capacity when you need it, without operating the infrastructure.
Cloud
Move and access data across public and private clouds while keeping one operational model and one set of data policies.
Edge
Enterprise-grade storage in constrained locations, managed centrally alongside the rest of the fleet.
Solutions
Built for the workloads that actually cost you money.
Profiles and policies tune the platform per data set, so one system covers workloads that would otherwise need three.
AI and data-intensive workloads
Feed pipelines and GPUs from all-flash tiers without paying all-flash prices for cold data.
Hybrid cloud modernisation
One platform and one policy model spanning on-premises, cloud and edge.
Business-critical applications
Low-latency block storage for virtualisation and databases, with per-workload profiles.
Backup, archive and retention
Immutable snapshots on site, geographically separated copies in Vault.
Compliance-driven storage
Per-data-set encryption, retention and audit-friendly controls for regulated estates.
Industries
Sectors where storage decisions carry consequences.
Seven sectors whose constraints differ enough to be worth answering separately. The platform underneath them is the same.
Media and broadcast
Footage, projects and masters spread across storage islands, each one sized, backed up and migrated on its own schedule.
Telecom and edge-to-cloud
Edge sites and a core that drifted apart — different policies, different failure behaviour, and no single view of any of it.
Defence and security
Sovereignty assessed on the whole stack rather than the data centre postcode, in a market whose owners are mostly outside Europe.
Healthcare
Imaging archives that grow without pause, patient data that cannot leak, and budgets that cannot absorb a three-year refresh.
Government and public sector
Data sovereignty, decade-long procurement horizons and continuity obligations that outlast any single supplier relationship.
Financial institutions
Demonstrable controls, tested recovery, and an audit trail a supervisor will accept.
Evidence
What changed for customers who moved.
Software development and managed IT services · Italy
Alma Pro
90% storage reduction and 65% time saved.
How Alma Pro reduced its storage utilisation by 90 percent and saved 65% of operating time with the agility of AiRE IntelligentFiler.
- Storage used for the database copies behind testing and simulation cut by more than 90%
- IT time spent operating the system down 65% compared with traditional archiving and backup
- Five services on three workloads across two systems consolidated into one AiRE, with ransomware and virus protection by default
Source: STORViX customer story
Cooperative credit banking · Italy
Banca d'Alba
Strategic resilience: Banca d'Alba's email compliance evolution with STORViX and Archivium.
The GDPR puts strict requirements on how corporations store personal information. For a financial institution such as Banca d'Alba, compliance is not just a legal duty but a responsibility to maintain trust among clients and stakeholders. To address GDPR compliance and email management, the bank partnered with STORViX and Archivium.
- Corporate email archived in line with GDPR, with automatic deletion as the Italian Data Protection Authority recommends
- Communications from former associates preserved long term, as the Data Protection Authority requires
- Among the first Italian banks to address email management systematically under current regulations
Source: STORViX customer story
Food and beverage manufacturing · Italy
Birra Castello
Fast-track solutions for data integrity and availability.
How Birra Castello used its new AiRE IntelligentFiler right out of the box and vastly improved on its Veeam setup, with guaranteed full file system consistency.
- Up and running within a few hours of delivery, used by the IT team right out of the box
- Full source-and-target file system consistency for Veeam backup images, through AiRE's corruption immunity
- A secure off-site copy for disaster recovery through Alma Pro's managed replication
Source: STORViX customer story
Cloud services and managed security · Italy
Eteria
Ultra-fast cloud storage solution with 50% cost savings.
How Eteria ensured hot copies of its customer VMs were available 24/7 and achieved a sub-millisecond maximum latency, with the flexibility, agility and performance of AiRE and the FlexiPay programme.
- Sub-millisecond maximum latency achieved for a key customer on the all-flash 3282
- Hot copies of customer VMs available 24/7 through the Zerto integration
- Compression factor of 2 with maximum compression enabled, and at least 50% saved on the investment
Source: STORViX customer story
Higher education and research · Belgium
Ghent University
Agile storage: from terabytes to petabytes in seconds.
The Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at Ghent University needed to archive simulation data that must outlast the research, on storage its scientists could grow themselves.
- Scales from a few terabytes to petabytes in seconds, with no RAID rebuild to wait for
- Researchers provision file systems themselves, without IT expertise
- Up and running with no manual, no training and no support call
Source: STORViX customer story
Health, safety and environment consulting · Italy
Made Hse
Leveraging a unified data solution across its lifecycle.
How Made Hse achieved performance gains of more than 50% and simpler GDPR compliance with a unified data lifecycle powered by AiRE.
- Performance gain of more than 50% for VMs and CRM systems, from AiRE's AI-driven optimisation
- Compression factor of 3 to 4 on database storage, shrinking the data footprint by more than 3× without deduplication
- GDPR compliance, data retention and data classification made simpler by managing the whole data lifecycle
Source: STORViX customer story
IT management consulting · Germany
Noventum Consulting
From minutes to seconds for Noventum Consulting.
How AiRE improved Noventum's virtual machine failover from minutes to seconds and made provisioning a piece of cake.
- Virtual machine moves between Hyper-V servers cut from minutes to seconds
- Multi-tenant storage provisioned accurately without the time cost, through full multi-tenancy and elastic provisioning
- Configured for full production use in under an hour after a six-month trial
Source: STORViX customer story
Scientific research and museums · Belgium
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Secure VMs and faster backups with a 15-minute RPO.
How the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) secured all its IT services by integrating AiRE with Proxmox, and turned a slow backup situation around by bringing its recovery point objective down to 15 minutes.
- Recovery point objective brought down to 15 minutes
- Every IT server runs as a Proxmox virtual machine on AiRE, keeping the institute's services secure and available
- A third AiRE system ordered after the first year to add archiving capacity
Source: STORViX customer story
IT and telecom services · Sweden
WE2U
Nightly backups ten times faster, on a VMware cluster that could finally grow.
A Swedish IT and telecom services provider replaced ageing legacy storage with an AiRE 3122 as primary storage for a new VMware cluster.
- Nightly backups 10× faster than the previous legacy solution
- 3× compression factor, cutting capacity utilisation
- Up to 60% lower monthly cost
Source: STORViX customer story
Managed services and private cloud · Sweden
Xpeedio
Xpeedio optimises mixed workloads with AiRE's flexibility.
A seamless migration from a legacy unit to a next-generation unified data platform, AiRE.
- Mixed workloads optimised automatically, data set by data set, with custom profiles and policies
- Less time on administrative tasks, so the team focuses on value-added work
- Always-on self-healing and point-in-time snapshots protecting a GDPR-compliant private cloud
Source: STORViX customer story
“Superior robustness and high flexibility. After having used the STORViX storage solution for 7 years, we can testify to not having had a single software failure that would have compromised our operational systems in any impactful way.”
Comparison hub
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Partners
Sell and deliver AiRE across EMEA.
Registered deals are protected, partner pricing is visible in the portal, and enablement material is available without asking. STORViX works through distributors and solution partners across the region.
Channel and distribution
- EMT Distribution
- Maxcom
- ProXima Distribution
- Nextron
- Lutech SpA
- Assyrus
- Naquadria
- TWP
- Binero
- Archivium
- Boston / SourceCode
- ELKO Group
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See AiRE against your actual workload.
A demo runs against the profile you care about — virtualisation, archive, or an AI pipeline — not a generic benchmark. Bring your capacity plan and your compliance constraints.