A U.S. patent of wide-ranging applicability has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to Peaxy, Inc., and Francesco Lacapra, inventor and Peaxy VP of Engineering and CTO, for the underlying technology of the Peaxy® Aureum™.

The patented architecture enables significant flexibility for feature expansion into a broad set of business solutions related to data management, data access and software-defined storage. It scales indefinitely, runs on commodity hardware and provides enterprise class customers with the ability to expand the system without incurring downtime or costly tuning cycles.

The first embodiment of this technology, Peaxy Aureum, aggregates industry-standard servers (even heterogeneous ones) into a single namespace built out of high-availability mini-clusters, called “hyperservers,” as components of a distributed file system capable of being dynamically expanded to provide a scalable facility that provides data management and a true scale-out software-defined architecture.

Peaxy launched version 1.1 of the Aureum, addressing the need for hyperscale data management, to a limited group of charter customers in May 2014 and is on track to launch version 2.0 for general release in September.