Wire-speed fabric transfer
Our fully meshed storage area network (SAN) backbone moves data at hardware wire speed, shrinking your backup windows significantly.
Built on NetApp StorageGRID
One sovereign platform. Every stage of your data.
The Hexion platform described on this page runs Hexion Shield and Hexion Vault. Hexion Instant and Velocity run on a separate performance platform.
Hexion combines StorageGRID intelligence with distributed E-Series storage nodes in South Africa, giving organisations one managed object platform from active storage through protection and archive.
Hexion Platform
Full storage lifecycle control
S3 access
Security & protection
Monitoring & insight
Policy automation
Lifecycle control
Multi-tenancy
Local residency
Immutable retention
Compliance & audit
Distributed resilience
Four independent locations. One governed grid.
StorageGRID treats sites and storage pools as one managed environment. Information lifecycle policies determine where object data is placed and how it is protected.
Teraco JB1 (Isando)
Carrier-neutral facility
E-SERIES NODE
E-SERIES NODE
E-SERIES NODE
Africa Data Centres JHB1 (Midrand)
Carrier-neutral facility
E-SERIES NODE
E-SERIES NODE
E-SERIES NODE
OADC Parklands (Johannesburg)
Carrier-neutral facility
STORAGE NODE
STORAGE NODE
STORAGE NODE
Private fabric between all four sites. Information lifecycle policies place active and protected copies across the locations you choose — replication runs inside the Hexion grid, not on your servers.
Cloud tiering remains a policy choice. Lifecycle rules can move selected object data to compatible cloud storage while Hexion keeps the operating model clear.
The fabric layer
An architecture designed for zero-friction storage offloading.
Traditional cloud architectures force your application or backup software to manage the complex, high-latency overhead of multi-site replication. Hexion changes that at the fabric layer.
By interconnecting our footprints across South Africa’s leading data centres — Teraco JB1 (Isando), Africa Data Centres JHB1 (Midrand), NTT Johannesburg 1 (Samrand) and OADC Parklands — via a private, dedicated dark-fibre mesh, replication happens entirely downstream from your software.
The technical architecture advantage
Control plane isolation
By managing data distribution natively at the NetApp StorageGRID layer, your data blocks are protected even if your backup server's orchestrator experiences a logical failure or database corruption.
Hardware-level block protection
Independent storage clusters across distinct geo-diverse environments guarantee that data rot protection, healing and absolute redundancy are enforced by the platform — automatically.
Intelligent lifecycle management
Put policy behind every object.
Define how data enters, where it stays, how it is protected, and when it transitions or expires. Policies work in the background as the estate changes.
- 01
Ingest
Bring data in through S3
- 02
Active
Keep current data ready
- 03
Protect
Replicate by policy
- 04
Transition
Move to the right tier
- 05
Archive
Retain colder data
- 06
Expire
Remove when policy allows
Customer value
Control without adding storage silos.
The platform brings placement, protection, access and visibility into one operating layer.
Scale without silos
Manage large object estates through a single distributed namespace.
Protection by policy
Place replicated or erasure-coded copies according to workload needs.
Location-aware control
Direct data placement across sites and storage pools through lifecycle rules.
Immutable when required
Support protected retention with S3 Object Lock and controlled access.
Dense, efficient storage
E-Series nodes combine capacity density with redundant storage controllers.
Secure S3 access
Separate tenants, buckets and access credentials while keeping operations visible.
One clear interface
See the grid. Manage the tenant.
Hexion Storage Manager provides a practical view of buckets, capacity and tenant access, backed by StorageGRID administration and distributed infrastructure.
- Monitor capacity and usage
- Manage S3 buckets and access
- Operate through one Hexion service
Hexion Storage Manager
Tenant dashboard
