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Product · Red Sled · Hot Tier · Primary

High-performance disk storage.

What it is

S3-compatible on-premise storage. Enterprise-grade, locally built.

Rack-scale platform built on RED Data sled and run on COTS. 180 TiB per sled, assembled in Cape Town.

Specifications
180 TiB per sled - assembled in Cape Town
1 PiB redundant per subrack class
25 Gb/s networking
Ceph & erasure-coding ready
AMD Ryzen + 64 GB ECC per sled
The Software

Ceph-powered. Open-source. Deployable anywhere.

RED runs on a Ceph software stack with a full management UI, deployable on your existing Commercial Off-The-Shelf hardware or on the Tsolo rack-scale RED Data Sled.

No proprietary lock-in. No licensing fees. Full S3-compatible object storage with multi-tenant access controls and a single-pane management interface.

Why Tsolo Red
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Locally Engineered.
Cost Optimised.

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Locally assembled

Sled and subrack assembly in Cape Town. Supply chain ownership, local support.

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Rand-denominated

Priced in Rand. Cost-effective, no import markups.

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No egress fees

Your data in your jurisdiction. No egress charges. No single vendor lock-in.

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Open stack

Ceph-based, no proprietary software. Open & interoperable with your existing tools.

Who it's for

Storage reliant businesses with large-scale data requirements.

Tsolo RED is for organisations that require local high throughput storage without uncontrolled egress costs. Banks, insurers, telcos, healthcare, legal, and universities.

If you're running data science workloads, building a private data lake, or looking to repatriate cloud storage at scale, RED is your primary tier.

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Countries Deployed
1 PiB
Proven at scale with
SA enterprise
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Local IP, local assembly,
local support

Talk to our engineers about your storage workload and budget.

We'll size the right configuration and show you the cost comparison.

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Think fast. Think RED

RED is a Ceph-powered, multi-tenant object storage stack, ready to deploy in any facility. Compatible with existing Commercial Off-The-Shelf hardware, or available on the Tsolo rack-scale RED Data Sled at 180 TiB per sled, assembled in Cape Town.

Talk to us about Archive Storage or AI Compute.

Tape / S3 Archive
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S3-compatible cold storage on tape economics. Modern archive at a fraction of disk-based costs, with zero application changes required.

AI Compute
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Immersion-cooled AI compute and storage in one unit. Consumer-class GPUs at sustained peak, purpose-built for RAG and AI workloads.