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DDN Introducing Enterprise Scale-Out Parallel File System Appliance

GS7K from 4U with 60 drives, 396 with expansion chassis

For enterprise analytics, data-intensive rich media and technical computing customers who require a cost-effective turnkey appliance to help solve their big data challenges, DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) introduces the GS7K appliance, a scale-out parallel file system solution complete with enterprise features, NAS access and cloud tiering capabilities.

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Unlike traditional scale-out NAS systems that face scaling limitations when it comes to meeting performance and capacity requirements, or Parallel File Systems that are massively scalable but lack critical enterprise data management features which make them costly and complex to install and use, the GS7K includes the performance of a Parallel File System with integrated enterprise data management and protection capabilities, in an all-in-one, scale-out appliance.

Designed for data-intensive industries including life sciences, oil and gas, financial services, manufacturing, and media and entertainment, the GS7K leverages the power of DDN’s Storage Fusion Architecture(SFA) with the embedded performance and scalability benefits of GPFS to enable customers to jumpstart their first big data projects with an optimally sized and priced enterprise appliance.

With the GS7K, customers benefit from the range of DDN’s high end appliance capabilities, as well as an optimal blend of SSD cache, HDD capacity, parallel file system performance, and ability to extend to tape or the cloud – all in a single cost-effective, easy to deploy appliance.

Enterprise Features for Scalability, Performance and Density, with Cloud and NAS Extensions
Allowing users to start small and then scale their footprint as their data needs grow, the GS7K base appliance starts with 60 drives in 4U and capacity that can be expanded non-disruptively by adding up to four additional 4U 84 drive enclosures. Multiple GS7K systems can then be aggregated to hit 100s of GB/s of performance and petabytes of capacity to minimize overall TCO.
 
Built on the third generation of DDN embedded technology and leveraging more than a decade of experience supporting the largest HPC storage systems, the GS7K is engineered for performance and can deliver ~11GB/s per 8U, making the appliance a powerful and scalable appliance in small size.

Offering customers peace of mind with data protection and management at multiple levels, the GS7K also provides a feature set of enterprise capabilities including snapshots and rollback, quotas, replication, cloud connectivity and data tiering. Multi-level data protection capabilities like battery-backed cache, flexible RAID, integrated backup and DirectProtect with no single point of failure makes the GS7K a reliable storage appliance.

By automating migration between SSD and SAS, tiers, object-based private cloud and tape under one global namespace, the GS7K offers the ability to manage data throughout its lifecycle from a single point of control. With built-in policy-based cloud tiering capabilities, users can tier, migrate and archive GS7K file data to DDN WOS to free up space and improve performance. Federation of GS7K namespaces also provides multi-site ingest, distribution and collaboration capabilities for multiple GS7K Clusters.

Additionally, the GS7K leverages DDN’s Storage Fusion Xcelerator(SFX) and SSD technologies to combine the scalability and affordability of low-cost rotating media with the performance of flash to enable big data customers to maximize performance at low TCO.

The GS7K will be available for volume shipments in January 2015.

Michael Vildibill, VP product management, DDN, said: “In recent years, the scaling limitations of traditional storage methods have proven ineffective in addressing the throughput demand of customers’ growing big data environments. In looking at high I/O alternatives, while they like the idea of parallel file systems, customers don’t want to trade off complexity, cost and risk to get there. DDN’s GS7K offers the best of both worlds, including massive performance and scalability in a scale-out parallel file system that also offers the simplicity and rich feature set enterprise customers are used to in an all-in-one appliance. For customers looking to jumpstart their big data projects, the GS7K provides organizations a cost-effective storage solution to meet their needs today, and as their data continues to grow, offers a sustainable model for massively scaling out data stores in the future.”

Addison Snell, CEO, Intersect360 Research, said: “HPC is critical in commercial markets, spanning a wide range of applications across multiple industries, and this trend is only growing. The GS7K from DDN will help bring the latest high-performance storage technologies to more of these markets, connecting companies to their next innovations faster while satisfying their enterprise standards.”

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