Shutterstock Deploys Petabyte of Coraid Storage

Coraid Inc. announced that Shutterstock Images LLC, a large subscription-based stock photo agencies, has deployed
over a petabyte of Coraid EtherDrive SAN storage.

Shutterstock’s web architecture is based on an open-source
scale-out file system. The company manages millions of photo and video objects
and has more than 1PB of Coraid storage deployed across three sites. This
amount of data presents severe challenges to traditional storage platform
providers in terms of bandwidth capability, storage scalability, and data
availability.

"We utilize Coraid’s
storage platform as the foundation of our distributed storage system,"
said Chris Fischer, director of web operations and IT at Shutterstock. "We needed a solution that could provide us
with massive capacity, performance and favorable cost, while maintaining great
interoperability with our open-source infrastructure. After surveying the
market and comparing other technologies like iSCSI, Fibre Channel and FCoE,
only Coraid’s Ethernet SAN products met our needs for performance, capacity,
scalability and budget. It’s a very innovative and unique product."

Shutterstock needed a solution that could serve data in a physically
distributed manner with performance at PB scale. Using a scale-out architecture, commodity hardware and standard Ethernet, Coraid
EtherDrive solutions provide Shutterstock with flexible, performance storage,
while eliminating the complexity of traditional SAN solutions.

"Coraid’s Ethernet SAN and scale-out
architecture are uniquely positioned to deliver the simplicity of direct
attached storage with the benefits of shared storage, and provide the
architecture needed for virtualization and cloud-computing environments,"
said John Gilmartin, Coraid VP of marketing. "This approach enables a single elastic tier of storage to support a
wide variety of shifting workloads."