From Grau Data, XtreemStore HSM and Parallel Data Mover

Grau Data AG presents the product family of the software solution XtreemStore.

XtreemStore HSM (XS HSM),, is a high-end storage management software for HSM, archiving and backup and XtreemStore Parallel Data Mover (XS PDM), which is designed to maximize the copy performance between Lustre and NAS storage technologies, XtreemStore HSM and object store-based storage solutions (future offering).

“XS is a high-end product suite which has to be addressed directly to IT managers for high-end applications. With our experiences at the Supercomputing Conferences in Germany and the knowledge of the American market, we know that we are placed right at the Supercomputing Conference in New Orleans,” commented Herbert Grau, CEO, Grau Data.

XS HSM
XS HSM was developed on the basis of the ArchiveManager with an integrated parallel file system that supports file systems such as Lustre and the Fraunhofer Global FileSystem, now called BeeGFS. The integrated ArchiveManger with its client server architecture has a software design which can manage massively scalable archives with billions of files and petabytes of data. High-end customers currently use up to ten clients on dedicated machines to enable a highly parallel data stream into the archive. XS supports systems with more than 100 clients without problems. Customers with less performance requirements can use the ArchiveManager on standard file systems with NTFS (Windows) or ext (Linux). The Posix interface allows any application to access a storage system which can scale both in capacity and performance.

XSM PDM
XSM PDM to addresses the need to integrate existing 3rd party storage solutions (e.g. NAS storage, object stores (future), tiered storage archival platforms) with  filesystems such as Lustre. XS PDM maximizes the copy  between Lustre and these backend storage solutions via the use of parallel data movers to provide virtually ‘unlimited’ performance for large number of small files in addition to extremely large files. XS PDM is targeted to 3rd party storage providers who want to connect their storage with Lustre.