New Zealand Cloud Services Provider Revera Deploys HGST Active Archive System

Western Digital Corporation announced that Revera Ltd, New Zealand cloud services provider, has installed the HGST Active Archive System as its cloud-scale data repository for Revera Vault.

Geared for deployments of all sizes – from terabytes to zettabytes, Vault relies on the HGST Active Archive System for its object store capability, capacity scaling, and data durability to optimize data accessibility and BC.

By leveraging the Active Archive System, Revera Vault offers a distributed storage environment in excess of 14PB. This geo-dispersed architecture provides customers effortless access to their data, consistent performance, and maximum data durability. Vault customers can ingest data in Auckland and immediately retrieve it from Wellington, even in the event of a complete data center loss.

HGST provides a range of products that includes HDD drives, enterprise SSDs, and external storage solutions and services that store, preserve and manage valued data.

“Vault changes accepted models of enterprise data management – a model typified by disk-to-disk replication with tape completing the trifecta. But tape is fast becoming the dinosaur of storage media as cloud services deliver unlimited scale and flexible object-based storage systems,” said Robin Cockayne, CEO, Revera. “The HGST Active Archive System with object storage is key to delivering best-in-class services to our customers’ ballooning data requirements.“

Active Archive System is an integrated, Amazon S3-compliant, scale-out object storage solution delivering 4.7PB of raw storage in a single rack. Leveraging HelioSeal helium-filled disk drive technology and end-to-end optimization of system software and hardware, the system provides the industry’s best capacity, density and TCO with support for geo-dispersed replication, data-at-rest encryption (DARE), as well as distributed erasure coding for cloud-scale data durability and reliability-all key selection criteria for Revera.

“Revera’s reliance on the HGST Active Archive System as the cloud storage backend for Revera Vault spotlights its transformative benefits for cloud data centers where data availability, resiliency and durability at exabyte-scale is essential,” said Dave Tang, SVP and GM, Western Digital. “Our systems enable cloud service providers to offer their customers breakthrough value and service levels to provide a competitive advantage in today’s data-centric world.“