Major US Telco Selects Vast Data Universal Storage

VAST Data, Inc. has been selected by a major US telecommunications company to transform the speed, serviceability and economics of its Splunk environment.

The VAST all-flash storage cluster will ingest up to 1PB of log data per day while also abandoning the notion that long-retention log data should be slow to search on.

VAST’s Universal Storage platform is built from all-flash infrastructure and will enable rapid search for all of the customer’s Splunk data. By rolling their logs onto shared, network accessible storage, this customer can depopulate data from Splunk indexer servers so that upgrades can be performed faster.

The VAST Data ‘Cold.Flash’ solution introduces economic benefits for the customer, making it possible to finally afford flash storage for hot and cold data:

• Advanced support for low-cost QLC flash enables savings that are greater than the more-expensive types of enterprise flash storage commonly found in Splunk hot storage buckets 
• Low-overhead erasure codes add 2.5% system overhead at scale, which represents savings over replication-based (100% overhead) or triplication-based (200% overhead) solutions to protect Splunk log data
• Similarity-based data reduction reduces all replicated Splunk buckets down to a single instance of storage with the added benefit of being able to further compress Splunk logs and index data that has already been reduced by Splunk

Cold.flash storage architecture for Splunk clusters provides benefits over legacy DAS models for storing and searching through Splunk data, including: linear real-time search performance, the ability to scale Index servers independently of storage capacity, and CAPEX savings of up to 60% when compared to the conventional Hot+Warm+Cold DAS architectures that Splunk users have been deploying for years.

“Organizations are generating massive streams of machine data, and flash is the obvious choice for organizations whose mission is to transform this data into insight,” said Jeff Denworth, VP products and co-founder, VAST Data. “We’re proud to be the storage solution of choice for some of the world’s leading data-driven IT Operations and Security teams, including this major US telecommunications organization, enabling them to search on vast reserves of data in real-time, without needing to wrestle with any trade-offs between performance and capacity. Simply put, VAST’s 100% flash solution future-proofs any Splunk infrastructure investment.“

VAST Data Cold.Flash architecture for Splunk