Cloud Storage

Evolve your I.T. with a Centralized Cloud Environment

As Wikibon analysts have indicated, the needs of the cloud storage space differ radically from conventional enterprise block-based storage environments. Specifically, rich data puts very high bandwidth and throughput imperatives on I/O subsystems. The conventional solution to meet the needs of this market is to spread reads and writes over multiple systems of servers and disk arrays. However, for many companies and a growing number of media and Web 2.0 applications, this approach does not come close to meeting the extremely demanding user service level requirements. The key point is that these different data patterns require fundamentally different types of data storage architectures. The types of storage architectures that DDN has been successfully delivering for years, in the form of S2A.

According to Merrill Lynch, the economics of Cloud Computing are very compelling, with cost advantages up to 10x over existing IT environments. With our unique software and core hardware platforms we enable clients to run multiple applications simultaneously in parallel--which is ideal for Cloud Computing environments, whereas other vendors force clients to run applications sequentially, costing more time, more money, and more management personnel.

As Merrill Lynch stated, "Hardware vendors with technologies that enable building very large scalable systems with an efficient power profile and highly dense configurations will benefit the most in an external cloud environment." As the provider of the most scalable, power efficient data infrastructure platforms that exhibit the highest levels of volumetric efficiency (density) in the industry, with the ability to store up to 2.4PB in two racks, DDN can help you build an economical Cloud Storage foundation.

DDN Cloud Storage environments are specifically typified by the following requirements:

  • Petabyte Versus Terabyte Scale
  • On-the-Fly Data Integrity to Support Continuous Content Streams
  • Highly Effective Use of Very Low Cost High-Density Disk
  • Millions Versus Thousands of Users (Slide, XBOX LIVE)
  • Super High Bandwidth where Controller Cache is ineffective

If you are looking to deploy a Cloud Storage environment, ask yourself:

Can your existing providers match these capabilities?

  • 6GB/s of sustained throughput per single storage system.
  • How many systems do they need?
  • 2.4PB of capacity per single system.
  • How many systems do they need?
  • 1.2PB of capacity per single rack.
  • How many racks do they need?
  • Extremes of power efficiency.
  • How much energy will they waste?
  • ZERO Degraded Mode.
  • How often will their performance degrade in write mode?
  • Single system for all Tiers 2~n.

Can they do that?

Only DDN can, with S2A today. Get Extreme Storage and start running your large computing tasks on a centralized Cloud infrastructure.