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The Need for Extreme Storage

Online video games...Digital post production...HD broadcasting...Multi-dimensional design, simulation and modeling...Social networking and online content sharing...Complex massive-scale research...Movie downloads...Cloud Computing...Petaflop computer systems...Massive online archives...extremely high-speed backup and restore.

These applications didn't exist ten, or even five, years ago and now represent a fundamental shift in the kind of data that is created, stored, and distributed. In fact, today unstructured data comprises 85% of total storage capacity in sharp contrast to transactional data that previously dominated most organizations. Powering this new digital world requires storage designed to deliver extremes of performance, scalability, density, and economy. Extreme Storage can handle very large files in real-time, stay ahead of unpredictable growth to support millions of users, store billions of pictures, videos, and songs and serve them up with sub-millisecond response times, stream massive HD content without ever dropping a frame, hold petabytes of research data in a small footprint, and feed data to supercomputers at over 100 Gigabytes per second with consistent throughput.

Extreme Storage by DDN

Traditional storage architectures which are designed and optimized for IOPS-centric database-driven applications fall short in these extreme environments. DDN's purpose-built S2A is a recognized, [link to analyst reports should also have reports listed on the right side of the page] revolutionary storage architecture that provides the data infrastructure backbone for today's most successful content-intensive organizations and their extreme storage environments.

Award-winning innovation at DDN enables breakthroughs in performance, data integrity, density and power, including:

Performance

  • Highly parallel access to and from disks
  • Reads and writes performed at the same industry-leading speed
  • ZERO Degraded Mode to always deliver performance at full speed

Data Integrity

  • On-the-fly error correction
  • The double protection of RAID 6

Density

  • Industry leading volumetric efficiency: 75TB/square foot
  • Up to 4.5X better than competitors

Power Efficiency

  • D-MAID, highly granular variable disk power down solution
  • The fewest systems required for performance & capacity

S2A Technology Enables New Possibilities

Overcoming traditional storage roadblocks, DDN's Extreme Storage unleashes new capabilities to scale, deliver information and more powerfully serve your customers while reducing systems, floor space, power, and administration. S2A is the storage platform of choice where the reality of budget constraints and limited resources no longer conflict with your ability to meet challenging SLAs, QoS metrics, and capacity growth. Over 400 broadcasters and post-production facilities worldwide as well as 48 of the top 100 supercomputers in the world are already gaining the benefits of the S2A Extreme Storage platform, including:

  • Web content companies such as Shutterfly and Slide now economically serve billions of files to billions of users; AOL now backs up and restores data several times faster than before
  • Entertainment companies such as MTV, XBOX LIVE, Pacific Title, Warner Bros., Technicolor and CCTV now flawlessly archive, edit and broadcast music, games, movie blockbusters and the Olympic games in Extreme HD
  • Commercial HPC, Supercomputing and University environments such as Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge and UCLA now can map the human genome, provide online access to vast library collections and accelerate bleeding-edge scientific research
  • Energy companies such as Total and Saudi Aramco now perform 4D modeling to locate new energy sources more rapidly and efficiently
  • Government agencies such as NASA, NOAA, DOD and others now capture satellite image data to facilitate space travel, weather forecasting and national security

Bottom Line: DataDirect Networks is the Only Company with Storage Designed for:

Extremes of:

  • Performance
  • Volumetric Efficiency
  • Power Efficiency
  • Throughput
  • Availability
  • Scalability
  • Capacity
  • Connectivity
  • Data Integrity

We Have Scaled Out Our Systems in Every Single Dimension, Ensuring Clients Are Prepared for Unpredictability.

Extreme Storage for Extreme Environments: Predictable Storage for an Unpredictable World.