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- Resolve capacity and performance scaling
- Deliver real-time performance
- Safely use SATA drives for critical applications
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Innovative Storage Solutions for Performance and Capacity Scaling
For over 10 years, DataDirect Networks has been delivering many of the highest-performing, most-scalable storage systems in the world. Our S2A technology represents a fundamentally different approach to enterprise storage technology, architected from the ground up for demanding throughput and capacity requirements found in today's applications.
From providing storage to the world’s largest supercomputer to solving Global 2000 organizations’ backup challenges and the numerous environments that exist in between, DataDirect Networks' S2A technology helps solve critical data storage problems, improves storage network performance, and reduces administration overhead.
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 Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A)
S2A Storage Systems are powered by an intelligent storage appliance that simplifies and accelerates the storage network through the integration of key functions previously found in multiple network elements and software components. The S2A appliance incorporates network switching, storage virtualization, data protection algorithms, caching, and disk-level management into a single high performance unit. This approach vastly simplifies the storage infrastructure, lowers the total cost of ownership and improves performance and reliability
Unlike traditional storage systems based on architectures for handling many small files, the S2A appliance has been specifically designed to process and store large data files that place unique demands on the storage network for bandwidth and capacity.
Our architecture is open and can interoperate with virtually any file system, host operating system and storage application, allowing our customers to choose best-of-breed hardware and software solutions for their unique storage environment and application requirements.
The newest storage system, the 8th generation S2A9900 is engineered to enable high-performance, high-capacity network storage. Delivering up to 6 GB/s to high-performance applications and scaling to 1.2PB in a single storage system, the S2A9900 provides optimal block-level and file system quality of performance for highly scalable, open-system computing environments.
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DirectOS
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The core foundation of the S2A Appliances is the DirectOS operating system, which handles the many complex storage management functions within the S2A system.
• Storage Virtualization
• Data Protection
• Quality of Service
• Multi-tier Disk Drive Management
• System Tuning
• Power Saving S2A SleepMode
DirectOS functions are described in greater detail below . . .
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DirectRaid's intelligent algorithms, leverage the system’s architecture to completely streamline and parallelize the data path. This results in high-speed, real-time data transfers and on-the-fly parity calculations.
S2A hardware-accelerated DirectRAID technology enables overall storage consolidation while reducing system costs… scaling storage performance beyond traditional limits.
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SATAssure enables the S2A to manage very large pools of SATA storage while maintaining enterprise-class performance, reliability and data integrity. SATAssure validates the integrity of data on every read operation to protect against corruption that is left unchecked by SATA drives. When such corruption is detected, SATAssure is self -healing and repairs the data on-the-fly so that the host computers receive the correct information, and then repairs the faulty data on the drive.
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The S2A appliance contains multiple host ports and natively allows full access to the storage pool from any of them. When restricted access is desired, S2A Storage Virtualization allows the common data pool to be divided, and provides multiple levels of security and access control to each portion of the storage pool.
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Technology
