About S2A Turn-key Storage Solutions
Harnessing 10 years of high-end storage expertise, we specify and deliver a pre-built, optimized storage solutions for your shared storage and data management requirements.
- Remove the guesswork associated with designing the right solution
- Deploy proven, reliable systems faster
Our Professional Services Team provides:
- System Consultation and Optimization Services
- System pre-installation and installation services
- Standard and Enterprise Support Services
|
Home  Products S2A Storage Solutions S2A Shared SAN
S2A Shared SAN File System Solution (SSFS)
 |
- Maintain Quality of Service for real-time data
- Serve multiple SD, HD, 2K & 4K streams
- Share data instead of replicating
|
Storage Area Network (SAN) storage enables enterprise-wide heterogeneous file sharing and automatic data management to achieve new levels of dataflow, workflow efficiency and consolidation
|
|
Large Scale Storage Challenges:
- Accommodating Storage Growth: File formats and volume sizes
- Facilitating Resource Sharing: Serving collaborative work environments
- Overcoming Limitations: Hampered by NAS and DAS storage strategies that compartmentalize information
- Implementing HSM: Cross-island, manual data migration processes
- Containing Costs: Duplicate information consumes disk capacity and budget
Solution:
To resolve these challenges, storage managers worldwide are deploying the S2A Shared SAN File System Solution. The Storage Area Network (SAN) File System Solution features high-performance S2A storage that enables real-time, sustained reads and writes through its hardware-based DirectRAID data protection engine. An ideal choice for heterogeneous environments requiring the highest levels of low-latency data streaming capability – the S2A SSFS has broad support for server platforms and operating systems to help organizations eliminate islands of storage and centralize data in a single, cost-optimized data SAN storage system. Coupled with an optional, automatic tiered data management engine, the S2A Shared SAN File System Solution reduces data management overhead and maximizes return on storage investments.
This turn-key solution provides optimized, high-speed performance and rapid deployment to deliver immediate results. S2A Shared SAN File System Solution tightly integrates:
- S2A Capacity and Performance Optimized Storage Systems
- S2A SSFS File System and Metadata Storage System
|
|
Highlights
- Real-time direct data access and quality of service
- Fault tolerant without performance penalty
- Unrivaled S2A concurrent streaming capability
- 2 x 4K concurrent streams per S2A9550
- 6 x 2K concurrent streams per S2A9550
- Scale multiple S2A9550s to increase concurrency
- Automatic HSM reduces data management overhead
- Tiered storage utilizing high-performance enterprise-class drives for priority data along with cost-effective SATA drives for secondary data within the same namespace
- Scalable for performance and capacity
- Advanced management and data protection features
|
Optimized For:
- Digital Intermediate
- Post-Production
- Broadcast and Video-on-Demand
- Media Asset Management
- Satellite Ingest
- Imaging
- Weather
- Remote Sensing
- GIS
- Broadcast and Video-on-Demand
- Media Asset Management
- Hierarchical Storage Management and Backup
- High-Performance Computing
|
Shared Storage for SAN and LAN Environments
S2A SSFS features both SAN and LAN client connectivity options. Configure storage in a multi-network configuration - ensuring that high-priority applications get real-time direct (SAN) storage performance and IP-connected (LAN) systems receive access to the global storage environment.
Reduce Cost of Information Ownership
Optimize costs by consolidating multiple storage instances into a single storage volume. S2A SSFS also provides intelligent data migration utilities to further decrease total cost of data ownership and data management resources:
- Concurrent Streaming Capability: Real-time processing in a single S2A9550 of up to six 2K, two 4K streams, or many HD streams with low latency and high Quality of Service. Increase the aggregate streaming capability by adding S2A9550 frames while reducing the amount of systems required for your streaming application as compared to alternate offerings.
- Tiered Storage: Utilizing the S2A SSFS's data migration utilities, users can deploy a mix of high-performance Fibre-Channel drives and large capacity SATA drives in a single storage environment - enabling active archiving on SATA storage to achive an optimized balance of performance and cost reduction.
- Capacity-Optimized Enterprise Grade SATA System: With SATAssure, availability, reliability and data integrity is extended on economical, large capacity SATA drives. SATAssure manages large pools of SATA drives confidently with enterprise-class data protection all with no performance or capacity penalty.
- Dynamic Storage Provisioning: Add drives on-the-fly with no downtime while utilizing the SSFS online file and directory growth utilities. Expands storage environments dynamically and on an as-needed basis to reduce early/excess capacity purchases.
- Data Deduplication: Intelligent data de-duplication software reduces capacity requirements by ensuring that only unique data is written to disk during the normal growth of a your shared storage environment.
For more information on how the DataDirect Networks SSFS can help your organization, please contact us.
|
|
