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DataDirect Networks Ushers In a New Era of Scale, Speed and Data Insight for Webscale and Big Data Applications
DDN Introduces WOS 3.0 Software and WOS7000 Object Storage Appliance Which Deliver Trillion-File Scalability, Unprecedented Performance, High-Speed Parallel Metadata Search and Cloud-Based Collaboration for Multi-Site DDN GRIDScaler File Systems
LONDON, Sept. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGAOM STRUCTURE:EUROPE 2013 (Booth located in Level 2 Foyer)
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130223/MM65263LOGO)
News Facts
-- DataDirect Networks (DDN) is enabling organizations dealing with
web-scale and Big Data challenges to make huge strides towards storing,
accessing, searching and managing any amount of data at any scale with
the newest release of the company's distributed object-based storage
technology, Web Object Scaler (WOS®) 3.0 and new WOS7000 object storage
appliance.
-- WOS technology extends DDN's leadership in deploying storage for the
world's most demanding applications with an object storage software and
hardware stack designed to deliver rapid on-premise cloud storage,
self-service access to data and accelerated time to insight.
-- With WOS technology, customers now have an alternative to expensive
"pay-as-you-go" public cloud storage services[i], as using DDN's
linearly-scalable, global storage platform can slash total cost of data
storage by more than 50 percent.
-- In contrast to conventional file storage technologies, WOS storage can
support and manage more files than any other storage system, shattering
scalability limitations by enabling the federation of WOS clusters of up
to 983 petabytes and 32 trillion unique objects.
-- Without the burden of file system bottlenecks, federated WOS technology
can deliver more than 200x performance increases over the current peak
performance of even the largest public cloud storage services. This
includes object retrieval of 256 million objects per second, throughput
of over 10 terabytes per second with object retrieval latency of less
than 50 milliseconds.
-- WOS 3.0 represents the culmination of more than five years of investment
into scalability breakthroughs to support the largest cloud and
data-intensive computing applications and lays the foundation for DDN's
continuing advancements in at-scale, next-generation data protection,
resiliency and management.
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Speed Intelligent Decision-Making, Collaboration and Time-to-Insight from Big Data
-- WOS 3.0 supports parallel search of user-defined metadata across a
distributed WOS cloud of as many as 8,000 WOS cluster nodes. Now, users
can immediately index and contextualize petabytes of data in
milliseconds versus days, transforming data into information so they can
make rapid, intelligent business decisions.
-- A fundamental shift in the storage paradigm is at work as WOS technology
now integrates with DDN's GRIDScaler parallel file storage system,
powered by DDN's high performance Storage Fusion Architecture® (SFA)
storage array technology to tier data from file-based workflows into a
simple, scalable WOS archive. This gives users object storage and file
storage on a single scale-out platform, where data can be archived for
disaster recovery or worked on via a "follow the sun" model, maximizing
data protection, organizational productivity and speeding
time-to-insight.
Scalability and Performance without Complexity
-- A combination of software integrated into high-efficiency, high-density
WOS7000 storage appliance hardware, WOS technology can be managed from a
single interface to reduce administrative complexity and drive down the
total cost of ownership (TCO).
-- Unlike conventional file storage solutions, WOS multi-cluster
configuration enables WOS to scale to any dimension as each cluster can
support up to 1 trillion objects across 256 WOS object storage servers.
A cluster of 32 federated WOS clusters can be architected into a single
storage environment capable of servicing over 32 trillion unique object
IDs without slowing performance or adding complexity to the environment.
-- Major performance enhancements are achieved through the architectural
design of WOS technology which eschews conventional file system
protocols and bottlenecks and aggregates petabytes of data, while
intelligently protecting data either with erasure coding and
synchronous/asynchronous replication or a hybrid combination of the two.
-- A full implementation of the object storage driver eliminates the need
for local file systems and enables the object storage cluster to write
native objects directly and contiguously to disk, which eliminates
fragmentation, increases performance utilization by up to 10x versus
Linux file system-based solutions[ii], and ensures 99 percent disk
capacity utilization.
Improving Long-Term Data Storage TCO
-- Preconfigured for rapid deployment, the WOS7000 appliance powered by WOS
3.0 software comes fully assembled and ready to run production workloads
with minimal configuration, removing the guesswork and risk from
deploying cloud storage, reducing management overhead, and providing
rapid time to value from storage investments.
-- A next-generation object storage technology, the WOS solution is highly
versatile, efficient and robust, and offers up to 33 percent more data
center capacity versus previous WOS offerings. With over 2.5PB of
capacity in a single data center rack, the latest version provides
additional savings by minimizing the costs to power, cool and manage the
system.
Availability
-- WOS 3.0 and WOS7000 appliance are scheduled for general availability in
September 2013.
Supporting Quotes
-- Jean-Luc Chatelain, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Technology,
DDN --(http://www.ddn.com/blog)"Organizations everywhere continue to grapple
with ever increasing volumes of data, creating business and
infrastructure complexity, and importantly, missed opportunity.
Traditional storage methods exacerbate issues of data growth by
bottlenecking access to large volumes of data and limiting them within
the context of single storage paradigms. For businesses seeking to
extract value from their Big Data, our latest version of WOS object
storage technology conquers issues of speed and scale to provide rapid
time to insight, helping our customers grow their businesses and take
advantage of the new era of cloud computing."
-- Amita Potnis, Senior Research Analyst, IDC"Unstructured data is growing
exponentially and organizations are struggling to retain this data while
ensuring long-term rapid accessibility. As a result, businesses are
experiencing capacity, performance and scalability issues with
traditional NAS solutions. With its latest Web Object Scaler product,
DDN is enabling businesses to manage this exponential data growth, by
extending its performance and scalability expertise to a new set of
cloud tools, and arming customers with archiving, collaboration and DR
capabilities."
-- Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, ESG"DDN is one of the companies
pioneering the next frontier of object storage and making the case for
its adoption. Its WOS 3 product is designed to help users deal with the
problem of scalability and exponential growth of unstructured data,
while also offering the opportunity to harness the value of that data
with integrated search, collaboration and DR capabilities. With this
latest release, DDN is building on its history of supporting the most
data-intensive applications and forging the next frontier of Big Data
and HPC management."
Supporting Resources
-- WOS 3 Brochure
-- WOS Access Datasheet
-- WOS Cloud Datasheet
-- Whitepaper: Object storage - Architecting for Performance and
Availability, Robin Harris, Storage Mojo
-- University College London Deploys DDN WOS for First Phase of 100PB Cloud
Infrastructure build out
-- Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter
DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a leader in data center infrastructure for Big Data and Cloud Storage applications. Our data storage and processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the highest levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN enables enterprises to extract value and deliver results from their information. Our customers include the world's leading online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, financial services, media production, and security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide, DDN's solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in the world's most scalable data centers to ensure competitive business advantage for today's information powered enterprise. For more information, go to http://www.ddn.com or call +1-800-TERABYTE (837-2298).
DDN, WOS, Storage Fusion Architecture, SFA12K, DirectMon and hScaler are trademarks owned by DataDirect Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
[i] According to DDN benchmarking, users can expect to see their costs slashed by up to half of the costs associated with "pay-as-you-go" models such as Amazon S3 object storage service, when dealing with data volumes at scale.
[ii] Performance utilization increases were seen when comparing WOS technology with the Linux file system-based solution, OpenStack Swift.
DDN Media Contact:
Dani Kenison
Sr. Director, Global Corporate Communications
Email: dkenison@ddn.com
Work: 408-990-2658
SOURCE DataDirect Networks
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Web Site: http://www.ddn.com
DataDirect Networks Ushers In a New Era of Scale, Speed and Data Insight for Webscale and Big Data Applications
DDN Introduces WOS 3.0 Software and WOS7000 Object Storage Appliance Which Deliver Trillion-File Scalability, Unprecedented Performance, High-Speed Parallel Metadata Search and Cloud-Based Collaboration for Multi-Site DDN GRIDScaler File Systems
LONDON, Sept. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGAOM STRUCTURE:EUROPE 2013 (Booth located in Level 2 Foyer)
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130223/MM65263LOGO)
News Facts
-- DataDirect Networks (DDN) is enabling organizations dealing with
web-scale and Big Data challenges to make huge strides towards storing,
accessing, searching and managing any amount of data at any scale with
the newest release of the company's distributed object-based storage
technology, Web Object Scaler (WOS®) 3.0 and new WOS7000 object storage
appliance.
-- WOS technology extends DDN's leadership in deploying storage for the
world's most demanding applications with an object storage software and
hardware stack designed to deliver rapid on-premise cloud storage,
self-service access to data and accelerated time to insight.
-- With WOS technology, customers now have an alternative to expensive
"pay-as-you-go" public cloud storage services[i], as using DDN's
linearly-scalable, global storage platform can slash total cost of data
storage by more than 50 percent.
-- In contrast to conventional file storage technologies, WOS storage can
support and manage more files than any other storage system, shattering
scalability limitations by enabling the federation of WOS clusters of up
to 983 petabytes and 32 trillion unique objects.
-- Without the burden of file system bottlenecks, federated WOS technology
can deliver more than 200x performance increases over the current peak
performance of even the largest public cloud storage services. This
includes object retrieval of 256 million objects per second, throughput
of over 10 terabytes per second with object retrieval latency of less
than 50 milliseconds.
-- WOS 3.0 represents the culmination of more than five years of investment
into scalability breakthroughs to support the largest cloud and
data-intensive computing applications and lays the foundation for DDN's
continuing advancements in at-scale, next-generation data protection,
resiliency and management.
Tweet This: .@ddn_limitless object storage ushers in new era ofspeed, scale and insight for webscale and #BigData apps http://bit.ly/16dKL7c
Speed Intelligent Decision-Making, Collaboration and Time-to-Insight from Big Data
-- WOS 3.0 supports parallel search of user-defined metadata across a
distributed WOS cloud of as many as 8,000 WOS cluster nodes. Now, users
can immediately index and contextualize petabytes of data in
milliseconds versus days, transforming data into information so they can
make rapid, intelligent business decisions.
-- A fundamental shift in the storage paradigm is at work as WOS technology
now integrates with DDN's GRIDScaler parallel file storage system,
powered by DDN's high performance Storage Fusion Architecture® (SFA)
storage array technology to tier data from file-based workflows into a
simple, scalable WOS archive. This gives users object storage and file
storage on a single scale-out platform, where data can be archived for
disaster recovery or worked on via a "follow the sun" model, maximizing
data protection, organizational productivity and speeding
time-to-insight.
Scalability and Performance without Complexity
-- A combination of software integrated into high-efficiency, high-density
WOS7000 storage appliance hardware, WOS technology can be managed from a
single interface to reduce administrative complexity and drive down the
total cost of ownership (TCO).
-- Unlike conventional file storage solutions, WOS multi-cluster
configuration enables WOS to scale to any dimension as each cluster can
support up to 1 trillion objects across 256 WOS object storage servers.
A cluster of 32 federated WOS clusters can be architected into a single
storage environment capable of servicing over 32 trillion unique object
IDs without slowing performance or adding complexity to the environment.
-- Major performance enhancements are achieved through the architectural
design of WOS technology which eschews conventional file system
protocols and bottlenecks and aggregates petabytes of data, while
intelligently protecting data either with erasure coding and
synchronous/asynchronous replication or a hybrid combination of the two.
-- A full implementation of the object storage driver eliminates the need
for local file systems and enables the object storage cluster to write
native objects directly and contiguously to disk, which eliminates
fragmentation, increases performance utilization by up to 10x versus
Linux file system-based solutions[ii], and ensures 99 percent disk
capacity utilization.
Improving Long-Term Data Storage TCO
-- Preconfigured for rapid deployment, the WOS7000 appliance powered by WOS
3.0 software comes fully assembled and ready to run production workloads
with minimal configuration, removing the guesswork and risk from
deploying cloud storage, reducing management overhead, and providing
rapid time to value from storage investments.
-- A next-generation object storage technology, the WOS solution is highly
versatile, efficient and robust, and offers up to 33 percent more data
center capacity versus previous WOS offerings. With over 2.5PB of
capacity in a single data center rack, the latest version provides
additional savings by minimizing the costs to power, cool and manage the
system.
Availability
-- WOS 3.0 and WOS7000 appliance are scheduled for general availability in
September 2013.
Supporting Quotes
-- Jean-Luc Chatelain, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Technology,
DDN --(http://www.ddn.com/blog)"Organizations everywhere continue to grapple
with ever increasing volumes of data, creating business and
infrastructure complexity, and importantly, missed opportunity.
Traditional storage methods exacerbate issues of data growth by
bottlenecking access to large volumes of data and limiting them within
the context of single storage paradigms. For businesses seeking to
extract value from their Big Data, our latest version of WOS object
storage technology conquers issues of speed and scale to provide rapid
time to insight, helping our customers grow their businesses and take
advantage of the new era of cloud computing."
-- Amita Potnis, Senior Research Analyst, IDC"Unstructured data is growing
exponentially and organizations are struggling to retain this data while
ensuring long-term rapid accessibility. As a result, businesses are
experiencing capacity, performance and scalability issues with
traditional NAS solutions. With its latest Web Object Scaler product,
DDN is enabling businesses to manage this exponential data growth, by
extending its performance and scalability expertise to a new set of
cloud tools, and arming customers with archiving, collaboration and DR
capabilities."
-- Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, ESG"DDN is one of the companies
pioneering the next frontier of object storage and making the case for
its adoption. Its WOS 3 product is designed to help users deal with the
problem of scalability and exponential growth of unstructured data,
while also offering the opportunity to harness the value of that data
with integrated search, collaboration and DR capabilities. With this
latest release, DDN is building on its history of supporting the most
data-intensive applications and forging the next frontier of Big Data
and HPC management."
Supporting Resources
-- WOS 3 Brochure
-- WOS Access Datasheet
-- WOS Cloud Datasheet
-- Whitepaper: Object storage - Architecting for Performance and
Availability, Robin Harris, Storage Mojo
-- University College London Deploys DDN WOS for First Phase of 100PB Cloud
Infrastructure build out
-- Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter
DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a leader in data center infrastructure for Big Data and Cloud Storage applications. Our data storage and processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the highest levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN enables enterprises to extract value and deliver results from their information. Our customers include the world's leading online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, financial services, media production, and security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide, DDN's solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in the world's most scalable data centers to ensure competitive business advantage for today's information powered enterprise. For more information, go to http://www.ddn.com or call +1-800-TERABYTE (837-2298).
DDN, WOS, Storage Fusion Architecture, SFA12K, DirectMon and hScaler are trademarks owned by DataDirect Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
[i] According to DDN benchmarking, users can expect to see their costs slashed by up to half of the costs associated with "pay-as-you-go" models such as Amazon S3 object storage service, when dealing with data volumes at scale.
[ii] Performance utilization increases were seen when comparing WOS technology with the Linux file system-based solution, OpenStack Swift.
DDN Media Contact:
Dani Kenison
Sr. Director, Global Corporate Communications
Email: dkenison@ddn.com
Work: 408-990-2658
SOURCE DataDirect Networks
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130223/MM65263LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
DataDirect Networks
Web Site: http://www.ddn.com