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DataDirect Networks Announces Industry's First Federated Tiering Capability for Both DDN Lustre and GPFS Environments
WOS-Bridge Enables Seamless Cloud Tiering, Content Collaboration and Archive of Up to Hundreds of PBs of Parallel File System Data across Local & Remote Sites and the Cloud - All Within One Global Namespace
LEIPZIG, Germany, June 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2014,
News Facts
-- DataDirect Networks (DDN), the innovation leader for HPC and Big Data,
builds on the company's strength in managing parallel file system data
for some of the world's largest deployments with the availability of the
WOS-Bridge platform now for both DDN Lustre® and GPFS(TM) environments.
-- WOS-Bridge deployed in conjunction with DDN's parallel file system
appliances, EXAScaler(TM) and GRIDScaler(TM), enables users for the
first time to seamlessly manage, distribute and retain all of their data
across local and multiple data centers and the cloud within a single
namespace. DDN's unique new capability offers organizations a single
view and access to both DDN Lustre and GPFS data, while delivering cloud
benefits, including lower overall infrastructure cost, reduced
management complexity, increased service levels and the ability to scale
file systems to hundreds of PBs of capacity.
-- As data growth continues unabated putting significant strain on IT
infrastructures and budgets, HPC organizations are striving for ways to
extend the value of existing resources, collaborate and share data
across campuses, and drive higher levels of performance. Adding to the
challenge is the desire to ensure that data is kept on an appropriate
storage tier so that it is readily available when needed, but stored
cost-effectively for long-term use.
-- Unlike competitive solutions that are unable to integrate high
performance clusters with remote data centers or the Cloud, WOS-Bridge
addresses these concerns by unifying the cluster, collaboration sites
and the Cloud in a fully federated storage solution. By expanding the
capability to both DDN Lustre and GPFS environments, WOS-Bridge provides
a simple, automated platform for leveraging the cost, collaboration and
archive benefits of the Cloud without sacrificing the productivity of
high-performance local storage.
-- Built to enable seamless integration between DDN's highly scalable
parallel file system appliances, GRIDScaler and EXAScaler, and DDN's
industry-leading full spectrum object storage solution, WOS®,
WOS-Bridge consolidates array views of local and remote data to allow
users to:
-- Tier workloads to appropriate resources, such as migrating less time
sensitive data to lower cost live archive or Cloud storage;
-- Replicate critical data between high performance storage platforms
and the cloud for advanced data protection and disaster recovery;
-- Access, distribute and share content across remote and
geographically distributed sites for simplified collaboration
without any tradeoffs in performance - all in a single solution with
no extra third-party data migration software.
-- With a single view of all local and cloud data, as well as automated
data movement, WOS-Bridge removes the limitations created by storage
silos, file counts or storage tier. The resulting high performance
object storage pool can scale uniformly to trillions of objects,
dramatically shrink administrative overhead, and slash TCO, all while
meeting extreme capacity and I/O performance requirements.
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WOS-Bridge Delivers Industry Leading Scalability, Performance and Efficiency with Built-In Data Migration Software
-- The core of WOS-Bridge is a data migration engine that automates and
manages data from a variety of storage platforms to a WOS storage cloud.
WOS polices distribute data through a choice of replication or erasure
coding to remote locations. Users accessing data in cloud storage or at
remote collaboration sites can view, modify and update locally through
WOS Access file gateways.
-- WOS Access is a natively integrated file system gateway to the WOS Cloud
that provides a POSIX compliant NFS and CIFS access to the data. The
file system gateway enables data access to users that do not have access
to the EXAScaler or GRIDScaler cluster.
-- WOS Access enables multi-site collaboration, data protection, disaster
recovery and lowest latency access by applications in multiple
geographically distributed locations to support global workflows.
Supporting Quotes
-- Molly Rector, Chief Marketing Officer, DDN"Organizations are looking for
solutions to enable faster time to business results. DDN solutions
bring together the benefits of high performance, content collaboration
and Cloud storage into a single solution. Providing quick access to
data for business analysts, researchers and scientists around the globe
is critical to a competitive business or research organization.
Recognizing the value of tying our object storage capabilities with our
high performance storage platforms, WOS-Bridge allows customers to
achieve the performance benefits of a parallel file system for their HPC
storage needs while also gaining the benefits of low cost archive
storage, the ability to share data across geographies and the
flexibility of cloud access - all in a single solution."
-- For organizations like the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where the
cost and complexity pressures of managing multiple infrastructures
across remote sites can be overwhelming, DDN's leadership-class
WOS-Bridge provides a solution that addresses some of these concerns.
According to Shailesh M. Shenoy, Director of Engineering and Operations
for Einstein's Integrated Imaging Program:"We are deploying DDN's WOS
object storage system as a corner stone technology that will meet the
demands of our biomedical researchers and their collaborating partners.
We are providing research teams with members who are on- or off-campus
seamless access to their data sets and to hybrid on-premises and
cloud-based scientific computing resources. DDN's WOS-Bridge solution
permits us to extend WOS into our high performance storage environment,
by federating our data sets from across our research community and to
achieve retention and data protection requirements."
Availability
-- WOS-Bridge is available today and can be configured with DDN GRIDScaler
based on the newly released GPFS 4.1. Configurations with DDN EXAScaler
are expected in the next quarter.
Supporting Resources
-- More on DDN WOS-Bridge
-- More on DDN WOS
-- More on DDN EXAScaler
-- More on DDN GRIDScaler
-- Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter
-- Subscribe to DDN RSS Feed
About DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world leader in massively scalable storage. 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 business 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, 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 1-800-837-2298.
©2014 All rights reserved. DDN, EXAScaler, GRIDScaler and WOS are trademarks owned by DataDirect Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
DDN Media Contact:
Dani Kenison
Sr. Director, Global Corporate Communications
Email: dkenison@ddn.com
Work: 408-990-2658
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DataDirect Networks Announces Industry's First Federated Tiering Capability for Both DDN Lustre and GPFS Environments
WOS-Bridge Enables Seamless Cloud Tiering, Content Collaboration and Archive of Up to Hundreds of PBs of Parallel File System Data across Local & Remote Sites and the Cloud - All Within One Global Namespace
LEIPZIG, Germany, June 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2014,
News Facts
-- DataDirect Networks (DDN), the innovation leader for HPC and Big Data,
builds on the company's strength in managing parallel file system data
for some of the world's largest deployments with the availability of the
WOS-Bridge platform now for both DDN Lustre® and GPFS(TM) environments.
-- WOS-Bridge deployed in conjunction with DDN's parallel file system
appliances, EXAScaler(TM) and GRIDScaler(TM), enables users for the
first time to seamlessly manage, distribute and retain all of their data
across local and multiple data centers and the cloud within a single
namespace. DDN's unique new capability offers organizations a single
view and access to both DDN Lustre and GPFS data, while delivering cloud
benefits, including lower overall infrastructure cost, reduced
management complexity, increased service levels and the ability to scale
file systems to hundreds of PBs of capacity.
-- As data growth continues unabated putting significant strain on IT
infrastructures and budgets, HPC organizations are striving for ways to
extend the value of existing resources, collaborate and share data
across campuses, and drive higher levels of performance. Adding to the
challenge is the desire to ensure that data is kept on an appropriate
storage tier so that it is readily available when needed, but stored
cost-effectively for long-term use.
-- Unlike competitive solutions that are unable to integrate high
performance clusters with remote data centers or the Cloud, WOS-Bridge
addresses these concerns by unifying the cluster, collaboration sites
and the Cloud in a fully federated storage solution. By expanding the
capability to both DDN Lustre and GPFS environments, WOS-Bridge provides
a simple, automated platform for leveraging the cost, collaboration and
archive benefits of the Cloud without sacrificing the productivity of
high-performance local storage.
-- Built to enable seamless integration between DDN's highly scalable
parallel file system appliances, GRIDScaler and EXAScaler, and DDN's
industry-leading full spectrum object storage solution, WOS®,
WOS-Bridge consolidates array views of local and remote data to allow
users to:
-- Tier workloads to appropriate resources, such as migrating less time
sensitive data to lower cost live archive or Cloud storage;
-- Replicate critical data between high performance storage platforms
and the cloud for advanced data protection and disaster recovery;
-- Access, distribute and share content across remote and
geographically distributed sites for simplified collaboration
without any tradeoffs in performance - all in a single solution with
no extra third-party data migration software.
-- With a single view of all local and cloud data, as well as automated
data movement, WOS-Bridge removes the limitations created by storage
silos, file counts or storage tier. The resulting high performance
object storage pool can scale uniformly to trillions of objects,
dramatically shrink administrative overhead, and slash TCO, all while
meeting extreme capacity and I/O performance requirements.
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20130223/MM65263LOGO
Tweet this: NEWS: @DDN_Limitless unifies cluster, collaboration sites and the #Cloud in a fully federated storage solution http://bit.ly/1uUaj5o
WOS-Bridge Delivers Industry Leading Scalability, Performance and Efficiency with Built-In Data Migration Software
-- The core of WOS-Bridge is a data migration engine that automates and
manages data from a variety of storage platforms to a WOS storage cloud.
WOS polices distribute data through a choice of replication or erasure
coding to remote locations. Users accessing data in cloud storage or at
remote collaboration sites can view, modify and update locally through
WOS Access file gateways.
-- WOS Access is a natively integrated file system gateway to the WOS Cloud
that provides a POSIX compliant NFS and CIFS access to the data. The
file system gateway enables data access to users that do not have access
to the EXAScaler or GRIDScaler cluster.
-- WOS Access enables multi-site collaboration, data protection, disaster
recovery and lowest latency access by applications in multiple
geographically distributed locations to support global workflows.
Supporting Quotes
-- Molly Rector, Chief Marketing Officer, DDN"Organizations are looking for
solutions to enable faster time to business results. DDN solutions
bring together the benefits of high performance, content collaboration
and Cloud storage into a single solution. Providing quick access to
data for business analysts, researchers and scientists around the globe
is critical to a competitive business or research organization.
Recognizing the value of tying our object storage capabilities with our
high performance storage platforms, WOS-Bridge allows customers to
achieve the performance benefits of a parallel file system for their HPC
storage needs while also gaining the benefits of low cost archive
storage, the ability to share data across geographies and the
flexibility of cloud access - all in a single solution."
-- For organizations like the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where the
cost and complexity pressures of managing multiple infrastructures
across remote sites can be overwhelming, DDN's leadership-class
WOS-Bridge provides a solution that addresses some of these concerns.
According to Shailesh M. Shenoy, Director of Engineering and Operations
for Einstein's Integrated Imaging Program:"We are deploying DDN's WOS
object storage system as a corner stone technology that will meet the
demands of our biomedical researchers and their collaborating partners.
We are providing research teams with members who are on- or off-campus
seamless access to their data sets and to hybrid on-premises and
cloud-based scientific computing resources. DDN's WOS-Bridge solution
permits us to extend WOS into our high performance storage environment,
by federating our data sets from across our research community and to
achieve retention and data protection requirements."
Availability
-- WOS-Bridge is available today and can be configured with DDN GRIDScaler
based on the newly released GPFS 4.1. Configurations with DDN EXAScaler
are expected in the next quarter.
Supporting Resources
-- More on DDN WOS-Bridge
-- More on DDN WOS
-- More on DDN EXAScaler
-- More on DDN GRIDScaler
-- Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter
-- Subscribe to DDN RSS Feed
About DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world leader in massively scalable storage. 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 business 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, 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 1-800-837-2298.
©2014 All rights reserved. DDN, EXAScaler, GRIDScaler and WOS are trademarks owned by DataDirect Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
DDN Media Contact:
Dani Kenison
Sr. Director, Global Corporate Communications
Email: dkenison@ddn.com
Work: 408-990-2658
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