Meet DataDirect: Cloud Storage vendor with a difference!

Instead of taking a clustered-filer-in-the-data-centre approach like Isilon, or using Panasas-like parallel access to files, it’s put its head in the clouds and gone for a geo-cluster of quasi-filers that store objects. There is API-access to a global namespace for objects that, DDN says, can scale to store more than 200 billion files and deliver in excess of 1m file reads per second, via simultaneous access to hundreds of its cloud storage boxes - the WOS 6000 or smaller WOS 1600.

The 1600 is a 3U rack enclosure storing 16TB of data on SATA drives or 7.2TB on faster access SAS ones. The 6000 is a 4U enclosure with up to 60TB of SATA capacity. It’s the same enclosure as used in other DDN block storage systems. The different appliance configurations can be mixed in the same WOS cloud and new nodes are automatically discovered and used to load-balance the cluster’s work. WOS nodes can be unpacked and set up in minutes.

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