FREMONT, Calif., April 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Xyratex,
Ltd., a Seagate company (NASDAQ: STX), a leading provider of data
storage technology, today announced a new addition to the
ClusterStor™ family of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big
Data engineered storage solutions – the ClusterStor Secure Data
Appliance (SDA). Designed to meet government ICD 503 and Cross
Domain Solution (CDS) requirements, the ClusterStor SDA solution
provides multilevel security capabilities combined with the
industry's fastest storage performance and largest data capacity
available today for productivity critical HPC and Big Data
applications. This new ClusterStor solution features end-to-end
integration, management and world-class support providing unmatched
capability and investment protection in addition to the new
multilevel security enhancements. The ClusterStor SDA will be
available through Xyratex reseller partners in 2014.
Since its release in June 2011,
ClusterStor data storage solutions continue to deliver a new
standard in file system throughput and storage performance,
scalability and reliability. ClusterStor is an established field
production proven solution supporting data capture, simulation,
modeling and analysis of petascale data set processing ranging from
commercial business critical to government mission critical
applications. ClusterStor's innovative modular architecture enables
linear performance scalability from several gigabytes per second
(GB/s) to over a 1.0 terabytes per second and flexible data storage
capacity deployments ranging from tens of terabyte (TB) to over 25
petabyte (PB) of data storage capacity, all managed within a single
global name space. With this remarkable degree of flexibility,
ClusterStor satisfies the widest spectrum of HPC and Big Data needs
in the industry in helping organizations do more with their
existing budgets with substantially better results.
With its multilevel security capabilities, the ClusterStor SDA
provides the means to manage multiple data types and multiple
security classifications in a single file system on a single
network, supporting high-speed data storage throughput and
massively scalable data processing. The ClusterStor SDA is ideally
suited for mission critical government applications, such as
Geospatial imagery capture which requires high performance ingest
rates, massively parallel data access to support intensive data
analysis and large data storage capacity archive.
"The enthusiastic response from our government customers,
especially in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence
Communities (IC) has been truly outstanding," said Ken Claffey, Vice President & General
Manager ClusterStor at Xyratex. "The ClusterStor SDA represents an
industry first, combining low level data access enforcement and
logging mechanisms, purpose-built within a proven HPC and Big Data
single-system solution. Since our customers need to know exactly
who is doing what on their systems, as well as access to complete
and explicit audit trails, the ClusterStor SDA delivers all the
necessary tools and support to collaboratively share information,
while strictly complying with security data protection
standards."
The ClusterStor SDA provides security systems administrators the
capability to protect against internal as well as external data
leaks or malicious attacks throughout the data life cycle process.
Further, organizations can realize significant cost reductions in
capital expenditures and operational expenses by consolidating
separate compute, network and data storage silos used today to
segregate security classifications into a single ClusterStor SDA
multilevel security solution.
Xyratex will showcase its new ClusterStor SDA in booth #7048 at
the GEOINT Symposium (www.geoint2013.com) held April 15 – 17 at the Tampa Convention Center. The GEOINT Symposium,
hosted by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
(USGIF), is the nation's largest annual and preeminent intelligence
event.
About Xyratex
Xyratex, a Seagate company, is a leading provider of data
storage technology, including modular solutions for
the enterprise data storage industry and hard disk drive
(HDD) capital equipment for the HDD industry. Xyratex enterprise
data storage platforms provide a range of advanced, scalable data
storage solutions for the Original Equipment Manufacturer and High
Performance Computing communities. As the largest capital equipment
supplier to the HDD industry, Xyratex enables disk drive
manufacturers and their component suppliers to meet today's
technology and productivity requirements. Xyratex has over 25 years
of experience in research and development relating to disk drives,
storage systems and manufacturing process technology.
SOURCE Xyratex, Ltd.