SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced the availability of the
latest release of its advanced WOS® object storage platform. Coming
off a year of 250 percent year-over-year revenue bookings growth
and its vast object storage leadership with more than 225 billion
objects managed by DDN WOS, DDN continues to fuel its object
storage momentum with the announcement of its new WOS 360 v2.0
release. WOS 360 2.0 offers a full suite of new options to
expand use cases in enterprises, cloud, BYOD shared storage, deep
archive, video streaming, and file sync and share offerings. WOS
delivers:
- New lower cost capacity tier for long-term archive, offering
deep archive for up to 30 percent lower cost than the platform's
performance tier;
- 20 percent increased storage efficiency using the updated
Global Object Assure (GOA) erasure
coding;
- New industry-leading ultra-high density enclosure that stores
nearly 800 terabytes in a 4U array for deep archive;
- Expanded connectivity option that adds OpenStack Swift support
to an already robust interface offering of S3, CIFS, NFS, GPFS,
Lustre and native REST;
- Robust end-to-end security of the management layer, data
in-flight and node-to-node security within the WOS ecosystem;
and
- An easy turnkey appliance deployment model, which makes the WOS
object storage platform an ideal solution for service providers,
resale through the channel and deployment as a private cloud
offering.
With more than 1 billion new objects under WOS management added
per week, DDN object storage adoption is increasing rapidly as
users seek network-efficient solutions for data sharing,
alternatives to tape for long term archive, and lower cost storage
tiers within NAS environments. To address the long-term archive use
case, DDN has added both a lower cost storage tier as well as the
option to perform continuous background data integrity checks
within WOS to ensure data integrity is maintained throughout the
long lifecycle of archive requirements.
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DDN's WOS 360 2.0 enables secure public and private cloud
deployments, and delivers efficient data protection options while
reducing storage administration and cost. In addition to expanding
use cases such as enterprise, cloud and file sync and share, it is
ideal for data-intensive environments within media and
entertainment, research, life sciences and education.
"The challenge of managing, sharing and extracting value from
rapidly growing, large scale, unstructured data is impacting IT
organizations worldwide and is driving demand for intelligent, high
density, cost effective storage deployments," said Molly Rector, CMO, executive vice president
product management and worldwide marketing, DDN. "We are committed
to advancing the promise of object storage to enable organizations
to build highly reliable, infinitely scalable, cost-efficient
storage pools for all their unstructured data. And, with increased
connectivity and additional lower cost configuration options, DDN
has made it easier than ever to design and deploy optimized
end-to-end storage solutions using WOS to meet these
challenges."
New Low Cost Capacity Node
The WOS capacity node enables customers to store and protect
massive quantities of unstructured data within the smallest
footprint and at the lowest cost per TB. It delivers
industry-leading storage density, twice the density of competitive
offerings, and provides 768 terabytes (TB) of raw capacity in just
4U of rack space. Preconfigured with 96 8TB drives and two 10Gb
Ethernet ports, the WOS capacity node offers a new long-term tier
to supplement the WOS 7000 performance tier. WOS 360 2.0
uniquely offers high-performance nodes and dense, high-capacity
storage tier options for an ultra-efficient, cost effective object
storage solution.
Turnkey Appliance
To best support DDN's channel partners, the company has
streamlined the WOS deployment process, making it turnkey to
install. With a simple point and click graphical user interface
(GUI), the administrator simply selects the specific WOS components
and target systems on which to deploy. Once deployment options are
specified, the installation process is fully automated and enables
large and complex configurations to be deployed in minutes.
Software updates to existing WOS clusters are also automated to
further streamline system management and reduce ongoing storage
administration for the customer.
OpenStack Swift API
The WOS 360 2.0 release expands access options to any storage
environment with the addition of a native OpenStack Swift API. With
DDN's new Swift API, organizations using OpenStack are able to
easily leverage the advanced data protection, scalability,
performance, storage efficiency and geo-distribution capabilities
available through DDN's industry-leading WOS platform. The broad
range of WOS interface options include: S3/Swift NFS/CIFS/SMB,
GPFS, and native WOS REST extensions for private or hybrid cloud
deployments.
Increased Storage Efficiency
As market adoption of object storage accelerates, customers are
requiring solutions that deliver higher levels of data protection
and storage efficiency without the excessive network bandwidth
consumption found with most solutions in the market. WOS Global
ObjectAssure™ (GOA), DDN's second
generation hierarchical erasure code is now 20 percent more storage
efficient and delivers data protection across multiple sites with
only 1.5x storage overhead. The improved efficiency translates
directly to lower storage acquisition and network cost, improved
space efficiency and reduced power requirements.
"Keeping up with the growth in unstructured data may be the
single biggest challenge facing the data center over the next five
years. Object storage is gaining traction because it was designed
specifically for unstructured data and can handle that data on a
massive scale," said George Crump,
chief steward, Storage Switzerland. "DDN is solidifying a
leadership position with its latest WOS platform features that
not only advance performance, scalability and geo-distribution
capabilities, but also expand connectivity options to allow more
environments such as OpenStack Swift to leverage its
potential."
In addition to unmatched density, enhanced data protection, and
simplified installation, new WOS features include:
- Interface deployment flexibility. New software deployment
options provide customers the flexibility to implement S3/Swift
interfaces on discrete gateway servers or fully embedded
implementations that run locally with the WOS software. Designed
for customers who do not require the extreme performance or
independent scalability of discrete gateway configurations, the
embedded method simplifies deployment by co-locating both S3/Swift
interfaces and WOS software on the same system or WOS 7000
performance appliance, eliminating the need for separate discrete
gateway servers and cabling complexity.
- Performance enhancements for video streaming, content
distribution and other large data transfer or high throughput use
cases. Updates to WOS software components deliver a 90 percent
reduction in latency and time to first byte of data for more
predictable quality of service (QoS) for latency-sensitive
applications.
- Enhanced security, with end-to-end data protection extending
from the client application layer with connection authentication,
to a hardened management layer and SSL encrypted LAN/WAN traffic
between WOS nodes to provide a secure storage environment that
protects and keeps data private.
- Increased data protection and MTBF. The WOS object storage
platform offers enhanced data protection with the implementation of
a continuous data integrity check that systematically reads all
objects and metadata to verify data integrity and increase the
MTBF. The process automatically repairs corrupted objects to
maintain the integrity of the data.
- Complete software defined data migration and management tiers
data between an object storage platform and a high performance
parallel file system. DDN's WOS Bridge receives updates and offers
an enhanced GUI that expands system management and data protection
capabilities, including simplified and expanded data migration
policies, deep performance monitoring, visualization of migration
processes and system components, improved data protection and
recovery of stub files and meta data via backup to WOS.
Availability
Designed and priced to meet a wide variety of service provider,
big data, private and public cloud models, many of the new WOS
features are currently generally available and select security
features will be available during the fourth quarter of this
year.
Supporting Resources
- WOS Brochure
- WOS Access Datasheet
- About WOS
- Follow DDN via Blog and Twitter
About DDN
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 www.ddn.com or call
1-800-837-2298.
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