Evaluating the overall affordability of a platform goes beyond just comparing the cost per gigabyte acquisition cost; it also includes evaluating ongoing management costs, the platform’s ability to integrate with existing storage processes utilizing standard interfaces and the ongoing costs associated with power, cooling and floor space requirements.
DataValet, for online and archive content, can provide much faster response with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than traditional disk or tape-based archives. The scale-out architecture of the BladeRack 2 X-Series of platforms and DataValet together with it’s self-servicing, just-in-time provisioning and built in compliance and regulatory features delivers the lowest cost per gigabyte available and the lowest cost of ownership for online and active archival storage.
Store
Start with a few terabytes and scale capacities to petabytes all within a single cluster. DataValet is a flexible architecture that delivers independently scalable performance and capacity. Configure DataValet so the platform can provide the right mix of capabilities without over-buying or over-provisioning, and dynamically change the cluster’s attributes as business and application needs change. A DataValet cluster delivers massive scalability for today’s fast growing unstructured data at lower price points than is offered by competing storage architectures. It’s eco-friendly providing the industry’s best power, cooling and floor space efficiency.
Manage
DataValet clusters are self-configuring, self managing and self-healing, keeping the clusters running at optimal performance. Central, browser based administration of a DataValet cluster is the same whether it is configured with three or three thousand nodes. Administrative effort is maintained as the cluster can be easily managed at any scale significantly reducing admin overhead and contributing to a low total cost of ownership.
Distribute
User and application requests are transparently distributed throughout all the nodes in a DataValet cluster. Content can be redirected across locations to improve availability and enable scalability by distributing requests across multiple or larger systems as user demands change.
DataValet allows organizations to integrate and access storage and data in new ways through industry standard web services and networking protocols. In turn, complex storage interactions and data access is simplified and easily integrated into business processes, applications and corporate and public clouds.
Users and applications can integrate data from anywhere via lightweight web applications or NAS gateways to automate storage and data management. When the location of data is no longer important, it’s easy to scale performance by distributing or moving data across nodes in the cluster according to demand.
This location-abstraction of data eliminates disruptive data migrations and service events.
Protect
Applications can utilize lightweight web logic for self-managing data archiving. Enterprise applications can utilize DataValet’s rich metadata in order to automatically replicate, move and secure data according to its content and file characteristics via built-in compliance and regulatory features.
To provide the service levels necessary for 24/7 IT operations, DataValet clusters have no single points of failure. DataValet takes advantage of the inherent redundancy of its cluster architecture using all nodes as symmetrical resources. A DataValet Cluster provides for online maintenance, upgrades, and data migration including the transparent ability to re-balance workloads as resources are added to or subtracted from a cluster. Both local and wide area replicated configurations are easily established for disaster recovery purposes.
SB1058XL • Up to 24TB External Storage • Hardware RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, 6 and 60 • Two Gigabit Ethernet Connections Standard • Front Bezel LED Status Indicators • 12 Hot-Swap SATA II Hard Drives per Disk Blade
DataValet, for online and archive content, can provide much faster response with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than traditional disk or tape-based archives. The scale-out architecture of the BladeRack 2 X-Series of platforms and DataValet together delivers the lowest cost per gigabyte available.
Full technical specifications for the DataValet solution can be found here
