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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 18, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 33
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Breaking News -
Storage:
DataDirect S2A Provides Wide Range
Of Storage Needs
The world's high-performance, high-scalability networked storage leader,
DataDirect Networks, is changing the storage paradigm for Rich Media and High
Performance Computing (HPC). Powering the world's top computer systems the
DataDirect S2A with Serial ATA (SATA) is being embraced by leading
organizations to provide a versatile solution to a wide range of storage needs
- from archiving to on-line storage.
At a fraction of the cost, DataDirect S2A with SATA drives is offering
performance and reliability comparable to Fibre-Channel (FC) disk drive based
systems. Maintaining 85% or better of FC performance with sequential data
transfers the DataDirect S2A with SATA drives is an ideal storage solution for
HPC and rich media organization.
"Our goal was to provide a SATA based system that delivers the same
unmatched
levels of performance, availability and reliability, data integrity, and
scalability that our valued customers learned to expect form us." Said Alex
Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks. "By writing extensive firmware and
software to enhance SATA reliability, and utilizing DataDirect S2A's unique
parallel architecture and virtualization capabilities we provide our customers
a robust SATA based networked storage system specifically designed for data
and bandwidth intensive computing environments."
"Not only the DataDirect S2A delivers the highest levels of performance but
also guaranties that this performance is sustained in the event of disk or
even full disk chassis failure." Said Paul Bloch, President of DataDirect
Networks. "In addition, the DataDirect S2A provides an extra level of data
protection over and above other SATA based solutions by uniquely employing a
powerful parity engine that is continuously checking parity in the background
as well as checking parity "on the fly" with every read and write.
Providing a system that can answer tomorrow's capacity needs today the
DataDirect S2A coupled with SATA disks can easily scale to hundreds of
Terabytes behind a single S2A system or Petabytes with several systems
deployed as a cluster.
Supporting the ability to mix and mach SATA and FC disks under the same
controller, the DataDirect S2A networked storage system provides the
versatility to deploy complementary storage types for varying performance
requirements under one system.
The DataDirect S2A makes deployment, data movement and management a breeze.
Lowering TCO by simplifying administration tasks the DataDirect S2A provides
many helpful features such as: FC and SATA consolidation, built-in replication
capabilities, advanced virtualization and any-to-any data access, load
balancing, and exceptional performance monitoring and optimization tools.
Customers using DataDirect's S2A storage system include: Time Warner Cable,
CNN, E! Networks, RTL Television, Telecinqo, Eurosport, BBC, CineGroupe, Star
TV, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Sandia National Labs, NCSA, NASA
Goddard, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Argonne National Laboratory, US Army
Research Lab, NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, and NCAR among others.
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