Western Digital Introduces ActiveScale™, Facilitating a Data Forever Architecture
September 26 2017 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
ActiveScale Release 5.1 introduces key
capabilities that are designed to dramatically reduce TCO by
futureproofing large scale storage
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a global data storage
technology and solutions leader, today announced the introduction
of new features with its ActiveScale object storage 5.1 Release
that facilitates a data forever architecture. Companies looking to
increase their competitiveness are gaining valuable insights from
massive amounts of data over longer time periods. ActiveScale 5.1
helps customers implement a Data Forever strategy with seamless
scalability of up to 52 petabytes and extreme data durability
required for long-term data storage.
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(Join the webcast today at 10 am PT to learn more. To
register, visit www.hgst.com/datalivesforever.)
Enterprises need to scale their data storage in a fast and
non-disruptive manner. Most traditional architectures grow as
isolated silos and can’t take advantage of the latest technology
for better total cost of ownership or suffer from unpredictable
performance as they grow. ActiveScale’s ability to help create a
Data Forever architecture allows seamless growth without sacrifice
to performance, data durability or TCO.
“Western Digital has taken the best parts of object storage and
combined those with its 'Dynamic Data Placement' to help its
customers to not only keep – but also access – the most
valuable data forever,” says Mark Peters, practice director and
senior analyst, ESG. “ActiveScale is a self-protected platform with
excellent resilience and recovery features; moreover, it neither
locks its users into specific hardware nor requires a forklift
upgrade or rebalancing when adding new capacity. Its massive data
capacity can then be mined for insights, which can help unlock
incremental business value.”
Enterprises need seamless scaling and data integrity that
ActiveScale provides with its new features and architecture for
customers to economically store, protect and access petabytes of
data over multiple generations of storage systems. New components
of the ActiveScale architecture include:
- Dynamic Data Placement - to enable
easy, non-disruptive upgrades and additional capacity in a single
namespace without sacrifice to performance or data durability
without rebalancing. This allows customers to easily integrate new
generations of storage to leverage the latest improvements in
TCO.
- Variable storage capacity - to ensure
seamless data durability and scaling within and across systems with
different capacities so that customers can scale and upgrade their
hardware across drive and system generations.
- Seamless ability to scale capacity up
and out in a single global namespace – to make growing capacity
beyond a single rack or datacenter simple.
- Versioning of objects – for additional
data durability to support simple recovery of data from user error
or cyber threats.
- Improved erasure coding performance –
to provide higher performance for improved productivity.
"Preserving our history is incredibly important to the legacy of
Sundance Institute and the independent storytellers we support,”
said Justin Simmons, director of Technology Services, Sundance
Institute. “Western Digital has something no one else does - a
system built for preservation that grows to petabyte scale and
helps keep assets forever at an affordable cost. Centralizing our
archives so they are secure, protected, searchable, and accessible
to the entire organization solves our preservation problem and
gives us a scalable solution for the future.”
“ActiveScale changes the fundamental economics of data by
delivering capacity that is designed to be future proof for
dramatically lower TCO,” said Phil Bullinger, general manager, Data
Center Systems Business Unit, Western Digital. “The new
architecture enables data center managers to easily transition to
new storage capacities and ActiveScale hardware releases. And, with
its Dynamic Data Placement capabilities, and simple and flexible
capacity scaling features, ActiveScale eliminates hot spot problems
of competing architectures, while pushing new boundaries in terms
of storage operating and capital cost efficiency and
effectiveness.”
ActiveScale’s new architecture with the latest Dynamic Data
Placement technology, erasure coding updates, scaling and
versioning features are included in the ActiveScale 5.1 release,
available immediately.
To visit a replay of today’s webcast, visit
www.hgst.com/datalivesforever. For more information about the
ActiveScale family, visit:
https://www.hgst.com/products/systems.
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About Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is an industry-leading
provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people
to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The company
addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio
of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with customer-focused
innovation, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products
are marketed under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs,
distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and
consumers.
One GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000 GB
(one trillion bytes). One PB is equal to 1,000 TB (one quadrillion
bytes). One ZB is equal to 1,000,000 PB (one sextillion bytes).
Actual capacity will vary depending on operating environment and
formatting. Usable capacity will vary from the raw capacity due to
object storage methodologies and other factors.
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Corporation or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. All
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