LISA Scientific Research Institution Selects Sphere 3D's SnapScale to Meet Rapid Data Growth Needs
May 11 2015 - 12:47PM
Sphere 3D Corp. (Nasdaq:ANY), a virtualization and data management
solutions provider, today announced that LISA (Inter-University
Laboratory of Atmospheric Systems), a joint university between
Paris-Est Creteil, Paris Diderot and CNRS, has selected SnapScale®,
one of the industry's simplest and largest scale-out solutions, as
primary storage to protect all of its scientific research data.
LISA research focuses on understanding the functions of terrestrial
and planetary atmospheres and the impacts related to the changes of
the atmospheric composition due to human activities.
LISA (http://www.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/fr), a division of the
internationally recognized Observatory of Earth Sciences EFLUVE and
the IPSL research federation for environment and climate research,
is implementing a broad set of instruments for conducting physical
and chemical measurements in the laboratory and in the field of
gaseous and particulate atmospheric compounds. LISA required a
highly-available storage solution for scientific data generated
through its research collected from field instruments, simulation
chambers, processing of inversion of satellite data and modeling
data. Sphere 3D's SnapScale enterprise scale-out storage clusters
scale to hundreds of petabytes in capacity in a single storage
pool, while providing multi-tiered data integrity and protection.
LISA is using SnapScale to manage their unstructured data generated
from extensive measurements, analysis, and simulation modeling.
SnapScale was chosen by LISA over other competitive solutions
for the simplicity of deployment, the unique data protection
architecture, and versatile scalability. Both scale-up and
scale-out capabilities are supported for matching performance and
storage capacity growth as needed. SnapScale provides the high
availability that LISA required to tolerate multiple disk failures,
or the failure of nodes, and through software refreshes without any
disruption of service. SnapScale uses Sphere 3D's patented Peer Set
protection technology that drastically reduces any service
degradation caused by offline data reconstruction normally
experienced with traditional scale-out solutions.
LISA started with 65 TB of SnapScale storage using partially
populated X4 nodes. Recently, they have added drives and nodes with
ease and no service disruption to grow their storage deployment to
over 400 TB. The SnapScale infrastructure allows them to grow their
storage cluster to several hundred PBs. A new case study that
describes LISA's selection of SnapScale for scalability, simplicity
and resiliency is available at http://ow.ly/MsGkl.
"High availability of our storage infrastructure is critical to
our research activity and the reason we chose SnapScale," said
Cyril Pennanech, who is responsible for IT services and networking
at LISA. "We were also very impressed by the simplicity and
scale of SnapScale. Since our initial deployment, we have
seamlessly added capacity, and we expect SnapScale to continue
growing as our data grows."
LISA initially employed a scale-out system built using partially
populated SnapScale X4 systems. SnapScale's scale-up feature
allowed the customer to increase performance and capacity by simply
adding more drives. When new nodes were added, they automatically
"learned" their configuration from the cluster, resulting in zero
operational overhead for LISA. In addition, the SnapScale cluster
remained fully functional during this expansion, and automatically
self-balanced the data to scale performance and
capacity. SnapScale allows customers to infinitely scale
capacity and performance of the storage cluster.
"The LISA scientific research institute's experience with our
SnapScale enterprise scale-out solution exemplifies how customers
with rapid data growth achieve on-demand and granular scaling of
capacity and performance without adding management complexity,"
said Nilesh Patel, VP of Product Management and Marketing at
Sphere3D.
Transtec was chosen to deploy the SnapScale solution
for their advanced technical expertise in design and
implementation. Transtec serves universities, research institutes
and development departments with a passion for delivering solutions
in high performance compute and virtualization environments. They
focus on enterprise solutions that deliver simplicity, scalability
and performance.
About SnapScale
SnapScale is a clustered NAS solution that is a storage industry
leader providing simplicity, performance and scalability. It solves
the problems of traditional storage by enabling organizations with
rapid or unpredictable data growth to scale capacity and
performance without adding management complexity. SnapScale
eliminates islands of storage, enabling easy and uninterrupted
scalability without having to predict capacity in advance. Offering
user-selectable levels of data protection, SnapScale writes data
across multiple nodes and drives simultaneously for instant
protection and high availability. The SnapScale hardware
architecture and "single pane of glass" management creates a
consistent user experience while both managing the existing "Global
Namespace" and scaling storage as needed, all without additional
layers of administration.
About Sphere 3D
Sphere 3D Corp. (Nasdaq:ANY) is a virtualization technology and
data management solutions provider with a portfolio of
workload-optimized solutions that address IT needs for delivering
productivity through workspace and data infrastructure and
management. Dedicated to continue to lead through innovation,
Sphere 3D enables the integration of virtual applications, virtual
desktops, and storage platforms, allowing organizations to deploy a
combination of public, private or hybrid cloud strategies. Sphere
3D's Glassware 2.0® platform delivers virtualization of some of the
most demanding applications in the marketplace today, making it
easy to move applications from a physical PC or workstation to a
virtual environment. Sphere 3D's V3 hyper-converged infrastructure
solutions include one of the industry's first purpose-built
appliances for virtual workspace workloads and the Desktop Cloud
Orchestrator™ management software for VDI. Overland Storage and
Tandberg Data, wholly-owned subsidiaries of Sphere 3D, provide an
integrated range of technologies and services for primary,
nearline, offline, and archival data storage that make it easy and
cost-effective to manage different tiers of information over the
data lifecycle. For more information, visit www.sphere3d.com.
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