SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced that two of Europe's premier research institutions are
using the company's StorNext® workflow storage as the
foundation for managing their growing data and enabling a range of
scientific initiatives. GWDG — the computing center for the
University of Göttingen and computing and IT competence center for
the Max Planck Society — deployed StorNext-powered disk and tape
systems in a multi-tier solution to meet its performance and access
requirements for 7PB of data. Separately, the Max Planck Institute
for Chemistry also turned to Quantum for an end-to-end storage and
archive solution that would support greater collaboration and
continuous access to an ever-expanding volume of data.
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GWDG manages billions of files and petascale data across
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Providing High-Performance Shared Access and a Massive
Archive for GWDG Data
GWDG supports more than 40,000 users
and needed a high-performance storage system that could handle
billions of files and — with data volumes nearly doubling annually
— scale to meet rapidly rising demand. In addition, the storage
platform had to support a multi-tier storage environment, including
making 2.5PB of data on disk and 4.5PB on tape accessible from a
single file system.
StorNext has met all these scale, performance and access
requirements. Today it enables the center's IT group to support
users across a range of operating systems and manage a large and
growing data archive without hiring extra staff or diverting people
from other projects. As just one example of the benefits Quantum
has delivered, GWDG provides the center's High Performance
Computing (HPC) cluster with shared access to data from the
StorNext environment at speeds far above its requirements. The IT
group installed StorNext distributed LAN clients on HPC nodes for
access over Ethernet, generating speeds of 3.2GB/second, compared
to the 2GB/second performance HPC users had requested. As a result,
these users can move large amounts of data into the cluster for
processing and out again for long-term storage.
Enabling Simultaneous Data Access and Integrated Protection
at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
The Max Planck
Institute for Chemistry explores the chemical processes in the
atmosphere and the interaction between air, water, earth and man,
producing huge volumes of raw data. One research project involving
the study of climate change in the Brazilian rainforest includes
measurement devices collecting up to 80GB of data daily. The data
is then transported to a data center in Germany, where it is processed and made
available to researchers around the world.
Faced with skyrocketing data growth from initiatives such as
this, the need to provide simultaneous data access to multiple
researchers, and a data backup system that couldn't keep up, the
Institute worked with microstaxx — a leading system integrator to
identify a solution — and selected StorNext.
Today the data management platform provides the performance
needed to support multiple parallel streams of data, the ability to
scale rapidly and easily as new projects are launched and the
simultaneous data access that helps drive greater productivity. By
delivering robust performance, capacity and support for a full
range of client operating systems (including Linux, UNIX, Windows
and Mac), StorNext has also reduced the need for teams to acquire
and maintain their own storage environments.
In addition, the Institute has benefitted from the integrated
data protection StorNext provides. Leveraging multi-tier data
management and a Quantum Scalar i6000 tape library, Max Planck can protect research data
automatically and continuously in the background. Quantum's Active
Vault feature enables archiving of tapes inside the library instead
of on a shelf, thereby minimizing costs and cartridge handling
while improving security and access to vaulted content. At the same
time, Quantum's policy-driven Extended Data Life Management helps
prevent data loss by periodically checking the data on a tape and
copying it to a new tape if a problem is detected.
Supporting Quotes
Dr. Philipp Wieder, Deputy Head, GWDG
"In
our experience, StorNext is the only platform that can handle the
number of files and amount of data we manage while also delivering
high performance. StorNext has met our needs even as our workflows
have become more demanding and our environment has evolved."
Thomas Disper, CISO and Head
of IT, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
"With the
StorNext platform, we have removed barriers to research. It allows
us to provide a lot more capacity quickly and easily. We don't need
to give research teams data limits, and storage for new projects
can be ready in an afternoon."
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Photo Caption: Quantum's StorNext platform manages enormous
volumes of data for GWDG
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Photo Caption: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry powers
research with Quantum StorNext
Additional Resources
- For the complete GWDG customer case study:
www.quantum.com/customerstories/gwdg/index.aspx
- For the complete Max Planck Institute for Chemistry case study:
www.quantum.com/customerstories/maxplanck/index.aspx
- To learn more about StorNext:
www.quantum.com/products/scale-out-storage/index.aspx
About Quantum
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scale-out storage, archive and data protection, providing solutions
for capturing, sharing and preserving digital assets over the
entire data lifecycle. From small businesses to major enterprises,
more than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to address their
most demanding data workflow challenges. Quantum's end-to-end,
tiered storage foundation enables customers to maximize the value
of their data by making it accessible whenever and wherever needed,
retaining it indefinitely and reducing total cost and complexity.
See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories.
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