Company Introduces Entry-Level Object Storage
System that Removes Economic Barriers for Scale-up and Scale-out
Data Center Infrastructures
Delivering the possibilities of data, Western Digital
Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced the introduction of a new
entry-level storage system focused on addressing cloud-scale
challenges. Expanding its existing systems, solutions and platforms
portfolio, the new plug-and-play object storage system, the
ActiveScale™ P100 system, provides the foundation for the future of
petabyte (PB) scale storage infrastructure. The ActiveScale P100 is
the company’s latest integrated storage system, which disrupts the
economics of scaling capacity into petabytes, and enables the
creation of massive data storage repositories across both
on-premise and hosted cloud architectures.
New ActiveScale P100 Storage System
The ActiveScale P100 joins the Data Center System (DCS) business
unit’s portfolio that also includes the Active Archive System, the
InfiniFlash™ all-Flash storage platform, and the disk-based
platforms. The ActiveScale P100 is an economic entry-level
configuration that scales from 720TB to 19PB of raw capacity to
meet application data growth needs in increments of easy-to-install
capacities. It’s an extensible, fully integrated architecture that
utilizes a standard Amazon® S3 interface for object storage. The
system is ideal for high-capacity demanding markets, including
on-premise and off-premise cloud, life sciences,
government/defense, and media and entertainment industry
applications. The ActiveScale system easily addresses both capacity
and performance challenges for data-intensive workloads, such as
large content repositories, media streaming and media services,
data analytics, data protection and archiving.
Included in the ActiveScale P100, and available today for
current HGST Active Archive System customers, is ActiveScale CM
(cloud management), a new cloud-based system monitoring tool that
allows customers to simply and effectively manage their systems. It
is provided at no additional cost. ActiveScale CM provides remote
system health monitoring and predictive capacity and performance
analytics to proactively manage the storage and access to
petabyte-scale data, subsequently reducing IT and administrative
costs.
“Object storage is a key technology that has enabled
hyperscalers to build cloud-scale infrastructure,” said Terri
McClure, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “We believe
that the ActiveScale P100 system will enable strong consistency at
cloud-scale, and enables enterprises to achieve new levels of scale
and flexibility far easier and at a much better cost point than
traditional storage.”
List pricing for the ActiveScale P100 system starts at $0.22 per
gigabyte and is available for immediate order.
“The nice thing about the Active Archive System is that it plugs
directly into the Versity Storage Manager without any special
modifications,” said Bo Kennedy, director of Architecture,
OvationData. “We don’t have to change our workflow at all. In fact,
the Active Archive System enhances our workflow. Object storage
provides both economic and performance advantages but the challenge
to any system is scaling efficiently. We look forward to seeing
ActiveScale’s solution to this challenge.”
“The storage industry is facing a wave of transformation,
stemming from cloud architectures, software-defined storage, the
convergence of compute, and the growing adoption of flash,” said
Eric Burgener, research director, Storage Practice, IDC. “As
enterprises and service providers alike evolve their
infrastructures to incorporate these new technologies, they will
look to enterprise providers like Western Digital that bring
specific expertise in integrating them into next-generation
platform offerings.”
“We have integrated the fundamental building blocks of storage
to create solutions for the market that will help customers extract
greater value from increasing volumes of data,” said Dave Tang,
senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Systems
business unit, Western Digital. “The capacity and value delivered
by the ActiveScale P100 makes cloud-scale repositories and big data
analytics economically feasible and accessible to virtually every
application and industry. With our entire product portfolio, we’re
changing how enterprises and cloud service providers deploy, scale
and manage cloud-scale data centers. Our turnkey systems enable
businesses to shift their focus from building infrastructure to
harnessing the power of data for their customers or
organizations.”
Partnering with the DCS Business Unit
Through the Enterprise Partner Program, the DCS business unit
works closely with key solution providers to deliver new levels of
service to customers. The DCS business unit is integrating, tuning
and optimizing key technologies at the component, firmware,
software, platforms and system levels to create a portfolio that
enables partners to address big data and fast data challenges.
Additionally, the program brings together leading application
independent software vendors (ISVs) in conjunction with solutions
providers to develop complete solutions that achieve an
unprecedented total customer experience. The ActiveScale P100
enables solution providers to easily install solutions and optimize
customer workloads to capture, store, manage, retain and deliver
data for their customers.
The DCS business unit also provides professional StorChoice™
deployment services to help install and implement the ActiveScale
P100 and train solutions providers or company staff to meet
evolving business requirements.
Resources
For more information, technical specifications and use cases on
the ActiveScale P100 system, visit:
http://www.hgst.com/products/systems/activescale-system. A
whitepaper from Enterprise Management Associates titled, “HGST
Maximizes Savings With Object Storage Management Suite” is also
available for download here. Also, register for our webinar on how
to better manage 50% data growth: http://bit.ly/2fA9aB9
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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). 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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