DENVER,
Nov. 19, 2013
/PRNewswire/ -- Xyratex Ltd (Nasdaq: XRTX), a leading
provider of data storage technology, today announced the newest
member of the ClusterStor family of HPC and Big Data engineered
storage solutions – the ClusterStor 9000. The
ClusterStor 9000 dramatically raises the bar in terms of both
performance and efficiency, delivering up to 50% more performance
in the same rack space compared to previous ClusterStor generations
including currently available 1500 and 6000 models. This market
leading efficiency not only provides improved performance but also
enables customers to benefit from reduced space, power and
administrative costs, up to 60% better than
competitive solutions. The ClusterStor 9000 also
includes a number of significant Reliability, Availability and
Serviceability (RAS) enhancements that improves ease of deployment
and system availability to meet the demands of
business-critical applications in industries such as Oil and Gas,
Financial Services, Genomics, Intelligence, and more. The
ClusterStor 9000 will be available through our
partners in mid 2014.
Since its release in June
2011, ClusterStor solutions have delivered a new standard in
filesystem throughput and storage performance, scalability, and
reliability. The innovative and industry proven ClusterStor
architecture, which consolidates previously separate server,
network components and storage platforms, each with their own
discrete software layers, into a tightly integrated modular
building block known as a scalable storage unit (SSU),
allows customers to linearly scale environment performance
non-disruptively from 9 gigabytes per second (GB/s) to over a 1.5
terabytes per second (TB/s) while
delivering unmatched efficiency in throughput and cost reduction.
This unique architecture is common across the ClusterStor family
and is key to alleviating the storage I/O bottleneck, the common
choke point in HPC systems. The ClusterStor 9000
yields over 60GB/s per rack making it 50% faster than the
ClusterStor 6000, released in 2012. "We believe that while
performance is always going to a key part of what HPC and Big Data
is about, more and more our customers are concerned with the
productivity of their infrastructure. We started out to address the
very real need of breaking the storage I/O bottleneck, as we
identified that legacy systems could simply not meet the
performance demands of ever-growing compute clusters. By delivering
a truly engineered system that harness the world's leading parallel
file system to create a storage solution that is performance
optimized, yet easy to deploy, manage and scale, we firmly
establish ourselves as the storage performance leaders. Now with
the ClusterStor 9000 we are not only dramatically raising the bar
once again in terms of performance efficiency and scalability but
we are also providing a range of productivity tools that enables
greater resiliency to failures at scale both minimizing downtime
and improving ease of management which directly translates into
improved productivity not only of your storage but also your entire
HPC infrastructure investment. Simply put, we are putting the
'Productivity' into HPC Storage,'' said Ken
Claffey, senior vice president & general manager of the
ClusterStor business at Xyratex.
"With the industry's emphasis on scalable systems for Big
Data, a lot of companies are coming out with claims of faster I/O
performance. What's noteworthy about the
Xyratex ClusterStor
9000 announcement is that it goes beyond a dramatic
generational improvement in performance and scalability to discuss
how that performance can be used effectively to streamline an
enterprise's existing workflow," said Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect 360
Research.
"The acceptance and adoption of ClusterStor since its
market introduction is a testament to the experience and stability
that comes with a solution provider such as Xyratex," said
Earl Joseph, IDC program vice
president for HPC. "With the release of the CIFS/NFS Gateway, we
expect further market acceptance given that the Gateway aims to
open avenues to Windows and Linux environments that were previously
unavailable for the Lustre®
file system."
With the addition of the ClusterStor
9000, comes the availability of the following performance
features and RAS enhancements to the ClusterStor platform and
operating system:
- ClusterStor Grid RAID – this parity
declustered RAID feature addition delivers up to 400% faster drive
rebuild time to repair times needed to maintain peak performance
while supporting the latest high capacity drives.
- ClusterStor Data Integrity Enhancements
– these added enhancements of T10 Data Integrity Field (DIF)
Type 2 standards provide HPC and Technical Computing users reliable
protection of their most valuable asset – their data. Unique to
ClusterStor is the ability to include data integrity checking from
object storage server HBA to disk drives and hardware assisted
cyclic redundancy check (CRC) acceleration providing added
resiliency to the file system and improved silent data corruption
detection and correction.
- ClusterStor Manager –
the new version of this standard ClusterStor feature includes
the upgrade of a new dashboard displaying the physical
configuration and status health of an entire HPC user's storage
system. This data allows for seamlessly integration with other data
center management tools providing visibility and management of the
ClusterStor solution.
The following new ClusterStor features address the
productivity challenges of managing multiple file types and
consolidating application workflows with increased efficiency as
well as reducing operational and hardware costs:
- ClusterStor Flash Accelerator – this
feature transparently streamlines small file and large file
IO workloads through application consolidation eliminating
the need to separate storage systems thereby reducing Capex and
Opex, reduces management cost and complexity, provides linear
scalability and includes I/O profiling monitoring and definable
policy tools.
- ClusterStor CIFS / NFS Gateway – this
gateway feature provides Windows and Linux client access into
the ClusterStor Lustre®
file system and enables heterogeneous file sharing across a
single storage pool spanning entry level up to high capacity data
storage.
- Lustre® Version 2.5
Enhancements – Xyratex integrates available
enhancements of this recently released Lustre version into
ClusterStor that includes multiple new features such as
Hierarchal Storage Management (HSM) allowing data transfer
between different storage platform types and facilitating data
lifecycle management.
Learn more about the ClusterStor 9000 at the Xyratex booth
#2107 at the 25th annual Supercomputing Conference 2013
in Denver, Colorado from
November 17 to 22.
About Xyratex
Xyratex is a leading provider of data storage technology, including
modular solutions for the enterprise data storage industry and hard
disk drive (HDD) capital equipment for the HDD industry. Xyratex
enterprise data storage platforms provide a range of advanced,
scalable data storage solutions for the Original Equipment
Manufacturer and High Performance Computing communities. As the
largest capital equipment supplier to the HDD industry, Xyratex
enables disk drive manufacturers and their component suppliers to
meet today's technology and productivity requirements. Xyratex has
over 25 years of experience in research and development relating to
disk drives, storage systems and manufacturing process technology.
Founded in 1994 in an MBO from IBM, and with headquarters in the
United Kingdom, Xyratex has an
established global base with R&D and operational facilities in
North America, Asia and Europe.
*Lustre is a registered trademark of Xyratex
Technology, Ltd., in the United
States.
SOURCE Xyratex Ltd.