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PLEASE EMBARGO INFORMATION UNTIL JANUARY 20, 2010
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2. StorNext
• Successful track record since 2001 (significant traction in last 3 years)
• Over 4,000 customer installations
• Over 50,000 File System Clients deployed
• Over 400 Archive systems deployed
• Over 100PB under management
• Broad support of OS platforms and storage technologies
• Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac (OS platforms)
• Quantum, Sun/STK, IBM, HP, Dell, Sony, Spectra Logic, Qualstar (Tape technologies)
• Server and disk vendor agnostic
• Utilized throughout rich data content industries
• Broadcast, Cable & CCTV
• Movie and Television Production, Post-Production & Graphics
• Science and Engineering (Oil & Gas research, Satellite imaging)
• High Performance Computing (Life Sciences- genome sequencing)
• Audio and Video Surveillance and Mining
• Government Data Mining projects
• Internet Streaming
• Pre-Press, Digital Printing
• CAD/CAM
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3. StorNext Data Management Software
Overview
• Simplifies data sharing via high-speed Fibre Channel (SAN) and NAS
• Reduces storage costs and complexity by unifying storage tiers
• Preserves choices across operating systems, disk vendors and tape vendors
• Independently scales to thousands of nodes and PBs of data
PRIMARY TIER
FC/iSCSI
SECONDARY TIER
CIFS/NFS StorNext Optional
SAN Clients StorNext
Policy
STORNEXT LAN CLIENTS
FC/iSCSI Engine
GigE TCP/IP
Infiniband IP
TAPE LIBRARY ARCHIVE VAULT
Metadata
Controller
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4. StorNext Data Management Software
StorNext File System
• Heterogeneous shared file system presents pools of storage as local-attached
• Purpose-built for high-performance ingest, distribution and computing environments
• Optional policy engine for file-based replication and near-line deduplication
PRIMARY TIER
FC/iSCSI
SECONDARY TIER
StorNext Optional
SAN Clients StorNext
Policy
FC/iSCSI Engine
Metadata HA MDC
Controller
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5. StorNext Data Management Software
StorNext Storage Manager
• Delivers transparent tiered storage and archive for preservation
• Directory-level policy engine data movement
• Supports disk, NAS, VTL, MAID and tape target devices
PRIMARY TIER
FC/iSCSI
SECONDARY TIER
StorNext Optional
SAN Clients StorNext
Policy
FC/iSCSI Engine
TAPE LIBRARY ARCHIVE VAULT
Metadata
Controller
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6. StorNext Data Management Software
StorNext Distributed LAN Client (DLC) access across the LAN
• Extends collaboration beyond the SAN by supporting thousands nodes
• Highly resilient „clustering‟ via gateway servers
• Load balancing for optimum performance
PRIMARY TIER
SCALES TO THOUSANDS OF STORNEXT DISTRIBUTED LAN CLIENTS
Vendor Agnostic
FC/iSCSI SECONDARY TIER
StorNext DLC Optional
Gateway Servers StorNext
Policy
FC/iSCSI Engine
GigE TCP/IP
Infiniband IP Vendor Agnostic
TAPE LIBRARY ARCHIVE
Metadata
Controller
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7. StorNext 4.0 – Key New Features
Features Benefits
Data Replication Protection and Distribution
File System Deduplication Nearline Storage
Distributed Data Mover Increased SM Performance
Web services-based GUI Improved Usability
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8. StorNext Data Management Software
File-based replication for File System and Storage Manager environments
• File system policy-based for protection, distribution and consolidation
• Supports one-to-one, many-to-one and one-to-many StorNext environments
• Asynchronous host-based IP and FC connectivity
SOURCE TARGET SOURCE TARGET
Remote Office
Remote Office
Remote Office
WAN
WAN
Remote Office
Remote Office
Central Datacenter Central Datacenter
Remote Office
Remote Office
Remote Office
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9. StorNext Data Management Software
File system deduplication
• Policy-based file system deduplication for protection and nearline storage
• Integrated with replication policy engine for flexibility
• Directory-level deduplication based upon time, size and file type
PRIMARY TIER
Vendor Agnostic
FC/iSCSI
SECONDARY TIER
StorNext StorNext
SAN Clients Policy
Engine
Vendor Agnostic
DEDUPLICATED
REPOSITORY
Metadata
Controller
Vendor Agnostic
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10. StorNext Data Management Software
StorNext Storage Manager Distributed Data Mover (DDM)
• Turns Linux SAN clients into Storage Manager data movers
• Improves throughput performance to tiers of storage, especially tape
• Reduces the need for large, high performance Metadata Controller (MDC) servers
PRIMARY TIER
SAN
Client FC/iSCSI
DDM
Server
SECONDARY TIER
FC/iSCSI
StorNext
SAN Clients DDM
Server
FC
with DDMs
MDC &
DDM
FC
TAPE LIBRARY ARCHIVE
DDM
Server
FC
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11. StorNext Data Management Software
Web Services based Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Improved Usability
• 50% Page Reduction vs. v3.x
• More user friendly for reduced complexity
• Advanced configuration wizard simplifies setup and configuration
• Improved Monitoring
• File system operations
• At-a-glance system health status
• At-a-glance capacity utilization
• Improved reporting and graphing capabilities
• Web Services architecture (XML)
• Improved interoperability with 3rd party applications based on web services
architecture
• Platform independent control of Storage Manager environments (Linux, Windows)
• SNAPI support will eventually be replaced by a full Web Services API
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15. StorNext User: Lime Pictures
Media & Entertainment
Key Challenges
Many of the company‟s productions operating with tight deadlines and high frequency of
output. HD brings its own challenges with a four-fold increase in content and bandwidth
requirements.
Project Objectives
• Real time tapeless workflow by filming studio-based material directly onto the Storage
Area Network (SAN)
• Simultaneous workflow: making content available at the same time to all aspects of
production “Reliability and usability
have been transformed
Quantum Solution/Benefits since we deployed the
• Quantum StorNext File System and Storage Manager, Quantum Scalar i2000 tape library digital workflow solution.
We haven‟t experienced
• Get content to air faster and share content more efficiently and cost effectively
any downtime and our
• Effectively store and share content, and deploy the solution into existing workflow productivity has increased
• Transform tapeless workflow reliability and usability significantly. Our confidence
• Establish multi-tier archives, automatically moving data between the disk and in the system has certainly
Scalar i2000 tape resources risen by 100 percent.”
Why Quantum/StorNext -Mike Horan,
• Proven in the market SAN Support Engineer,
• Open architecture provides the flexibility to choose whichever Lime Pictures
technologies desired
• Offers rich acquisition, ingest, and production editing functionality
• Provides resilience and reliability needed
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16. StorNext User: Baylor College of Medicine
HPC – Life Sciences
Key Challenges
Sequencing the 3 billion chemical building blocks that make up the DNA of the 24
different human chromosomes, this research center needed to access, share and
manage hundreds of terabytes of data for analysis at any time.
Project Objectives
• Centrally manage complex heterogeneous environment of servers, networks and
storage technology
• Expand Baylor College‟s Human Genome Sequencing Center‟s data storage capabilities
“By combining high-speed
Quantum Solution/Benefits data sharing and cost-
• Quantum StorNext File System and Storage Manager, Quantum Scalar i2000 tape effective content retention in
library a single solution, StorNext
• Enabled simultaneous access to huge volumes of data without impacting system users has enabled our researchers
• Provided cost-effective content creation through automated data management to access the data they need
quickly and easily and
• Allowed centralized management of heterogeneous environment
eliminated the significant
• Protected prior investments by integrating legacy resources
management overhead we
• Provided scalable foundation to meet anticipated storage growth of up to 20 PB over incurred with our legacy
next 2-3 years
system.”
Why Quantum/StorNext Geraint Morgan
• Reputation in high-performance, multi-petabyte environments Director of Information
• Support for existing storage hardware with no significant investment needed for Systems,
additional hardware Baylor College
• Easy to manage system
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17. StorNext User: CERN
HPC – Science & Engineering
Key Challenges
Collecting and processing large amounts of scientific data from the collision between
billions of particles demands a fast, reliable and scalable IT infrastructure.
Project Objectives
• Manage high-volume scientific data
• High-speed, shared workflow operations
“Data is the most
• Large-scale, multi-tier archiving precious commodity
CERN has. Quantum
Quantum Solution/Benefits StorNext is instrumental
• Quantum StorNext File System in collecting that data
• 20 InfoTrend Fibre Channel, 4 GB/s disk arrays; 80 servers running Linux quickly and reliably,
thereby enabling the
• High-speed, shared workflow operations with quicker file processing
scientific community to
• Processing massive amounts of data (1 PB of data/month) understand and exploit
• Access data quickly and easily on all hosts new ideas and
• Aggregated bandwidth, scalability of the number of client nodes discoveries.”
• Direct access to the Fibre channel correction increasing performance
-Pierre Vande Vyvre,
• Affinity allowing direct data traffic to pre-determined disks (all machines operating
at max performance) Project Leader, CERN
Why Quantum/StorNext
Offered significantly higher performance than competitor because it makes direct use of Fibre Channel connection
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