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Integrating parallel, non-blocking architecture with SAN functionality, S2A Cluster Storage Solution allows organizations to leverage DataDirect Networks as a single vendor to consolidate hardware support. Product delivers up to 100 Gbps aggregate I/O, 2 Gbps client I/O, 11,000 client support, and automated data protection. S2A solution also supports petabytes of storage Fibre Channel or SATA disk storage with InfiniBand/FC-4 storage interconnects and InfiniBand/GigE client communications.
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DataDirect Networks Debuts S2A Cluster Storage Solutions
Fully Integrated Cluster Storage Solutions Designed to Enable the Ease of Installation, Management, Support and Scale of Clusters
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 14 -- DataDirect Networks Inc. today unveiled the industry's highest performing and most dense cluster storage solutions, the S2A Cluster Storage Solutions. The S2A Cluster Storage Solutions are specifically designed for high performance, high capacity network cluster applications and delivers the industry's best price per performance, best price/capacity per square foot solutions.
The S2A Cluster Storage Solution is a turnkey offering based on the industry leading and proven S2A technology, pre-configured and best-of-breed cluster file system software, and S2A Storage Servers. This fully integrated and supported solution is designed as a drop-in solution allowing organizations and businesses to leverage DataDirect Networks (DDN) as a single vendor for consolidate hardware support, reduce maintenance overhead, and reduced integration and support costs.
DataDirect's industry proven Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) technology integrates a parallel, non-blocking architecture with SAN functionality in one simple, easy to use intelligent device. The S2A delivers high performance, highly reliable storage solutions that are easy to install, easy to scale and easy to manage. The S2A's unique architecture and consolidated functionality removes the complexity, congestion, latency and contention of generic RAID systems delivering very high performance with dramatically lower total cost of ownership and improved return on IT investments.
The S2A Cluster Storage Solutions delivers up to 100 GB/s aggregate I/O, enhanced and automated data protection, and petabytes of capacity in a single solution. Backed by a 7th generation architecture and years of cluster storage deployment experience, this turnkey cluster storage solution provides ease of installation, management, support and scale of clusters -- which makes it the industry's most reliable and easiest to use cluster storage solutions.
This optimal block level and file system performance design supports a broad range compute clusters powering compute clusters from IBM, Dell, HP, Cray, SGI, Bull and others. Unique to the S2A Cluster Storage Solutions is the ability to leverage the S2A Parallel Architecture scaling storage clusters aggregate solution I/O up to 100 GB/s, up to 2 GB/s client I/O, and up to 11,000 client support. The S2A Cluster Storage solutions also support petabytes of storage Fibre Channel or SATA disk storage with native InfiniBand and or FC-4 storage interconnects and native InfiniBand or GigE client communications. The S2A Cluster Storage Solutions support a variety of high performance networks and are application and system level tuned with specific industry expertise.
"The S2A Cluster Storage Solutions leverage DDN's experience to reduce complexity of choice for reduced time-to-decision, leverage DDN testing and deployments to ensure interoperability for reduced time-to-deployment, and leverage a common hardware and software platform for increased platform stability, reduced platform cost and increased platform portability," said Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks. "DDN has also taken this a step further with tight integration with InfiniBand, Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric providers making it easy for a customer to introduce a unified cluster architecture that will improve their efficiency by reducing complexity in both deployment and management. The S2A Cluster Storage Solutions with proven- platforms and proven technologies is a testament of our ongoing commitment to providing the best-in-class scalable storage solutions for compute intensive environments."
DataDirect Networks' is showing the S2A Cluster Storage Solutions at Booth 1424.
Supercomputing 2006 is located at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida November 11th to 17th.
About DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks is the world's leading provider of high performance, high capacity network storage solutions. Focused on driving customer-centric innovation, DataDirect Networks has created the Silicon Storage Appliance as the essential building block for High Performance Computing, Internet-based Services and Rich Media storage solutions. DataDirect Networks' award winning Silicon Storage Appliance enables the creation of differentiated high performance, high capacity NAS and SAN storage, parallel and shared file system storage, primary and nearline storage, and virtual tape library storage solutions. Each solution offers unsurpassed performance, high availability, cost effective scalability and simplified management delivering the industry's best price per performance and best per capacity per square foot solutions.
Launched in 1998 and headquartered in California, DataDirect Networks has an established global presence with research and development, and operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, contact DataDirect Networks at (818) 700-7600 or visit www.datadirectnet.com
Source: DataDirect Networks Inc.
CONTACT:
Alex Sayyah
DataDirect Networks Inc.
+1-818-700-7600
asayyah@datadirectnet.com
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