About WOS

DDN | WOS

Big Data Cloud & Object Storage, Made Mainstream

Big Data Challenges

Today, organizations face many challenges relating to Big Data. Data is growing at a rate of 10X every 5 years and traditional file systems & storage architectures limit performance, massive scalability and increase management complexity & cost. In addition, many users need to collaborate across geographies and have their files accessible on multiple devices, while organizations struggle to secure their information and enforce corporate IT policies.

What is WOS?

Web Object Scaler (WOS) is a turnkey appliance, built upon a cloud & object storage foundation, that addresses both the massively scalable requirements of Big Data and the ability to provide secure collaboration, file sharing and content distribution to your users. WOS is true object storage, from the API to the disk head with no underlying file system to degrade performance and efficiency, giving WOS a sustained foundational advantage vs. all other object storage systems.

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Big Data Cloud & Object Storage, Made Mainstream

WOS Cloud Storage

Your organization's data is valuable. Protect it and eliminate the need for employees to store, share and transfer files on third party public storage. WOS allows organizations to easily build and deploy their own storage clouds across geographically distributed sites that can scale to unprecedented levels while still being managed as a single entity. This turn-key solution enables:

• Policy-driven, any device access – so users can increase productivity, securely
• Globally distributed researchers to accelerate time-to-discovery with near real-time access to source data
• Media companies to share dailies, accelerate distributed workflows or distribute content
• Service Providers to offer high performance, low TCO multi-tenant storage services

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DDN | WOS

Big Data Cloud & Object Storage, Made Mainstream

WOS Object Storage

Big Data is driving an entirely new set of requirements. Managing billions of objects and vast quantities of machine generated data break traditional POSIX file systems, storage architectures and bring performance to a crawl. WOS has taken object storage mainstream and is proven and in-production in many of the world’s most data-intensive sites.

WOS delivers performance through simplicity with none of the constructs of traditional file-based storage systems. WOS can read an object with a single disk operation, reducing latency by an order of magnitude vs. competitive systems. This results in greater data ingest capabilities, faster application response fewer nodes to obtain equivalent performance compared to competitive systems.

This distributed, peer-to-peer architecture delivers performance, efficiency, density and appliance simplicity for lower operational costs in a wide variety of Big Data uses cases and workflows. With no underlying file system overhead, WOS stores objects with 99% disk utilization, compared to 60-80% on competitive systems with underlying file systems. WOS ObjectAssure erasure coded data protection stores data with only 1.25 (25%) overhead.

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