
Accelerate workflows, collaborate and run multiple applications and data streams simultaneously. Delivering guaranteed quality of service, enormous bandwidth for throughput-intensive applications and highly efficient capacity management; this is the storage foundation for content creation and digital archives.
Unstructured data is a different animal. Creating, distributing and archiving digital content requires lots of streaming bandwidth performance, uninterrupted service and a simple, cost-effective way to scale and manage capacity.
Proven at scale for over eight generations, the S2A9900 is the gold standard in the world's most content-intensive environments.
Proven for over a decade in global deployments, Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) is a purpose-built storage platform designed to solve the data infrastructure problems that others simply can't. Recipient of multiple awards, including Frost & Sullivan's Digital Media Storage Innovation of the Year and HPC Wire's Best Product and Technology of the Year, the S2A9900 is designed to thrive in throughput-intensive environments, with scalable capacity unrivaled in the industry.
The S2A9900 enables clients to run multiple applications simultaneously in parallel (whereas other systems only can run applications sequentially) saving you more time, money and management personnel. Each system cost-effectively provides the highest levels of performance and capacity, managing 3.6PB in only two floor tiles and delivers sustained, real-time throughput of up to 6GB/s for both writes and reads. Gain the performance and capacity headroom to scale, as bandwidth and files continue to grow, while providing real-time data integrity checking, error correction and intelligent drive failure recovery without degrading performance.
The state machine architecture and advanced software capabilities enable users to be more agile, effectively manage the explosion of unstructured data and deploy a centralized information storage infrastructure.
Increase productivity with leading in-class performance that removes storage bottlenecks
Enables more applications to thrive on a single system with the support of high performance and high capacity drive types
Reduce floor space, management, power and cooling by collapsing multiple systems into an ultra-dense, highly efficient platform
Housing 60 drives in just 4U enables your data center to scale growth much more cost and space efficiently than other commercial or white-box solutions
Actively prevents data corruption, as data integrity is verified and corrected in real-time on every read & write - without compromising performance in any way.
Seamlessly integrates into new or existing infrastructures, powerful Web based GUI, CLI, SNMP and email alert options provide for simple, flexible administration
In just two racks, a single system scales to:
Aggregate multiple systems and scale beyond:
According to IDC, data is poised to grow 40x over the next 10 years. How will you stay ahead of the demand?
Deploying S2A9900 means the fewest number of systems to buy, support, power and manage as you scale your environment to multiple petabytes.
How to Buy DDN Storage Systems & Solutions are available through a variety of channels:
Direct DDN's Worldwide Presales Team of Account Managers and Systems Engineers will assess your business objectives and technical requirements and prescribe the right size storage to fit your needs and budget.
OEM System Providers The world's largest technology companies provide S2A Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.
Resellers and Integrators Specialized VARs and System Integrators provide S2A Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.
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