DDN | GRIDScaler™

Competitive Edge Archive & Distribution

With over 4PBs of mission critical cancer and disease research, The National Institutes of Health selects GRIDScaler to accelerate time to discovery.

DDN | GRIDScaler™

Extremely Scalable Archive & Distribution

With the GRIDScaler file storage system, YouSendIt is now able to support over 300,000 new file uploads per day.

DDN | GRIDScaler™

Dynamically Scalable Life Sciences Research Infrastructure

GRIDScaler enables Ion Torrent to manage 10x the sequencing throughput and grow over 1000%.

DDN | GRIDScaler™

Internet Scale Improving Web Experience & Manageability

Family Search relies on GRIDScaler to digitize 2,000 images per second & manage over 1 billion images totaling 50PBs.

DDN | GRIDScaler™

Competitive Edge Financial Services Modeling

GRIDScaler, with full InfiniBand support, increased Schonfeld's responsiveness by 10x, enabling better decisions and higher profits.

Contact DDN Sales
 
Please fill out the form below, email sales@ddn.com, or call toll-free at 1.800.837.2298 or international at 1.818.700.7600.

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  • Brochure | GRIDScaler™

    Parallel File Storage Appliance. The massively scalable parallel file system and NAS solution.

  • Brochure | EXAScaler™

    Parallel File Storage Appliance. The massively scalable parallel file system and NAS solution.

  • Brochure | SFA™12K-20E

    No external servers. The file system lives right inside of the world's fastest storage controller.

  • Brochure | DirectMon™ Management

    Advanced configuration & monitoring solution to simplify management and optimize IT operations.

  • Brochure | SFA™12K Storage Engine

    Largest building block option with the highest performance & capacity storage.

  • Brochure | SFA™10K-M Storage Engine

    Scalable performance & capacity storage option. Start small & scale as requirements grow

  • Brochure | ScalerServer

    Pre-configured, Optimized, Fully Integrated

  • Brochure | S2A6620™ Storage Engine

    Smallest, most affordable storage building block option.

  • Intersect 360: DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing

    Whitepaper | Oil & Gas

    Intersect 360: DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing

  • Whitepaper | Accelerating Collaboration for Life Science

  • Financial Services Solution Brief

    Solution Brief | Financial Services

    Accelerate financial analytics with high performance DDN Storage.

  • Analyst Report | Taneja Group

    5 Key Questions for Big Data Storage Strategies and Comprehensive Answers from DDN GRIDScaler

  • Solution Brief | Academia

    Cutting-edge research initiatives benefit from highperformance, scalable and collaborative storage solutions from DDN.

  • Solution Brief | Financial Analysis

    GRIDScaler accelerates tick data & simulations.

  • BioPharma Solution Brief

    Solution Brief | BioPharma

    Eliminate bottlenecks & speed time to results

  • Solution Brief | Genomics

    High Performance, Highly Scalable Solutions that Accelerate Time to Discovery & Simplify Your Workflow

  • Intersect 360: DDN Solutions for Seismic Processing
  • Financial Services Solution Brief
  • BioPharma Solution Brief
  • DDN | Chalk Talk: DirectMon

    DDN Product Marketing provides an architectural review of DirectMon, our new Big Data infrastructure management tool.

  • DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at SC12

    Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company's high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.

  • Fast Data Webinar

    Introducing the SFA12K, the world's fastest storage & compute platform for Big Data

  • Accelerating Results for Financial Services Webinar

    Storage is a major factor in time to results. Learn how to accelerate and gain competitive advantage.

  • GRIDScaler™

    Extreme performance and scalability, advanced data management and NAS export capabilities...

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    hScaler

    The World's First Enterprise Apache™ Hadoop® Appliance

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    EXAScaler™

    Providing pure performance and massive scalability for HPC applications...

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    Professional Media file storage and HSM system...

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    The scale right enterprise file storage solution...

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  • SFA12K™-40

    40GB/s InfiniBand Storage Appliance

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    Serverless File Storage Appliance

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    20GB/s InfiniBand Storage Appliance

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    Fusing unprecedented IOPS and bandwidth performance with highly efficient capacity management, the SFA10K-X is designed ...

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    Revolutionizing the way data centers architect their IT infrastructure, the SFA10K-E is the...

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    Today, both the number and types of organizations using HPC and analytics applications is rapidly growing...

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    The Hybrid Flash Storage Appliance with Application-Acceleration to Maximize Big Data Insights

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    What will you do in 4U? Providing DDN's legendary multiples of performance, capacity and reliability...

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    WOS allows organizations to easily build and deploy their own storage clouds...

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    Distributed users collaborate at local speeds using NAS protocols.

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  • WOS® Cloud

    Turn-key solutions for providing storage-as-a-service.
     

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  • WOS® Share

    Behind your firewall enterprise file sharing, transfer & collaboration.

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  • hScaler
  • EXAScaler™

DDN | GRIDScaler™ Parallel File System

Massively Scalable Parallel File System and NAS Solution

The rapid increase in data creation, driven by the proliferation of digital content and machine generated data has created significant challenges for IT managers. Today, growing capacity or performance means selecting either scale-up or scale-out approaches that usually result in over provisioning, and are costly and inefficient at scale. This limited choice results in overhead associated with managing either multiple islands of storage or inefficient budgetary spend, leading to lower returns on investment.

Leveraging over a decade of leadership in the highest end of Big Data, GRIDScaler is designed to handle the diverse and dynamic demands of today's massive unstructured data generators. It is an extremely versatile solution that can be configured as a parallel file system as well as a Network Attached Storage solutions based on the customer's requirements. With scalable data and metadata technology, the GRIDScaler platform eliminates all bottlenecks to achieve true parallelism and maximum application performance.

Applications

  • Supercomputing Maximizes Return on Investment by ensuring clusters spend more time computing and less time doing IO
  • Research Universities Handles multi-researcher mixed workload to reduce research cycle times and get the highest performance per $
  • Oil & Gas Shortens "time To oil" by accelerating seismic processing algorithms
  • Financial Services Market Modeling - Accelerates computation of quantitative
    models to make...
  • BioPharma Accelerates development pipeline and reduces time to market for new drugs
  • Life Sciences Accelerates sequencing, research
    and reduces time to discovery...
  • Cloud and Internet Content Reduces OPEX and CAPEX with
    world leading energy and data center efficiency, enabling ...
  • Tier 2/3/4 Reduces TCO and maximizes storage utilization by storing data on the right medium based on business needs
  • Scalable Building Block Architecture

    • Allows seamless & simple expansion on demand:
      • Individually scale performance by adding GRIDScaler file serving nodes
      • Individually scale capacity by adding DDN high density disk enclosures
    • Online provisioning – shrink and grow file systems to suit your requirements:
      • Capacity Balance as you add storage to spread data and remove bottlenecks
    • Build a solution based on your budget – optimized and predictable TCO
  • Flexible Data Access Options

    Supports two ways to Access Data

    • Highly Available NAS for industry standard access:
      • Clustered NFS access
      • CIFS server access
    • Intelligent parallel File system clients for Windows and Linux:
      • Designed for highly concurrent File/Directory access with massive parallelism
      • Accelerate application performance by striping data across multiple enclosures and accessing them in parallel
      • Read/Write in parallel – up to 4GB/sec per client and scale out to thousands of clients
      • Automatically load balance across all resources
      • Scale from10s to 10,000s of clients
      • Support for RDMA communication & large packets – makes best use of high performance networks!
  • Multi-Tiered Namespace

    • Supports a policy based Hierarchical Storage Manager for Information Lifecycle Management:
      • Build tiers of SSD, SATA and SAS to optimize storage utilization
      • Automatically migrate data between different tiers of storage based on policies
      • Seamless integration with Tivoli Storage Manager™ (TSM) to migrate data to and from Tape
    • Online/Nearline/Archive/Backup:
      • All data is instantly accessible & managed from a single namespace
  • Integration with Web Object Scaler (WOS) from DDN

    • Collaborate between geographically distributed teams and business partners by seamlessly migrating data to and from GRIDScaler to WOS
    • Run simulations on GRIDScaler and replicate results to remote sites using WOS
    • Ingest using WOS access (NFS and CIFS) from multiple locations and then run simulations on a centralized GRIDScaler cluster
    • Back up files safely to the WOS cloud for disaster recovery
  • Multi Level Data Protection

    • Policy-driven snapshots protect against accidental deletion, corruption or viruses
    • Synchronously replicated data and metadata adds reliability and improves performance
    • Flexible RAID configurations provide parity protection against disk failures
    • Integrated backup (with Tivoli Storage Manager) uses an optimized journal to efficiently backup changed data
    • DirectProtect increases data resiliency and reliability by automatically detecting and correcting silent data corruption
  • DirectMon

    Centralized configuration and monitoring solution

    • Manage multiple GRIDScaler systems from a single point
    • Top down support for both the file system as well as the storage arrays
    • Discover new systems, collect information, setup, add and configure complete systems
    • Monitor alerts and get statistics & historical trends
    • Create roles and additional users, and assign appropriate levels of authorizations to fit your organizations hierarchy
  • Application Readiness

    Seamless access using NAS protocols for Industry Standard Access as well as Parallel Clients for up to 300% added performance boost

  • Industry Leading Performance

    Performance beyond 200 GB/sec and 10,000s of file operations per second

  • Pay as You Grow

    Efficient, modular scalability to handle tomorrow's unpredictable growth

  • Integrated Lifecycle Management

    Hierarchical Storage Manager to move data between Online/Nearline/Backup/Archive tiers, all within the same namespace

  • Efficiency at Scale

    Get up to 80% efficiency from storage at scale to lower TCO

  • Industry leading Scale

    Start small and scale to hundreds of PBs in a single system

  • Intelligent Data Protection & Management

    Flexible RAID, Quotas, Snapshots, Replicated Volumes and Defragmentation Tools

  • Industry Leading Density

    Lower TCO with Leading Rack, Energy and Disk Performance Efficiency

  • Integrated Backup

    Intelligent journaling identifies changed files for backup up to reduce the load on metadata server

  • Ready to Deploy

    Fully configured turnkey appliance that plugs seamlessly into the existing infrastructure

Scale Performance & Capacity Independently Eliminates overprovisioning, reducing complexity & TCO.

DDN | DirectMon™

Enables you to manage one or dozens of DDN systems from a single point.

SCALE YOUR ENVIRONMENT FOR BIG DATA GROWTH IN 3 DIFFERENT INCREMENTS

 

DDN | Massively Scalable & Flexible Configurations

We will help you select the right scalable building block that meets your application requirements, data growth & budget.

Modular

Mid-Range

Highest Performance

Each building block provides:
Bandwidth 2GB/s 6GB/s 40GB/s
IOPS 330,000 1 Million 1.4 Million
Capacity up to: 480TB up to: 720TB up to: 6.6PB
Hard Drives 120 180 1,680

DDN's Hyperscale platform allows you to scale performance beyond 1TB/s & capacity into 100s of Petabytes with the fewest systems.

DDN | In-Storage Processing™

The SFA10K-M & SFA12K configurations provide a server-less option, where the file system is embedded right inside the storage controller.

Advantages

  • Consolidates Hardware
  • Simplifies Management
  • Reduces TCO

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 a GRIDScaler solution that fits your needs and budget.

OEM System Providers The world's largest technology companies provide DDN Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

Resellers and Integrators Specialized VARs and System Integrators provide DDN Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

Contact sales@ddn.com and we will work with you to understand your needs and determine the best source.

Contact DDN Sales Please fill out the form below, email sales@ddn.com or call toll-free at 1.800.837.2298 or International at 1.818.700.7600


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The Challenge:

Traditional NAS solutions limited market modeling, slowed algorithm enhancement and reduced competitiveness.

The Solution:

DDN delivered a full GRIDScaler solution, with full InfiniBand support, to increase responsiveness by 10x, enable better modeling and higher profits.

The Challenge:

Across the NIH campus, various research organizations were challenged with deploying the right amount of performance and capacity to their organizations.

The Solution:

DDN deployed over 4 Petabytes of GRIDScaler and Direct-Attached solutions to several divisions of the NIH who depend on DDN mission-critical offerings to support their daily cancer and disease research.

The Challenge

Urgently required an extremely scalable and high performing storage platform that could seamlessly grow to support the archive and distribution requirements from over 300,000 file new file uploads per day.

The Solution

A petabyte-scale GRIDScaler SFA10K solution was selected to deliver the performance required by 10,000s of large scale transfers per hour and the scalability to meet anything tomorrow presents their high-growth business.

The Challenge

Deploy a dynamically-scalable solution to manage 10x the sequencing throughput as compared to other state-of-the-art sequencing systems.

The Solution

ION Torrent purchased GRIDScaler to serve as their research data infrastructure with the capability to grow over 1000% in the future.

The Challenge

Needed a scalable storage platform to digitize 50 PBs of Genealogy Records in the form of 1 Billion images that had to be scanned at the rate of 2,000 images per second.

The Solution

Deployed a GRIDScaler solution that allowed FAMILYSEARCH to scale their business to any level – current and into the future while simultaneously increasing customer satisfaction by improving image load time and enhancing user experience.

DDN has long been a partner of choice for organizations that need to scale far beyond conventional file system limits. DDN continues to
reaffirm its position at the vanguard of the scalable systems marketplace, and therefore as one of the storage leaders of the contemporary Big
Data era.  

— Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group