xSTREAMScaler - SAN Storage & HSM System
Extreme Performance and Scalability, Advanced Data Management and NAS Export Capabilities
DataDirect Networks xSTREAMScaler file storage and HSM system, combined with the industry leading throughput of the S2A Extreme Storage, is an ideal choice for heterogeneous environments requiring the very lowest latency data streaming. xSTREAMScaler supports a broad range of server platforms and operating systems, enabling organizations to eliminate islands of storage and centralize data in a single, cost-optimized SAN storage system.
Windows, UNIX, Linux and MAC client operating systems are all supported within the SAN storage environment, tying together disparate systems and providing greater bandwidth via SAN file sharing as compared to network attached storage approaches. Coupled with an optional, automated tiered data management engine, the xSTREAMScaler manages data across performance storage tiers, archive storage tiers and tape systems to reduce data management overhead and reduce capital expense.
Capabilities
- Real-time direct data access and quality of service
- Over 30 Apple Final Cut Pro workstations running uncompressed HD video--from a single platform
- Fault tolerant, ZERO Degraded Mode
- Unrivaled S2A concurrent streaming capability
- Four 4K concurrent streams
- Ten 2K concurrent streams
- Scale multiple systems to increase concurrency
- Automatic HSM reduces data management overhead
- Tiered storage utilizing high-performance enterprise-class drives for priority data along with cost-effective SATA drives for secondary data within the same namespace
- Scalable for performance and capacity
- Advanced management and data protection features
Break Through Limitations
Storage Challenges
Today's traditional systems require you to purchase multiple systems to provide the enormous bandwidth required for streaming data. This creates islands of storage that slow down workflows by creating long wait times to transfer files to the next stage. Deadlines can be missed, frames dropped and valuable billing hours lost. Multiple systems also increase complexity, cost of ownership and risk. Administration, floor space, power, cooling and maintenance agreements can break budgets and bandwidth in a hurry.
The xSTREAMScaler File Storage System
xSTREAMScaler couples high-speed LAN/WAN software, intelligent data management software and high-performance S2A Extreme Storage to deliver real-time, sustained reads and writes through its hardware-based DirectRAID data protection engine. An ideal choice for heterogeneous environments requiring the lowest latency data streaming, xSTREAMScaler supports a broad range of server platforms and operating systems to help organizations eliminate islands of storage and centralize data in a single, cost-optimized storage environment. Coupled with an optional, automatic tiered data management engine, xSTREAMScaler reduces data management overhead and maximizes return on storage investment.
Optimized For:
- Digital Intermediate
- Post-production
- Broadcast and Video-on-Demand
- Media asset management
- Satellite ingest
- Imaging
- Weather
- Remote sensing
- GIS
- Hierarchical storage management and backup
- High-performance computing
- Supercomputing
- Many more...