Sans Digital Rolling Out Scala Storage

Sans Digital, Inc., provider of high performance storage subsystems, announced Scala Storage, a scalable storage system intended for high concurrency computing and big data applications.

Scala Storage’s unlimited scalability and high availability architecture allows businesses to scale out in capacity and performance in single panes of glass management interface from hundreds terabytes to hundreds of petabytes. Based on object based structures, Scala Storage provides unstructured data and big data a solution to fit a business’ demand of flexible yet high performance storage.

Scala Storage is suitable for industries including oil and energy, media editing, HPC/ supercomputing, online cloud storage industries, backup and archiving services, virtual environments and more.

Recent studies show that data is to exceed 40ZB in the coming years. More than 70% of all data is unstructured, making traditional storage technologies no longer feasible solutions. Scala Storage Scale Out Storage System is designed to fulfill this need: a storage systems that scales out in capacity and performance, with HA and easy management. It has been developed as object storage based, where problems with traditional DAS, NAS SAN and RAID’s issues of management, performance and downtime no longer exist. Designed with scalability in term of capacity and performance in mind, it overcomes these challenges, as performance aggregated and capacity expand in the same namespace with each storage node added: while maintaining no single point of failure and an easy to use Web based management interface.

The key to all Scala Storage Systems is ScalaFS, a file system that is POSIX compatible. Windows, Linux or Mac application servers can easily connect, share and collaborate in minutes under the same global namespace. ScalaFS built-in proactive failure detection and auto self-healing provides a high redundancy system to minimize any unnecessary downtime, while eliminating other file system issues of limited file size, count or file system performance.

In terms of deployment, Scala Storage Scale Out Storage Solutions is an all-in-one solution to rapidly growing data. A starter package will consist of a 144TB raw data with 1.5GB/s, with unlimited client connections. Each additional 2U storage node will increase capacity and performance linearly with no set limitation. Starter systems are in 9U form factors and are ready to use in production environment in less than 30 minutes.

“It is clear that traditional storage products are no longer able keep up with today’s demand for data storage systems. Limited flexibility and performance do not allow today’s computer technologies to perform at their peak,” said by Grandy Chen, president, Sans Digital. “Scale out storage can resolve today’s bottlenecking problem and Scala Storage is in a position to provide not only performance, but also the best return in your investment.”

Scala Storage Scale Out System is available. Starter kits at 144TB or 216TB at 9U sizes are ready to deploy from the company’s factory.