Hadoop-Centric Storage Firm DriveScale Chooses RAID Inc.

DriveScale, Inc. selected RAID Inc. as a strategic partner to expand its big data ecosystem into the HPC market.

This partnership enhances the RAID Inc. portfolio of technical computing and data center infrastructure solutions by adding DriveScale’s Hadoop-centric storage platform to its Ability EBOD (enterprise JBOD) storage solutions, resulting in increased storage scalability and density to Hadoop architectures while at the same time lowering costs.

RAID Inc. demonstrated DriveScale-centric scalable solutions at the HPC community’s event, SC16 Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, November 14-17, 2016.

DriveScale’s scale-out platform, coupled with the RAID Inc. high density Ability EBODs, can cut hardware acquisition costs by more than 60% while quadrupling storage utilization and enable improved scalability for big data workloads. By using the DriveScale scalable architecture, RAID Inc. allows data center managers to implement a scale-out infrastructure and future-proof their underlying data center infrastructure for growing Hadoop workloads.

“Hadoop is a key element of any big data strategy. But enterprises today – without a clear leader in the high-density storage layer – are challenged to deploy the thousands of nodes in data centers they need to manage a massive influx of data,” said Gene Banman, CEO, DriveScale. “Partnering with RAID Inc. allows DriveScale to help solve the rapid growth in storage demand for the Hadoop community. Together, we provide a disaggregated, scale-out and storage-tuned solution that leads to a more efficient data center.“

With DriveScale’s disaggregation and recomposition technology, data center admins can manage compute and storage resources as separate pools by deploying a rapid scale-out ecosystem for independent resource scaling and then flexibly binding together these elements in any ratio an application requires. A DriveScale deployment consists of an integrated combination of software, hardware and cloud-based services that together provide the manageability, flexibility and optimization that are a base requirement of managing scale-out data center operations.

“RAID Inc. is dedicated to expanding and empowering the big data ecosystem with innovative platforms like DriveScale,” said Robert Picardi, CEO, RAID Inc. “We are pleased to introduce the high-density Ability EBOD scale-out solution into the DriveScale community and look forward to working with them to develop the next-generation data infrastructure.“

As unstructured data is generated at volumes, the DriveScale platform leverages the ease of deployment and scale-out design of the high-density Ability EBOD to offer an end-to-end Hadoop-centric storage platform. The Ability EBOD Series is a cost-effective and dense storage products for scale-out solutions. For example, the scalable 4U 84-bay Ability enterprise JBOD provides extensive data capacities up to 840TB per unit (210TB pre-rack U height) with performance capable of handling more than 32GB/s.

With this partnership, RAID Inc. is expanding on its performing legacy with the DriveScale scale-out platform to provide storage-at-scale, unstructured data solutions at a price/GB ratio. DriveScale empowers enterprises with a software-defined storage architecture that delivers a big data platform with simplified storage growth through SAS-connected scalable enterprise JBODs from RAID Inc. This solution is available with engineer-driven guidance and 24×7 concierge support from RAID Inc. to deploy DriveScale platforms for organizations looking to future-proof their infrastructure, maximize data center efficiency and deliver a lower TCO to technical computing customers.