Gwangmyeong City Hall (Seoul Metropolitan Area) Prolongs Raidix Storage License

The City Hall of Gwangmyeong (South Korea) contracted another premium support license from the storage vendor Raidix, LLC and its Korean partner ITServices.

The city deploys 200+ HD cameras for public security and traffic safety purposes and continuously extends overall coverage and its video surveillance environment. Data received from the cameras is streamed to multiple media servers at the data center and forwarded to two ATTO switches linked via 8Gb FC and running the Raidix management software.

Gwangmyeong is a city in Gyeonggi Province housing a population of just under 500,000 people and running an urban infrastructure, transport system and retail/wholesale facilities including the world’s largest IKEA store. Developing the CCTV network in line with the growing requirements, Gwangmyeong City Hall was facing substantial storage challenges in terms of scale, performance and TCO.

In the view of transition from older video formats to HD, it was hesitating over adding more storage racks or employing costly enterprise arrays – when Raidix’s partner ITServices came up with a better value proposition.

Raidix-powered resilient storage solution delivered two major points:

• Higher density and hardware savings: JBOD 4U60 instead of JBOD 2U12, 7U instead of A RACK (22U+)
• Direct FC connection with no switch required.
  

At the core of the storage system sits the Raidix software engine. It manages storage clusters and delivers advanced functionality to ensure optimal IO/s and throughput, fault-tolerance and universal compatibility with standard hardware. The solution supports shared SAN and scale-out NAS and major interfaces like FC, iSCSI, and IB. As part of the solution, the Raidix architecture encompasses two HA controllers working in active/active mode.

The Raidix storage appliance connects to a JBOD that houses 60 disks and consolidates 244TB capacity in a single rack. While the majority of RAID controllers operate with either 16 or 32 disks, the Raidix technology supports up to 64 drives and survives failure of three disks in the same RAID-group (patented RAID 7.3 level) or up to 32 disks in the array (patented RAID N+M).

Data integrity ensured by the triple-parity RAID helps Gwangmyeong reinforce public safety and traffic regulations. Continuous local tech support preserves the peace of mind for the customer’s IT service and brings along the benefits of up-to-date storage technology.

Raidix enables elastic cost-efficient scalability – a feature most valued by Gwangmyeong’s IT Dept. planning to enhance their CCTV coverage and the number of cameras by a factor of three in the coming years.