GRIDScaler Delivers Game Changing Data Center Performance and Flexibility

GRIDScaler appliances support modern IT initiatives by fulfilling the needs of next-generation big data and traditional applications which require high-performance, security, reliability, and comprehensive data management.

By leveraging a single platform to serve file (NFS/SMB/PFS), cloud (S3/Swift/Cinder), and analytics (Hadoop) demands, GRIDScaler enables customers to greatly simplify their IT infrastructure. With data management interfaces to cloud (S3/DDN WOS), GRIDScaler also makes it easier to consume on-demand storage as a secondary tier. All of this functionality is provided at a much lower cost than traditional storage arrays.

Hybrid Architecture Improves TCO and Takes Advantage Of New Technologies

Grow a GRIDScaler appliance with all-SSD, SSD-accelerated or all HDD options. Mix and match the right storage media for your workloads and independently scale out or up to create the right sized building blocks for your environment with complete cost control.

Start with a small system and grow performance and/or capacity for a data storage infrastructure that has fewer systems to manage, lower power, heating and cooling requirements and much a smaller data center footprint..

DDN Unique Software-Defined Capabilities Deliver Optimal Utilization

SFA Declustered RAID (DCR) significantly improves rebuild performance by increasing the pool of disks which participate in backing a redundancy group, allowing reading and writing to many times the RAID member count (eg 10 disks in 8+2). DCR allows for the striping of data across a much larger set of physical disks than was previously available in traditional RAID and greatly increasing the parallelism of drive rebuilds. It is this parallel process that enables rebuilds to run much faster than traditional RAID. In addition to decreasing recovery times, DCR can also result in increased storage efficiency and higher IOPs performance.