Internet

E-commerce, online marketing, and social networking have transformed the way businesses work today. Information is shared instantaneously, people are connected immediately.

Performance is everything for service providers operating with strict Service Level Agreements. Content delivery networks responsible for streaming media files need to deliver files quickly—users will not tolerate stuttering video clips, pauses for buffering, or site outages. Studies have shown that a Web user’s tolerable waiting time for information retrieval is 2 seconds!

Yet the sheer volume of data stores continues to grow exponentially. The need to capture, share, and retain digital information has given rise to the petabyte data center. It’s not unusual for services providers, especially those that handle high volume applications such as email, to increase their storage volume 10 terabytes each day, the equivalent of the printed collection of the Library of Congress.

Challenges

• The speed with which successful content businesses explode—and the always online nature of content—compounds the challenges of managing a successful data center. Storing and serving large volumes of unstructured data quickly while adding capacity on-demand can severely strain IT operations.
• Traditional storage solutions are prohibitive to deploy and manage and cannot scale on demand. The ability to deploy on commodity hardware in a variety of configurations such as direct or dual-attached storage is key.
• An online service cannot withstand disruptive upgrades. Upgrades should not require large-scale migrations, as this level of disruption in massively scaled storage environments can wreak havoc on applications.
• While meeting SLAs is imperative for content providers, replicating storage in order to achieve throughput requirements is inefficient and costly. To avoid overprovisioning, storage managers need a solution that can be independently scaled to achieve capacity and/or performance requirements.

 IBRIX Fusion is ideally suited for the intensive processing requirements and demanding work. Adding 5 terabytes meant purchasing 40 terabytes of capacity to guarantee sufficient performance—that’s a serious capital expenditure. IBRIX was able to make an immediate impact on our business operations by increasing our throughput performance and scalability at one-eighth the cost of our legacy system.
Chief Technology Officer
Content Delivery Network company

IBRIX Fusion is ideally suited for the intensive processing requirements and demanding workloads of Web-scale environments. Its flexible architecture enables IT to easily build large repositories by adding capacity and components on demand without outages. Its unsurpassed support of high transaction rates can open the I/O floodgates, allowing processors to be fully utilized on production work and accelerating the content pipeline. Open and modular in nature, IBRIX Fusion can be scaled for any size installation to maximize return on infrastructure investments.

• Scale storage capacity up to 16 petabytes of capacity in a single namespace
• Break the performance barrier for both data-intensive applications that require high bandwidth as well as for transactional applications that require high I/O throughput
• Efficiently process huge amounts of large, as well as small files that otherwise would choke traditional NAS file servers
• Reduce time spent managing thousands of disparate islands of storage by allowing the consolidation into a smaller number of large, easy-to-manage namespaces
• Achieve sustainability with a pay-as-you-grow model so businesses pay for upgrades and replacements as needed
• Break through the vendor lock-in barrier by offering a software-based solution that can be installed on commodity hardware