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Object Storage
Object Storage
See how object storage is helping data-driven enterprises manage, scale, and protect their most valuable data.
Gain Insights, Extract Value, and Improve Business Outcomes
Companies today strive to treat data as a business asset that enables valuable insights and improves their competitive position. But unlocking value requires overcoming the challenges of managing, scaling, protecting, and analyzing massive amounts of unstructured file and object data.
ActiveScale™ addresses these challenges with an integrated system that is built on an exabyte-scale architecture and designed to get you up and running quickly. This architectural design provides the foundation to help you store data forever and extract more value from it.
Object Storage Use Cases
In a diverse range of industries spanning media and entertainment, genomics and life sciences, autonomous vehicle research, and other forms of scientific research, ActiveScale object storage serves a number of use cases for:
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC)
Sensors, satellites, medical instruments, video devices, and computer simulators create extreme amounts of data, which can be stored in durable, forever archives, enabling researchers and engineers to move seamlessly from raw data to analysis to actionable insights.
MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Genomics sequencing, life sciences, and other types of scientific research generate a massive amount of data that must be processed, stored, and analyzed.
MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION
Movie studios and broadcasters require high-performance ingesting, editing, processing, and rendering of video files. Object storage enables seamless access to content for ongoing repurposing and long-term storage in a durable repository.
ENTERPRISE ARCHIVING AND LONG-TERM RETENTION
Enterprise IT departments are looking to object storage as a long-term content repository, which has the flexibility to store all unstructured data – billions of files and objects – in a single consolidated system.
VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
Object storage is also used as an archive tier for multi-petabyte surveillance infrastructure. Video is typically captured and recorded on higher-performance servers, then stored in a durable, forever archive.
DATA PROTECTION
Critical data can be stored in large-scale backups, long-term data archives, and as 3-geo configurations for cost-effective data protection and disaster recovery.
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Featured Products & Benefits
ActiveScale P100
Our lowest-cost-of-entry system that scales to 27 PB (raw).
ActiveScale X100
Our hybrid cloud solution that scales to over 74 PB (raw).
Massively Scalable
Store, manage, and analyze billions of objects, and over 74 PB of capacity.
Highest Data Durability
ActiveScale object storage offers up to 19 nines of data durability using patented erasure coding protection technologies.
Best-in-Class Performance
Delivers up to 75 GB/sec* projected throughput in scale-out configurations.
*Performance may vary based on network conditions, system configuration, workload, and other factors.
Simplest to Deploy and Manage
Pre-configured systems speed implementation, while software architecture enables system administrators to manage billions of objects and petabytes of capacity in a single system.
P100 Specifications
| Base Configuration | Scale-up Module | Standard (Base+2 Scale-up Modules) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity1 | |||
| Configuration capacity (raw) | 1,008 TB | 1,008 TB | 3.02 PB |
| Maximum multi-part object size | 50 TB | ||
| Software | |||
| Operating system software | ActiveScale OS 5.x | ||
| Management interfaces | Real-time System Management Console, CLI, RESTful API | ||
| System analytics | ActiveScale CM, a cloud-based storage analytics service | ||
| Security | Data encryption in flight SSL/TLS using AES-256, Data encryption at rest (AES-256) | ||
| Data protection | BitSpread: Advanced Erasure Coding and Dynamic Data Placement | ||
| SW/FW upgrades | Non-disruptive rolling upgrades | ||
| Characteristics | |||
| Performance | Client throughput performance up to 6 GB/sec | ||
| Data durability | Up to 19 nines | ||
| Connectivity | |||
| Protocols | RESTful S3 | ||
| Client connectivity | 60 Gbps/base (6x10 Gb/sec) | ||
| Physical size2 | |||
| Rack space requirements (rack units) | 12RU | 6RU | 24RU |
| Configuration weight (kg/lbs) | 274 kg/605 lbs | 191 kg/421 lbs | 656 kg/1,447 lbs |
| Power | |||
| Power consumption – typical/max (W) | 1.85/2.03 KW | 1.38/1.51 KW | 4.61/5.08 KW |
| Power consumption – typical/max (KVA) | 1.89/2.06 KVA | 1.39/1.53 KVA | 4.67/5.12 KVA |
| Power characteristics | 208-240 V, single-phase or three-phase with redundancy and intelligent power | ||
| Environmental2 | |||
| Cooling | Redundant high-efficiency fans | ||
| Temperature range – operating | 5 °C to 35 °C | ||
| Temperature range – non-operating | -40 °C to 65 °C | ||
| Humidity | 8% to 90% (non-condensing) | ||
| Compliance | FCC/ICES-003, CE, VCCI, CISPR 22, CISPR 24, KN22, KN24, EN60950-1 2nd edition, UL60950-1 2nd edition | ||
| BTUs/hr (typical/max) | 6.31/6.92 K BTU/h | 4.70/5.15 K BTU/h | 15.71/17.22 K BTU/h |
| Carbon footprint (max) | 0.001 Metric Tons | 0.001 Metric Tons | 0.003 Metric Tons |
1One MB is equal to one million bytes, one GB is equal to one billion bytes, one TB equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes) and one PB equals 1,000 TB when referring to storage capacity. Usable capacity will vary from the raw capacity due to object storage methodologies and other factors.
2Rack not included, customer must supply rack and PDU.
X100 Specifications
| Base Configuration | Scale-up Module | Standard (Base+6 Scale-up Modules) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity1 | |||
| Configuration capacity (raw) | 1,176 TB | 1,176 TB | 8,232 TB |
| Maximum multi-part object size | 50 TB | ||
| Software | |||
| Operating system software | ActiveScale OS 5.x | ||
| Management interfaces | Real-time System Management Console, CLI, RESTful API | ||
| System analytics | ActiveScale CM, a cloud-based storage analytics service | ||
| Security | Data encryption in flight SSL/TLS using AES-256, Data encryption at rest using AES-256 | ||
| Data protection | BitSpread: Advanced Rateless Erasure Coding + Dynamic Data Placement | ||
| SW/FW upgrades | Non-disruptive rolling upgrades | ||
| Characteristics | |||
| Performance | Client throughput performance up to 8 GB/sec | ||
| Data durability | Up to 19 nines | ||
| Connectivity | |||
| Protocols | RESTful S3 | ||
| Client connectivity | 60 Gbps/base (6x10 Gb/sec) | ||
| Physical size | |||
| Rack dimensions (mm/in) | 2060 x 600 x 1200 mm (81 x 23.6 x 52.6 in) | ||
| Configuration weight (kg/lbs) | 713 kg/1,572 lbs | 1,010 kg/2,457 lbs | |
| Power | |||
| Power consumption – typical/max (W) | 2.45/3.72 KW | 0.65 KW | 6.37/7.45 KW |
| Power consumption – typical/max (KVA) | 2.5/3.8 KVA | 0.67 KVA | 6.5/7.6 KVA |
| Power characteristics | 208-240 V, single-phase or three-phase with redundancy and intelligent power | ||
| Environmental | |||
| Cooling | Redundant high-efficiency fans | ||
| Temperature range – operating (C, F) |
10 °C to 35 °C (50 °F to 95 °F) derated 1 °C per 300 m over 960 m altitude increase | ||
| Temperature range – non-operating | -40 °C to 66 °C (-40 °F to 151 °F) derated 1 °C per 300 m over 3,000 m altitude increase | ||
| Humidity | 8% to 90% (non-condensing) | ||
| Compliance | FCC/IES-003, CE, VCCI, CISPR 22, CISPR 24, KN22, KN24, EN60950-1 2nd edition, UL60950-1 2nd edition | ||
| BTUs/hr (typical/max) | 6.31/6.92 K BTU/h | 4.70/5.15 K BTU/h | 15.71/17.22 K BTU/h |
| Carbon footprint (max) | 0.001 Metric Tons | 0.001 Metric Tons | 0.003 Metric Tons |
1One MB is equal to one million bytes, one GB is equal to one billion bytes, one TB equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes) and one PB equals 1,000 TB when referring to storage capacity. Usable capacity will vary from the raw capacity due to object storage methodologies and other factors.
Crown Media Selects Object Storage to Extend Online Storage for Content Explosion
“We have an essentially unlimited archive capacity that lets us bring back assets much faster than before—at disk speed. We’ve eliminated backup but have much better protection—there are always at least two copies of the assets, and we have full site loss protection.”
Roy Burns Director of Digital Asset Management, Crown Media
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Crawford Media Services Revolutionizes Media Archiving with Object Storage
“Object storage gives us the ability to provide a level of archiving service that we have not seen from anyone else in the industry—100% data integrity, migration to newer technology in the future through nondisruptive scalability, and the option of storing duplicate copies of data in different locations for an additional level of DR protection.”
Steve Davis Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Crawford Media Services
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Consolidating IT by Standardizing on Quantum Across Business Divisions
“With StorNext and Storage Manager, we can implement a very flexible data protection model that taps into the performance and scalability of object storage.”
Steven Butler Production Technology Director, Hogarth Worldwide
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