Our Product
The building block of our Digital Content Storage System is a storage node – a complete, self contained server with its own disks, processors, network connections, and cache memory. A storage node has a capacity of six to forty-eight terabytes. Two quad-core Xeon ® 64 bit CPU’s per server are standard. Up to twenty gigabits per second of network bandwidth is available for each server, and up to 64 gigabytes of cache. This processing power, external bandwidth, and cache allows each storage server to handle extremely high digital content workloads.
Storage nodes are combined as clusters to provide as much storage capacity as needed.
Nodes in a cluster are inter-connected using standard Ethernet or InfiniBand technology. A global, distributed file system provides a single file system view for up to eight petabytes of storage. Externally a cluster appears as a single system, greatly simplifying administration and use.
A cluster architecture is the best approach for storing large amounts of digital content. The single file system view can handle the largest content collections. The clustering of complete, self-contained storage nodes ensures that as additional nodes are added to the cluster, performance remains constant since processing capacity, cache, and network bandwidth are added along with storage capacity. The cluster approach also enables a number of advanced storage capabilities including high scalability, availability, and performance as well as simple capacity expansion.