Case Study

Cluster Archival Storage

The high-performance computing group in an organization has a cluster of two hundred (200) nodes, each with 150GB or more of disk space available. By installing CloudFS, they gain a 30 Raw Terabyte File System, or 10 TBs of triply redundant storage. This enables result data sets to be archived, freeing up space on high performance filers for active data.

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CloudFS: Build a Storage Cloud with Unused Disk Space

Why buy a filer, when you already have terabytes to petabytes of unused disk space on machines you already own?

Using our CloudFS software and your existing hardware, we can save you money by putting this unused storage to work for your high-throughput data and archival applications.

Based upon the Apache Hadoop project, CloudFS offers powerful capabilities:

  • Store petabytes of data across the unused storage on your servers and workstations running Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and Solaris.

  • Redundancy and fault tolerance are built in to ensure data integrity

  • Sophisticated subnet-based data placement logic makes the file system resilient to individual server and switch failures

  • Use this storage through several interfaces, including our RESTful web-service interface, and CFTP applications

  • Access this storage using cross-platform, encrypted drivers to access on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X

  • Our management tools make administering the storage cloud easy

CloudFS makes it easy to create a high-throughput and reliable file system using free disk space. For more information please contact us.