Simplified management and optimized storage utilization
Intelligent information life-cycle management—Grid Access Manager Software enables the creation of information life-cycle management (ILM) policies that govern the geographic location and placement of data in a multi-tier, multi-facility storage system. Intelligent ILM can help deploy the right storage in the right place, on the right media, at the right time based on its relevance and value to the organization.
Operation across facilities and tiers—Capacity, performance and geographic scope of Grid Access Manager Software may be increased by adding new nodes. As nodes are added, typically in a non-disruptive manner, Grid Access Manager Software can continue to present itself as one large scalable computing system. Grid Access Manager Software automatically configures the environment to take advantage of the new resources.
Hardware agnostic—Grid Access Manager Software utilizes industry-standard servers and storage, empowering administrators to deliver a “best of breed” enterprise storage strategy with the flexibility to adapt over time. A Grid Access Manager Software solution can be composed of heterogeneous storage platforms with multiple storage media (such as SCSI, SATA and tape) from multiple vendors.
Automated data migration—Grid Access Manager Software can automate the movement of data from obsolete resources to new resources—reducing or eliminating manual, disruptive data-migration projects.
Open, standards-based access—With support for industry-standard interfaces (including CIFS and NFS) and protocols (such as HTTP), Grid Access Manager Software enables organizations to implement an enterprise fixed-content-storage strategy.
Proactive monitoring and management—Grid Access Manager Software is designed to reduce the cost of management by continuously monitoring the health of the system, including storage, servers and network, and proactively alerts administrators if issues arise. Administrators can monitor and manage the grid from across the network using the single-pane, Web-based management console. More than 200 real-time and historical reports enable administrators to track CPU, network, storage resources and digital data assets themselves.
Exceptional performance—Grid Access Manager Software employs data streaming, caching and the power of grid architecture to deliver a fast, responsive storage system. Grid Access Manager Software implements a fast data-streaming mechanism to deliver data. To improve performance, Grid Access Manager Software load-balances requests based on storage tier, CPU and network bandwidth.
Data protection and business continuity
Data integrity protection—Grid Access Manager Software helps protect the integrity and authenticity of stored data using digital fingerprints. Data integrity is proactively monitored and verified when data is stored, replicated, restored and retrieved. Integrity checks can be performed on demand and if errors are encountered, Grid Access Manager Software can automatically create another replica from a known good copy.
High availability—Grid Access Manager Software provides a fault-tolerant, resilient and self-healing solution. Storage services can remain available even after hardware, storage and network failures occur or where entire sites are completely destroyed.
Automated recovery—In the event of site, storage or system failure, Grid Access Manager Software automates data recovery to fully restore the storage system to the original state. During this period, storage services continue to be available.
Multi-site operation
Object store with global name space—Grid Access Manager Software provides an object-based storage system that can scale to petabytes (capacity) and billions of objects (object count) in a single unified system that can span multiple sites and tiers. A global name space gives access to stored objects using globally unique object identifiers, which can be accessed from any grid resource—regardless of location or storage tier. This eliminates storage silos to enable efficient and effective multi-site access.
WAN-optimized replication—Grid Access Manager Software provides policy-based N-way data replication among sites and heterogeneous storage hardware. The replication semantics are highly optimized for WAN operation and designed to recover from congestion or link failure.
