 IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage
The demand to manage and store massive amounts of file data continues to
challenge data centers. IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) is
designed to embrace cloud storage in the petabyte age. SONAS can meet
today’s storage challenges with quick and cost-effective IT-enabled business
enhancements designed to grow with unprecedented scale.
SONAS can also deliver computing services that make the supporting
technology almost invisible. It enables applications and services to be
uncoupled from the underlying infrastructure, enabling businesses to adjust
to change quickly. As a result, SONAS can easily integrate with your
organization’s strategies to develop a more dynamic enterprise.
Industry-leading performance
An IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) system reached over
403K IOPS*—a
world record—on the industry-standard SPECsfs2008 benchmark. This result is
over three times higher than IBM's nearest competitor to-date. The tested
SONAS system configuration was a typical setup that might be seen in your
data center. It contained ten interface nodes and eight storage pods,
leaving room for the system to grow. There are no unnecessary complexities
added to the configuration such as aggregated file systems, aggregated
racks, or usage of all SSD drives that are impractical and very costly in
today’s environment.
SONAS is the only clustered file system in the industry that can offer
the performance to not only handle large files but also smaller random
access file workloads, all under a single file system. SONAS systems can
grow based on your needs by adding interface nodes in the front or by
independently adding storage pods on the backend, or both. This capability
lets you sustain high performance during capacity growth and allows you to
handle small file, random access workloads and large file data driven by
high-performance computing applications. Examples of small file random I/O
workloads include home directories, large Internet mail serving, web-based
commerce, online transaction processing, securities trading, financial
applications and general-purpose file serving.
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