Cloud storage gives greater value to massive amounts of data

The rapid expansion of enterprise data, the challenges of massive storage is becoming more severe. For users in a wide range of industries, explosive growth of massive amounts of data is flooding their storage systems. At the same time, the data security requirements of various industries are increasingly high. In particular, video surveillance, High-performance computing and other industries, not only the storage system capacity, reliability requirements are increasing, but also for the transmission bandwidth has put forward higher requirements.

In the face of growing data, traditional storage architectures, due to poor scalability, can only add high-end storage devices when user capacity and performance requirements increase. Over the longer term, the storage environment becomes increasingly complex, managing and operating more expensive and causing excessive energy consumption. At the same time, overly complex storage architectures and backup methods also make it difficult to meet the growing data management and disaster recovery needs of users.

Now, as a new technology concept, cloud storage is changing the way of providing and using traditional storage, and also has a far-reaching impact on the storage industry. As a small number of domestic companies with cloud storage development of independent intellectual property rights and core technology manufacturers, UIT (Innovation Division Storage Technology Co., Ltd.) after a long time to IPTV, video surveillance, internet and other industries to explore the application of user storage applications, these have the mass storage requirements of industry users, only the application of lower Cloud storage systems with higher aggregate bandwidth to meet their explosive growth in storage requirements. Among them, the brand-new large-scale distributed cloud storage file System application pattern, will be the massive storage and the cloud storage Combination Foundation.

Distributed cloud storage System improves the efficiency of mass data storage effectively

Cloud storage is becoming one of the trends in the global storage industry, and the range of applications for cloud storage products is growing and the customer base is more fragmented. In view of the diverse needs of industry applications, uit that users of all industries can only apply innovative flexible system architecture to meet the dynamic growth of storage needs. In combination with its innovative flexible cloud storage system architecture, and using distributed storage technology and unified monitoring and management platform of large-scale distributed cloud storage file system, will help various industries to achieve massive data storage, disaster recovery and backup of the new model. For applications with large data volume and high concurrent access, a large distributed cloud storage System is a file-sharing storage platform that can provide massive storage space and support flexible and high performance access. Fully applicable to video surveillance, streaming media, the internet and other data storage and concurrent access to high demand for the industry and users.

Unlike traditional storage systems, distributed cloud storage systems are designed specifically for the characteristics of large-scale distributed data processing and multimedia applications. A distributed cloud storage system consists of a metadata server cluster (master servers) and a storage server cluster (chunk servers), which is accessed by many clients (client). The metadata server is used to store all the metadata in the file system, including the namespaces, access control information, storage location, and so on, while the storage server cluster is used to store the user's file data. When the client accesses the system, it first accesses the metadata server node, obtains the information of the storage server node that will interact with it, and then directly accesses the storage server nodes to complete the data access, which effectively prevents the metadata server from overloading and greatly improves the system efficiency.

In data transmission, the distributed cloud storage System integrates the storage gateway cluster, and the third party standard NAS client device can directly connect to the UCSG network gateway Access system. For workstations, personal PCs, notebooks, and other devices that do not carry Third-party standard NAS clients, users can access the system by using a client provided by a cloud storage system or a proprietary API, so that no matter what type of user can easily access the system, Greatly facilitates the user's use.

Distributed cloud storage System can realize the storage of massive data, the system supports dozens of PB level capacity, can manage billions of documents efficiently, and has excellent online capacity, when the storage capacity is low, users can expand the storage capacity freely without disrupting the business operation. The system also delivers unmatched performance, delivering up to dozens of GB of stable aggregation bandwidth and hundreds of thousands of file query efficiencies per second. In addition, the metadata server cluster, storage server cluster and gateway cluster are all redundant in the system, and are equipped with unique automatic fault detection and efficient automatic recovery and fault-tolerant technology. In this way, the entire system will not have a single point of failure, fundamentally ensuring continuity, and ensure the high availability of the system. At the same time, the system also has its own management system, with a simple and easy-to-use graphical management and monitoring interface, to support users through a dedicated security channel for remote configuration and system monitoring, thus satisfying the user to use a unified platform for the system monitoring and management requirements, a comprehensive simplification of the management complexity.

Fully meet the industry users of large data volume and high concurrent access storage applications

Faced with a variety of cloud storage requirements, uit innovative flexible cloud storage architecture can meet user requirements based on its own characteristics. For the video surveillance industry, along with the popularity of network cameras, the traditional monitoring system is undergoing a magnificent transformation. Now, video capture is going to the direction of high-definition, 720P or even 1080P real-time monitoring is no longer expected, and the huge IP network resources, the front-end camera, encoder or video server can use streaming media access to storage devices, and achieve multi-channel video 7*24* 365 long time to write the same storage device, so that people can basically achieve in any place, any time, can search their own monitoring system, at any time to get the required audio and video and other monitoring and alarm information. The new monitoring model also spawned larger storage capacity requirements and higher bandwidth satisfaction. The new generation of HD video surveillance system brings the high bandwidth, massive data storage, centralized management and the security of video surveillance data, which is caused by millions of pixels. Can video surveillance users continue to use traditional storage devices and management, driven by new application requirements?

UIT innovative Flexible cloud storage architecture, which completely breaks through the traditional storage mode performance and capacity bottlenecks. For the video surveillance industry, uit large-scale distributed cloud storage file system can provide the capacity of PB-level storage capacity and real-time dynamic expansion, support large-scale high-definition camera access, and allow users to use a standard client or a dedicated API and other means to easily access the system, to achieve mass HD video file storage and invocation. At the same time, the cloud storage system realizes the redundant preservation of the key data, which guarantees the security of the key video recording and effectively increases the security of the system. With a large-scale distributed cloud storage file system, video surveillance users only need to consider the camera and encoder and other front-end devices, through the access network and the cloud storage System connection, easy to store and call the video image, without considering the back-end storage and bandwidth pressure, successfully solve the storage problem.

And for the Internet industry users, because the Internet industry are personal data, small pictures, small pages, small files as the main storage objects, the data needs to be repeatedly stored and used. This puts forward a rigorous and frequent ability to read and write the storage system. With large-scale distributed cloud storage system, Internet industry users can integrate cloud storage services and IPTV, streaming media on demand, podcasts, high-definition picture sharing and other applications, obtain excellent small file read and write performance, realize the online storage and replication of data, and through LAN and WAN, Intelligently distributes this data across multiple sites, providing Internet services more efficiently to end users.

As one of the first vendors to engage in cloud storage development, UIT has always worked to drive applications and storage to help users shift from using storage devices to using storage services. In the future, in the face of a more segmented customer base, uit will be in a sound research and development system and a high-level development team led by users of various industries to launch the application of large-scale distributed cloud storage file System Enterprise-class solutions, so that cloud storage technology really with customer needs to achieve a combination, So that users with a large number of data storage needs of the industry can effectively manage and store data, so that the vast number of information for enterprises to create greater value.