HCP: Compressing storage costs with object storage

Das, San, and NAS-oriented storage architectures have been the main forms of storage in the data center for a long time, but with the advent of the large data age, unstructured data has become an important part of the enterprise storage System, and the subset of XML in Office documents, texts, pictures, standard Universal markup languages , HTML, all kinds of reports, images and audio/video information, and so on, are unstructured data, even if the development of very mature SAN and NAS is still not a good response to the requirements of unstructured data, it can be said that object storage in such a context developed.

The core of object storage architecture is to separate data path (data read or write) and control path (metadata), and build storage system based on object storage device, each object storage device has certain intelligence and can manage data distribution automatically. In simple terms, object storage combines the benefits of Nas and Sans, with the advantages of high speed direct access to sans and distributed data sharing for NAS, providing a storage architecture with high performance, high reliability, Cross-platform, and secure data sharing.

At a recent 2014 HDS CIO Summit, the Technology and solution for HDS object Storage was a very important hot topic at the conference. HDS Asia Pacific content and cloud computing Solutions Technical Director Pratyush Khare in the General Assembly Forum on the HDS object storage software as the core solution and after the meeting interviewed reporters.

As you can see from the image above, the storage cost of HDS's object storage solution is comparable to that of traditional storage, but HDS incorporates a lot of data protection functionality in its own object storage that allows users to modify policies based on their actual scenarios, such as the setting of replicas, Users can distribute their own replica data on multiple sites and the number of replicas, and other technologies such as error correction can guarantee data security, so that users no longer need to add additional dedicated backup software and hardware devices, the entire data solution in the cost of data protection reduced to zero.

In traditional storage, which is based on structured data, backup is a must, many backup hardware and software vendors are doing this, but in an environment dominated by unstructured data, the object storage solution is rethinking data protection, and HDS's object storage integrates data protection on into In addition to a significant reduction in the cost of the entire storage solution, the architecture has been streamlined, and of course the difficulty of operation has been reduced.

Pratyush Khare mentions that HDs's object storage solutions now have a larger scale of applications involving government agencies, it and related services (such as Infosys), finance, construction, manufacturing, transportation, medical and life sciences. The main application scenarios include e-mail archiving, document archiving, file server NAS archiving, audio archiving and medical imaging, from these scenarios, their data volume will be relatively large, and unstructured data will be very much, such a scenario is more appropriate to use the object storage solution, And already archived data, integrating the strategy of data protection into a storage solution simplifies the complexity of the entire scenario.

HDS's Object storage solution is an important solution to its HCP intelligent data management platform, and HDS's positioning for HCP is based on the highest-security object storage solution in the industry. It includes archiving, backup-free, and hybrid cloud storage for different users and applications-all with a unified focus on a single platform. The HCP portfolio is built entirely from within the HDS data system, and can be easily deployed, managed, maintained, and adjusted, in close conjunction with changes in business requirements.

Here are two questions to be mentioned, one is mixed cloud storage, the other is the security of mixed cloud. The key to mixing the cloud first is to manage different storage resources and to seamlessly migrate data across resources, for a mixed cloud solution, the HDS Cloud transition service (HDS Cloud transitions Services) and the HDS cloud service based on content archiving, Enable customers to fully enjoy the flexibility and scalability of HCP based on a wide range of cloud applications, and IT organizations can gain data binding and tiering capabilities based on the cloud platform based on their business requirements, and unrestricted, whether through the HDS Cloud service pack or through other friendly cloud architectures.

Mixed cloud resource management issues are resolved with the support of the HDS cloud service, in addition, security issues, a large number of mobile devices and other personal terminals, the back-end public cloud resources are a relatively prominent aspect of security issues, these problems are blocking the cloud in the enterprise large-scale application of the key reasons, HCP and HCP There are a number of designs in anywhere and HDI for security policy, authority management, and system monitoring.