Zetta The data center cloud storage service on the first day of SNW

Cloud storage, with the heat of cloud computing, has become a growing concern, and most of the cloud storage services are currently targeted at backup and archiving services that are not often read and that do not require fast and appropriate storage information. Zetta at this SNW conference, launched a new model for all types of unstructured master data to provide scalable on-demand storage services.

Zetta Enterprise Cloud Storage service is mainly for small and medium sized and large enterprise users with a scale of 200~2000 and data volume of 10TB, especially for those who do not have a dedicated storage administrator. This service uses a unique file system to hold multiple types of data, including dynamic file archiving, private directories, data migrations, media storage for online distribution, and Data Warehouse extensions.

Zetta has been testing their services with users in recent months, and is planning to extend the test in the next few months, expanding service applications in the third quarter of this year. According to Jeff Truehaft, chief executive of Zetta, the company has raised 11 million of billions of dollars, enough to support even longer operations by the end of 2010.

Zetta has a very clear definition of "real time" data and applications that do not require real-time access to data. Zetta says they have made significant innovations in the design of hardware and software architectures to deliver the performance and functionality features required for enterprise storage services. This application will incorporate features and synergies, electronic discovery, data warehousing, business continuity, compliance, and online disaster recovery.

Truehaft says Zetta has addressed some of the challenges besetting storage service providers, such as scalability, security, management, and multi-tenant issues. Zetta has developed a software RAID platform that provides Nodes data protection in a process that becomes rain (redundant Arrays of Independent n+3), which allocates data to multiple computers based on volumes.

In addition, Zetta has adopted this kind of open key infrastructure (PKI) in cryptography, and adopted a kind of non block architecture in network and controller. And Zetta has built a data center on the west coast of the United States and plans to continue westward. Zetta expects to build a second data center "soon" as a target data center for replication services. Zetta is currently using a 10GB network infrastructure to allow users to access Zetta data centers through leased cables, WANs, or other connections.

"If a user uses a leased cable and is hundreds of miles away from us, we can replicate or provide performance beyond the NAS application," says Truehaft. "The distance and speed of the network connection will have an impact on performance, but he believes that the impact on the cloud storage is greater than the performance." "Everyone knows that when the data reaches the other end, all the data is actually there." With our rain and n+3 and block-level testing, we can provide this assurance to our users. ”

The cost of the ZETTA service is 25 cents per gigabyte, and service level agreements are provided to ensure performance and data integrity. "We have a lot of multi-core computers that deliver high performance, and users will get higher performance from using our systems, no matter when they need or how many users are using our services," Truehaft said. ”

"The core business of Zetta is based on simplifying and expanding the data center needs of enterprise users," said Laura Dubois, director of storage software for the market research company. The Zetta Enterprise Cloud storage solution addresses the functional needs of the user and walks in front of this era of cloud storage as the primary datacenter option. ”