PowerFile’s Hybrid Storage Appliance™ (HSA) combines the power of hybrid storage with enterprise-grade performance, density and scalability, making it an ideal solution for large organizations and corporate data centers.
The notion of hybrid is simple: performance when you need it, economy when you don’t. By virtualizing multiple underlying storage technologies with an intelligent file system, the HSA offers the performance of disk, the economy of tape, and superior reliability in a purpose-built platform optimized for long-term storage of fixed content.
Unmatched Reliability and Longevity
The most important aspect of any storage system is reliability, which is just as critical for long-term storage as it is for primary storage. The Hybrid Storage Appliance uses disk for performance caching and leverages industry standard Blu-ray™ media with a 50-year life for storing fixed content. This allows the HSA to completely avoid the risk of storing valuable fixed-content for many years on volatile magnetic media. Additionally, PowerFile developed the patent-pending Extended Verification And Self-healing Technology (EVAST™) to make Blu-ray reliable for the enterprise. EVAST establishes a new standard for data integrity by delivering a 100x improvement over RAID 6 with less than 10% penalty to usable capacity.
Industry-Leading Power Density Factor
Efficient use of data center floor space is just as critical as low power and cooling requirements. The HSA offers the Industry’s best combination of density, energy efficiency, and raw-to-usable capacity by delivering up to 225TB in a standard 42U rack, consuming less than 7 Watts per TB, and offering an 80% raw-to-usable capacity.
On-Demand Performance
By leveraging quad-core processor technology, intelligent disk-based caching, and a distributed processing architecture that efficiently scales both capacity and performance, the HSA is able to ingest data at up to 375MB/s and handle thousands of file requests per hour all while using less than 10% of the energy required for a disk-based archive solution.
Petabyte-Class Scalability and Manageability
Through a combination of high density robotic libraries and removable media cartridges, the HSA can easily scale to the petabyte range. Ease of management is inherent throughout the design and includes key features such as file-level WORM capabilities, thin provisioning, retention management, volume replication, and automated monitoring with integrated SNMP and e-mail notification.
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