BlueArc Wins Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Award for Enterprise NAS:
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| 2100 | 2200 | 2500 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPECsfs Ops/sec. * | Up to 75,000 | Up to 100,000 | Up to 100,000 |
| Throughput | Up to 5Gbps | Up to 10Gbps | Up to 10Gbps |
| Scalability | 256TB | 512TB | 512TB |
| Ethernet Ports | Six | Six | Two 10GbE |
| Fibre Channel Ports | Four 4Gb | Four 4Gb | Four 4Gb |
| Clustering Ports | Two 10GbE | Two 10GbE | Two 10GbE |
BlueArc's Titan 2000 Series is designed to meet the requirements of today's sophisticated enterprise data centers and high performance applications with new levels of storage performance, scalability and reliability. Titan is the first storage solution that consolidates and manages up to 2 petabytes of data in a single storage pool. In addition, Titan supports a Cluster Name Space for a unified directory structure and global access to data for CIFS and NFS clients through any node in the cluster.
Titan is built using a unique hardware accelerated architecture and offers enterprise-class management tools - including data migration, replication and anti-virus support. This customerproven, hardware-implemented architecture maximizes data access and user loads with extremely low latency, resulting in increased productivity and significantly reduced cost of ownership.
Titan enables millions of users and hundreds of compute nodes to be served concurrently, while maintaining data access at dramatically higher rates than those found in traditional storage systems. Users working on even the largest data sets see dramatic improvements in information storage and retrieval, increasing productivity and delivering a solid return on investment.
Titan inherently supports the ability to build tiered storage infrastructures with a mix of Fibre Channel, SATA, and WORM protected storage on a single system. This flexibility allows administrators to easily utilize the latest disk technology. Storing data on the most appropriate media dramatically reduces cost while maintaining access times consistent with application requirements.
With Titan's dedicated non-intrusive backup and replication technology, users experience uninterrupted high-speed access to their data. Productivity never suffers to accommodate a backup or replication window.
Titan is designed to meet the most demanding requirements, supporting 5 Gbps throughput performance at the entry level or 10 Gbps of data throughput with the high performance configuration. As data and user populations grow, or as workstation and application server performance accelerates, Titan can easily scale to meet these increased demands.
Customers can add storage at any time to meet new application or business needs or to consolidate a company's disparate storage into a single point of management, without incurring downtime. Titan's object based File System scales to 2 petabytes and supports Virtual Volumes - logical containers that manage data capacity and can dynamically expand and contract to meet changing allocation requirements.
Titan solutions can be designed for the heart of the enterprise, with no single point of failure. All aspects of the system's modular architecture deliver maximum availability even during upgrades or maintenance. Additionally, BlueArc provides a choice of asynchronous or synchronous replication and mirroring options at both the file and block level. Titan offers a range of options to meet the most demanding business needs, providing instant data availability even during times of crisis. Should performance requirements grow beyond a single system, Titan's native clustering capability supports two Titans connected into a single file system. The data managed by each Titan is available to each clustered system, allowing for seamless fail-over and continued data access regardless of an enterprise's maintenance or disaster recovery requirements.
BlueArc's Tiered Storage allows an enterprise to match appropriate storage media to differing application requirements, achieving optimal levels of performance, capacity and cost without being required to manage and maintain multiple storage systems. Combined with the accelerated productivity achieved from the underlying SiliconServer Architecture, Titan delivers a fast return on investment.
In today's environments, as new server and networking technology is deployed within the enterprise, storage systems must be upgraded to meet the needs of the IT infrastructure. The vast majority of storage system upgrades require an entirely new product installation - a "forklift" upgrade. Titan eliminates these painful hardware replacement costs, delivering a modular solution with maximum flexibility to upgrade via firmware feature enhancements or server modules without replacing the entire system.
Titan's NIM module provides the networking and management interfaces and carries out TCP, UDP and IP processing in hardware. Two versions of the NIM module are available, offering a choice of dual, 10 Gigabit Ethernet fiber XFP interfaces or six Gigabit Ethernet fiber or copper SFP interfaces. Both modules support IEEE802.3ad link aggregation, and transmit/receive both standard and jumbo Ethernet frames. The NIM Modules also support dedicated Ethernet and RS-232 interfaces for management.
Titan's Silicon File System modules combine to carry out protocol processing (including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and NDMP) and all aspects of file system operation in hardware. The hardware execution of file system operations is key to delivering the throughput and low latency offered by Titan. Directory searches and file lookups are far more efficient and less time consuming, allowing data to be returned to the client quicker, and increasing productivity. The file system modules also implements battery-backed NVRAM, ensuring no data will be lost in the event of unplanned downtime. In addition, the file system is protected by mirrored NVRAM in a clustered configuration. The optional FSX protocol acceleration module can be used in place of the standard FSA module to provide maximum performance for installations with large numbers of Windows clients or Windows applications servers.
Titan's SIM module controls BlueArc's Parallel RAID Striping technology and is responsible for disk, storage management, and provides the high-speed 10Gb cluster interconnect. The hardware execution of Parallel RAID Striping across LUNs allows performance to increase even as more storage is added to the system. A massive data cache provides rapid access to commonly used data.
* For more details about the SPEC SFS benchmark and a current list of validated results, please visit www.spec.org/sfs97r1/results/sfs97r1.html.