ParaScale Private Cloud Storage Solution

In June 2008, the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander discovered ice crystals on the surface of Mars. There was global interest, scientists and religious organizations confirmed their unique theories about the universe, and everybody wanted access to the data. Given the challenges of landing on Mars and collecting soil samples, it is safe to say this is an example of a “write once, consume many” workload. Other examples include genomic sequence findings and quarterly business results. Each of these workloads shares a single creation event and requires a content storage solution that can efficiently fulfill the demand for multiple points of read access.

The ParaScale private cloud storage solution is ideal for such requirements. The cloud protects data by replicating files to one or more nodes. This same activity can create many access points, enabling a single creation event to be easily shared amongst many consumers. ParaScale delivers massive read bandwidth as data can be replicated by policy to many storage nodes. Each node is free to service requests for data independently of the others in the cloud. The ParaScale cloud is ideally suited for media storage because it automatically and transparently creates file replicas on different nodes and ensures support for atomic updates through file versioning. To ensure system performance, client systems and applications are load balanced across the available storage nodes within the private cloud, removing the need for complex load balancing and traffic shaping applications. The ParaScale cloud storage solution leads to reduced infrastructure costs as it leverages commodity storage, switches, and disks efficiently to provide a seamless user experience.