Compared to traditional storage, EdgeRay ES adopts a distributed cluster model where structured and unstructured data is spread over multiple general-purpose X86 servers within a cluster. This hardware-agnostic model eliminates single points of failure and improves storage performance without imposing hardware lock-ins that make you dependent on hardware from a specific vendor. EdgeRay ES’software-defined technology is a free, open, economical, and efficient storage solution. Horizontal scaling allows servers to be added to a cluster as demand increases. A single unified namespace allows data to be accessed using different protocols to meet the diverse storage needs of today’s key businesses and applications while significantly reducing the number of copies of data.
EdgeRay ES has:
High scalability
Scale-out storage and multi-node load balancing allow for flexible node expansion to accommodate continuously increasing amounts of data and ensure business continuity.
High performance,
Read and write operations are cached to provide flash-like latency with hierarchical storage management that automatically moves data between high-cost and low-cost storage media.
High reliability,
Data replication writes multiple copies of data to more than one destination, while erasure coding mechanisms split data into fragments, expand and encode it with redundant data pieces, and store the data across a set of different locations and storage media. Together these features increase data redundancy by allowing the information to be reconstructed if data becomes corrupted.
