Western Digital’s ActiveScale P100 is the company’s latest integrated storage system, which disrupts the economics of scaling capacity into petabytes, and enables the creation of massive data storage repositories across both on-premise and hosted cloud architectures.
Focused on addressing cloud-scale challenges, Western Digital Corporation has announced the introduction of a new entry-level storage system. Expanding its existing systems, solutions and platforms portfolio, the new plug-and-play object storage system, the ActiveScale P100 system, provides the foundation for the future of petabyte (PB) scale storage infrastructure.
The ActiveScale P100 joins the Data Center System (DCS) business unit’s portfolio that also includes the Active Archive System, the InfiniFlash all-Flash storage platform, and the disk-based platforms. The ActiveScale P100 is an economic entry-level configuration that scales from 720TB to 2PB of raw capacity to meet application data growth needs in increments of easy-to-install capacities. It’s an extensible, fully integrated architecture that utilizes a standard Amazon S3 interface for object storage. The system is ideal for high-capacity demanding markets, including on-premise and off-premise cloud, life sciences, government/defense, and media and entertainment industry applications. The ActiveScale system easily addresses both capacity and performance challenges for data-intensive workloads, such as large content repositories, media streaming and media services, data analytics, data protection and archiving.
Included in the ActiveScale P100, and available today for current HGST Active Archive System customers, is ActiveScale CM (cloud management), a new cloud-based system monitoring tool that allows customers to simply and effectively manage their systems. It is provided at no additional cost. ActiveScale CM provides remote system health monitoring and predictive capacity and performance analytics to proactively manage the storage and access to petabyte-scale data, subsequently reducing IT and administrative costs.
“Object storage is a key technology that has enabled hyperscalers to build cloud-scale infrastructure,” said Terri McClure, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “We believe that the ActiveScale P100 system will enable strong consistency at cloud-scale, and enables enterprises to achieve new levels of scale and flexibility far easier and at a much better cost point than traditional storage.”
List pricing for the ActiveScale P100 system starts at $0.22 per gigabyte and is available for immediate order.
“The nice thing about the Active Archive System is that it plugs directly into the Versity Storage Manager without any special modifications,” said Bo Kennedy, director of Architecture, OvationData. “We don’t have to change our workflow at all. In fact, the Active Archive System enhances our workflow. Object storage provides both economic and performance advantages but the challenge to any system is scaling efficiently. We look forward to seeing ActiveScale’s solution to this challenge.”
“The storage industry is facing a wave of transformation, stemming from cloud architectures, software-defined storage, the convergence of compute, and the growing adoption of flash,” said Eric Burgener, research director, Storage Practice, IDC. “As enterprises and service providers alike evolve their infrastructures to incorporate these new technologies, they will look to enterprise providers like Western Digital that bring specific expertise in integrating them into next-generation platform offerings.”
Through the Enterprise Partner Program, the DCS business unit works closely with key solution providers to deliver new levels of service to customers. The DCS business unit is integrating, tuning and optimizing key technologies at the component, firmware, software, platforms and system levels to create a portfolio that enables partners to address big data and fast data challenges. Additionally, the program brings together leading application independent software vendors (ISVs) in conjunction with solutions providers to develop complete solutions that achieve an unprecedented total customer experience. The ActiveScale P100 enables solution providers to easily install solutions and optimize customer workloads to capture, store, manage, retain and deliver data for their customers.
