HGST Launches Affordable, Simple-To-Scale Object Storage System

HGST (a Western Digital company) today announced its Active Archive System, an object storage system that enables businesses to easily storedata. Delivering 4.7 petabytes (PB) of raw data storage in a single rack, the HGST Active Archive System is a ready out-of-the-box object storage system that helps data centers easily evolve from siloed data storage to cloud-scale active archiving.  For data that is past the ‘create and modify’ phase of its life, and in need of long-term retention with fast access, the Active Archive System provides accessibility, scalability, simplicity and affordability, the company said. Its breakthrough TCO beats the white box economics of traditional cloud infrastructure to enable organisations to store and access more data, driving deeper insights and ultimately unlocking the value of their data.

The press release explained the product further as below:

The Active Archive System has been singularly designed to address the need for rapid access to massive data stores. Utilising HGST’s most advanced, 8TB, second-generation HelioSeal™ hard drives, coupled with tightly integrated, tuned and optimised hardware, the scale-out object storage system delivers the performance, efficiency and scale required for public and private cloud data centers. The combination of industry leading power efficiency at one watt per TB, and an acquisition cost that beats white box economics enables the system to deliver breakthrough TCO that is 50-70 percent lower than alternative open source and commercial object storage systems.

The HGST Active Archive System is a plug-and-play, S3 compliant scale-out object storage system; it only requires network and power connections to each rack to be put to work. The Active Archive System offers limitless scaling without the costly need for replication, and its open interface supports ease of integration and flexibility as needs evolve