The wide-area networked data services provider Makani Networks will build wide-area data storage infrastructure for collecting, storing, processing, and mining vast amounts of data.
The company made the announcement at the CloudConnet 2011. It said that with falling prices of DRAMs, and the explosion in the usage of faster solid-state disks, it is necessary for the company to rethink the evolution of next-generation wide-area data storage.
However, the key challenge lies in building a fast, fault-tolerant, main-memory resident yet disk-persistent, wide-area data storage infrastructure that can automatically scale to thousands of server nodes located around the globe, said the company.
Makani Networks said to enable highly-available, persistent, wide-area distributed storage necessary for next-generation peta-scale data processing and web/video services, the storage must also provide: ACID-style semantics of an RDBMS combined with the high read and write scalability as required in a wide variety of data-driven workloads.
