Data protection and big data management firm Quantum has introduced StorNext 4.3 software which brings new intelligence features, enhanced performance and increased scale to managing big data.
The new release is designed to handle big data in digital media content, genomics research, video surveillance and natural resource exploration.
StorNext 4.3 incorporates a new database and supports up to one billion files and several petabytes of tiered storage. It also includes new capabilities to help customer archive on ingest, active vaulting and project-based capacity management to further manage the volume, velocity and variety found in unstructured data and to extract maximum value from it.
The upgraded version includes an Active Vault, a closely managed vault within the tape library that offers lower cost than the robot-accessible active shelves.
Release 4.3 leverages its new database that is designed on MySQL to protect big data and provide faster file truncation speeds (up to 1.5x faster at 1 million files), enabling efficient "archive on ingest" at the scale of big data.
With version 4.3, StorNext Distributed LAN Client (DLC) Windows clients can experience a maximum throughput improvement of 360% over 10 GbE and 60% for 1 GbE.
Quantum’s new release of StorNext adds the flexibility and intelligence to manage storage capacity on a per-project basis through directory quotas.
It also enhances archive performance for small files that are often archived along with large files, up to 40% faster writes for files that are less than 1 MB.
StorNext 4.3 provides a new utility that can intelligently re-align files in multi-file formats so they are stored contiguously on disk after retrieval from the archive.
The company’s new release also improves file creation times up to 50%, which improves overall write performance for multi-file formats such as DPX. It enables simple hardware upgrades and disaster recovery.
For Mac OS X only-based StorNext File System environments, StorNext 4.3 now supports Named Streams.
