Speeding Data Access Requirements Across Storage Types, Data Centers, and Public Cloud
Infinidat has partnered with Hammerspace, utilizing its Global Data Platform to provide sophisticated file indexing and automated data orchestration capabilities, to provide Infinidat customers with a global file system (GFS) and data management system that bridges heterogeneous on-premises and cloud storage platforms to better manage their distributed data
Infinidat InfiniBox was built from the ground up to deliver petabyte-scale NAS and SAN in parallel. The Infinidat File System (IFS) is a clean-sheet design that employs a stateless, functional programming paradigm to deliver petabyte-scale NAS services that couple directly with Neural Cache. Along with managing petabyte NAS workloads, InfiniBox excels at extreme use cases, such as trillions of objects in a file system and millions of files per directory, which are simply not possible with traditional NAS filers supporting SMB and NFS.
With Hammerspace, users and applications throughout the enterprise interface with InfiniBox, third party storage, or cloud repositories via a common unified file directory, regardless of where they reside. As a standards-based platform, this greatly simplifies the administration of data and enables customers seamless access from anywhere in the world. No proprietary client software is needed, since users and applications are accessing files via the same standard SMB and/or NFS file protocols they are used to. Further, with the suite of data services (the blue section in below diagram), Hammerspace enhances the native data protection offered with InfiniBox and extends that protection across the rest of the unstructured data not sitting on the InfiniBox.
