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Big data storage solutions

Ahead-IT specializes in servers for big data storage. Every storage server contains a RAID card or JBOD controller with LSI CacheCade software pre-packaged. All of our storage servers are certified for Open-E and/or Nexenta software. Be sure to check out our JBOD and backup hardware components as well.
 

LSI CacheCade 2.0 solves your hot data problems

Put short, LSI MegaRaid CacheCade 2.0 is a software tool that keeps your ‘hot’ data readily available on flash memory in a solid state drive.
 
Your storage hardware can consist of SSD, SAS or SATA disks. SSD’s (solid-state drives) perform better but are more expensive than SAS and SATA storage. Our servers use LSI CacheCade 2.0 to store idle data on the SATA or SAS disks and to only engage the SSD for active or ‘hot’ data.
 
This allows for your big data storage infrastructure to keep performance very high while requiring much less expensive SSD’s. That’s a win-win if ever we saw one.
 

Open-E and Nexenta software

The Open-E and Nexenta software packages are perfectly suited for several types of storage:

  • High-availability virtualization storage
  • Video & big data storage
  • Cloud & VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) storage
  • Backup storage
  • R&D storage
     

Open-E and Nexenta support all major protocols: iSCSI, NFS, Apple Talk AFP, fibre channel, SMB, FTP, HTTP sharing and data/volume replication. 
 
Feel free to contact us for all your questions. 

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JBOD storage platform expansion
Expand your storage platform while saving money with JBOD.
The best alternative to SAN
Part of your IT infrastructure consists of a storage platform. You use it to save files and make backups, but it serves other purposes than that, as well. For example, a storage platform is a necessary component for running .
 
A storage platform is often configured with a SAN (Storage Attached Network) – an advanced and reliable, but also rather big investment. JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) components are a great way to cover that problem. A JBOD chassis is low-cost and easy to manage. It bundles the capacity of local storage and concentrates it into one central storage platform that is flexible, scalable and reliable (high-availability).
 
12 to 88 SATA/SAS disks
Ahead-IT offers JBOD chassis containing 12 to 88 SATA/SAS disks. You can use these as independent hard disks, as a RAID configuration, or in combination with ZFS. Server hardware with an external SAS port is required to use JBOD components.
 
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Nexenta Certified iSCSI, SMB and NFS Storage
Nexenta-certified storage software server
Certified for Nexenta, Ahead-IT’s standalone storage servers are ready for your biggest IT challenges. Our 2U and 4U servers allow administrators to manage substantial volumes of storage, while keeping the TCO low. Our storage servers can hold up to 36 disks, or 256 with JBOD chassis.
 
All protocols, such as iSCSI, Apple Talk AFP, fibre channel, SMB, FTP, HTTP sharing and data/volume replication are supported.
 
NexentaStor™ 
Nexenta storage software is optimized for high-availability, scalable and high-performance hardware solutions. The Nexenta OS is designed for cloud computing and virtualization.
 
Based on OpenSolaris & OpenStorage ZFS technology, the comprehensive NexentaStor™ OS makes it very easy to manage multi-vendor environments.  
 
Configure and order your server online
Construct your server online with our easy-to-use configurator. Please keep in mind that Nexenta storage software is not included in the standard server package. We do offer servers with Open-E storage software installed out-of-the-box. 
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Storage servers with data management software
The cloud doesn’t float in the sky. It is a meticulously designed combination of hardware and software. In order to provide for great data management, these parts have to merge into one another seamlessly. Because Open-E software responds very well to our Supermicro storage servers, they come with Open-E DSS V7 pre-installed.    
 
Open-E DSS V7
Open-E has quickly become the go-to data management software for cloud storage. It offers an array of built-in enterprise-class features:   
 
  • Volume and data replication
  • Storage virtualization
  • Snapshots
  • Active-active fail-over
  • Active-passive fail-over
  • Continuous data protection
  • Backup solutions
 
Our Open-E solutions support all the commonly used protocols, such as iSCSI, NFS, AppleTalk, AFP, fibre channel as well as SMB, FTP and http sharing.
 
Open-E is VMware ready. It is also compatible with Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual virtualization software.
 
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Configure your data management software just like you do your server hardware. Click on a server model to start customizing. Ahead-IT products come with a 3-year warranty (upgradable to a 5-year plan) and out-of-the-box usability.
 
For more information about Open-E data management software or storage servers, please contact us.
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What is hot-data SSD-caching?
Currently, 3 mainstream storage types are available.  SSD has the highest performance, as is for random I/O, random read/write, sequantial read/write ans general access time.  It’s total price per GB is much higher compared to SAS and SATA disks.  Therefor, the ideal situation would be to make all active data, used by a specififc application, automatically use the performance of the SSD disk.  LSI CacheCade 2.0 offers this smart solution.  All data will initially be stored on the cheaper SATA and SAS disks. Actively accesses data (read or write), will be marked as hot-data.  The hardware RAID controller migrates this hot-data instantly and fully automatic to the fast SSD disk or array.  Once the data is no longer used, they will be migrated again to the SATA or SAS disk.
The result is a high-performant storage server as it would be fully SSD equipped, at the affordable price of a SATA/SAS storage server.  Below, you can find an informational video.  For a full review, click here.
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