Arcastream: Ngenea Data-Aware Cloud Gateway

ArcaStream: Ngenea Data-Aware Cloud Gateway

Introducing the world's ﬁrst data-aware cloud gateway and collaborative storage solution

Cloud and object storage is acknowledged to be highly scalable, Key Benefits resilient and extremely cost effective, making it an attractive solution for storing and global sharing scientific and media-rich data. • Global namespace across on- However, cloud storage is not easily integrated into existing on- premises and cloud storage premises media and scientific workflows which often rely on industry standard NFS and SMB (CIFS) interfaces. Additionally, with multiple • Complete data awareness for copies of data being transferred manually from on-premise into the unprecedented insight into storage usage cloud, valuable data can become incredibly difficult to track or ultimately be lost. • Find valuable data, no matter where it’s located to extract insight and value World-wide file access and collaboration with Ngenea • Blazingly fast on-premises Ngenea Data-Aware Cloud Storage Gateway integrates on-premises data-intensive storage supports the most data workflows from Linux, Windows and OSX clients with cloud storage through simple, intensive workloads industry standard NFS and CIFS (SMB) interfaces. Once files are uploaded into cloud • Cloud file sharing and storage, they can be shared and synchronized among users globally. What’s more, synchronization, empowers Ngenea adds rich application-specific metadata so globally distributed users and global collaboration applications can easily find, track, manage, protect and verify provenance of their data throughout its lifecycle. • Data provenance, audit, security and access control • Reduce storage costs

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Software deﬁned scale-out freedom

Intelligent Secure, Global Data Analytics Automated Tiering Collaboration Tools Unprecedented data awareness delivers actionable insight into storage usage

Ngenea exploits system and application specific metadata, to provide unprecedented data awareness, along with access rights and audit trails to enhance data intensive life science, media & entertainment, energy exploration and scientific workflows, so workflow constituents can find and access the valuable data they are looking for. Ngenea can also track data throughout the workflow, through all transformations, analyses, and interpretations. With Ngenea, data is optimally managed, shared, and reused with verified provenance of the data and the conditions under which it was generated – so results are reproducible and analysable for defects.

Since it knows so much about what data is being stored and how and who is using it, Ngenea’s data awareness can be used to reduce storage costs by enforcing data Supported Platforms retention rules and identifying old, unused data for archive and deletion. Dashboard for Ngenea Integration reports include: used capacity, storage used by year created, storage used by last access, storage used by owner, number of files by file size, and number of files by type. • Cloud – Google Cloud Storage – Amazon S3 File and Object Storage Virtualisation

• Object Ngenea creates a single searchable global namespace over existing on-premise and – Scality cloud storage, managing all data as a single virtualised pool. Ngenea provides – Cleversafe centralised visibility, management, and complete awareness of data located across – OpenStack Swift the world through a powerful and easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI). Ngenea – Ceph lets users and administrators identify what data is valuable and verify the provenance • NAS of data stored throughout its lifecycle. – EMC Isilon – Hitachi NAS Platform – NetApp FAS Information Lifecycle Management – Any NFS, CIFS or FTP- presented NAS share Frequently accessed, active data is held or cached in on-premise storage for fast user access to assets. Less frequently accessed data is automatically directed to cloud storage based on predefined policies such as age, time of last access, frequency of access, project, subject, study, data source, etc. Backup and archive from on-premise to cloud or object storage is easily facilitated with data search and retrieval possible with the click of a button. Finally, Ngenea directs data to specific cloud storage regions around the world to facilitate remote low latency access and empower global collaboration.

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For customers with no on-premise storage, or for those that would simply like to accelerate their existing resources, Ngenea provides the foundations for a hardware-agnostic scale-out NAS architecture that can scale to multiple petabytes and provide hundreds of GB/s of storage performance, while still using a cloud or object storage backend for data-at-rest. Based on ArcaStream’s software-defined storage architectures, Ngenea is the ultimate data-aware platform for all storage intensive-workflows.

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Ngenea Versions Compared

Ngenea Lite Ngenea Standard Ngenea Advanced

Choice of physical or virtualised Yes Yes Yes appliance

NFS/CIFS Gateway for Yes Yes Yes Cloud/Object Storage

Graphical User Interface for Yes Yes Yes managing data

Policy-based data management Yes Yes Yes

Graphical data analytics, Usage Yes Yes Yes insights and reporting

Integration with existing No Yes Yes on-premise ﬁle-based storage

Policy-based movement and No Yes Yes replication of data from on-premise resources to cloud storage

Replication of data between No Yes Yes geo-dispersed cloud storage instances for low-latency access around the world

Data caching for fast No No Yes user access

Built-in, software-deﬁned No No Yes scale-out NAS architecture for data-intensive workﬂows

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Software deﬁned scale-out freedom Features

Simple NFS/CIFS Presentation for Cloud and Object Storage Ngenea provides a simple point-and-click mechanism for accessing cloud-hosted data directly on users’ desktops, regardless of the operating system in use.

Policy-based Data Management Ngenea automatically moves data from on-premise to cloud-based storage using structured data management policies based on metrics such as access time, high- capacity water marks and owner.

Data analytics and metadata extraction Analytics and enhanced metadata extraction capabilities allow you to obtain valuable insights into the usage and contents of your data.

Integrates with both on-premise and cloud storage Ties all of your existing storage resources into a single virtualised pool with support for nearly any cloud, object or file storage system.

Replicates storage between geographically dispersed cloud instances Ensures that data is always available to users in the most efficient cloud data centre in relation to their location.

Intelligent data caching Automatically caches frequently-accessed data onto on-premise storage from the cloud for fast, ‘localised’ performance.

Highly secure Integrates directly with authentication systems such as Active Directory and LDAP and encrypts data in flight.

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