ExERA with IBM
ExERA with IBM is an on-premise, purpose-built, engineered data archive solution specifically developed for HPC customers. The design principal centers around an architecture that delivers frictionless scalability in 4 dimensions: throughput up to 100 GB/sec, 100s of thousands of IOPS, horizontal scaling-out architecture with high parallelism including a parallel file system, and beyond Exabyte capacity. ExERA is a robust, scalable architecture that provides flexibility and future-proofing as HPC data management and scalability requirements change dramatically over the next few years. Migrating to ExERA today may dramatically collapse workspace island infrastructure and position our customers to meet the challenges of rapidly growing archive capacity requirements at the Exabyte level.
ExERA is purpose-built and engineered solution that delivers:
• Scalable IO throughput to support current and future requirements.
Easily scalable to meet your growing data access requirements; offering high read and write speeds up to 100GB/s.
• Automatic movement of data to the correct archive storage target, based on policies and budgetary considerations.
ExERA’s open architecture provides great software flexibility, allowing you to choose the enterprise archive software best suited for you environment.
• Operationally-resilient environment that has high availability and fault tolerance.
ExERA is designed with enterprise class resiliency in mind. Redundant architecture with no single point of failure to ensure data accessibility.
• High volume, bi-directional data movement from and to the HPC primary scratch storage and secondary processing to the workspace and archive layers to support the emerging AI, ML, DL, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Mining and Data Lake requirements.
ExERA scales horizontally to achieve high parallel throughput for you most active data while providing resilient and economical archival storage for colder workloads.
• Future proofing by leveraging commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) with selected best-of-breed components and products. No custom hardware or software.
ExERA’s open architecture allows you to use the right mix of hardware and software without locking your enterprise into a single vendor.
