Data Storage Management Platform
Nodeum business case where the storage management brings a direct business value
Nodeum is capable to manage data stored in an DellEMC Isilon scale-out storage platform. This means that Nodeum is an answer to these specific uses cases :
Moreover, it's allowed advanced Data Management between Isilon as a "primary storage" and additional tiers of storages, such as :
Archive Data
The Data Storage Management process has to be transparent for a user perspective. The Active Archive workflow will organize the movement of data from the Isilon to Tape or to a Cloud or even an Object Storage whilst retaining the logical view of the data within the workflow.
Thereby reducing the workload on the Isilon in its function as Tier1 or Tier2 storage.
Protect Data
The product provides also an embedded workflow which manage data protection. Data stored in Isilon can be copied to different storage destinations like a legacy NAS, Tape, a Cloud or an Object Storage.
Options are available to allow incremental copy, integrity verification, reporting and a lot more.
The restoration mechanism allow a file level granularity or a complete data set restoration. This restoration can be executed through the Web Interface or even directly in accessing the REST API Web Service(s).
Nodeum is a data storage management platform which provide advanced features like :
Nodeum provides an indexed catalogue of all the files stored in the different managed tiers. Associated metadata is available and can be enriched with additional business workflow metadata.
This enables the powerful search engine, with which data and information can be found across in a single view interface.
All functionalities are supported by an open RESTful API, that allows for a tight integration.
This means that data movement, metadata and all other Nodeum functionalities can be triggered from the business workflow.
What are the benefits of LTFS (Linear Tape File System) ?
LTFS is an open system that allow tapes to act and be viewed as a file system. With this features, is easy to retrieve your data even if they are store on a tape media.
Why leverage S3 ?
With Nodeum cloud integration with S3, it's easy to manage the lifecycle management to migrate data stored in an Isilon to any supported Cloud Provider or even Object Storage. It can also migrate data back from any available Object Storage or Cloud Provider.
Interested to know more ? We invite you to open the published information about the integration of Nodeum and DellEMC products :
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