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News Release from: Kodak Graphic Communications Group | Subject: Exastore
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2004
KPG Makes Room In UK For New Data
Storage System
A breakthrough new solution to the growing challenges of reliable access to increasing quantities of digital data is now available from Kodak Polychrome Graphics.
A breakthrough new solution to the growing challenges of reliable access to increasing quantities of digital data is now available from Kodak Polychrome Graphics with the UK launch of Exanet's scalable storage system, Exastore Exanet's solution is already selling exclusively via KPG in North America and the distribution agreement has recently been extended to include Europe
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company is targeting it at large commercial printers with or without prepress facilities, medium-sized commercial printers with prepress facilities, pre-press houses, publishing houses and large advertising agencies.
Terry Baber, UK managing director for KPG said: "As we help our customers migrate to digital working, sooner or later they come up against the data storage issue and this solution is perfect for companies storing one terabyte of data or more.
As data expands, the demands of capacity and bandwidth grow relentlessly.
Eventually, the data spreads across a patchwork of separate, isolated storage systems, and users have to navigate their way through islands of data linked by complex networking." KPG said that its customers tell it that operators can spend up to 20% of their time just managing data.
"That is a major drain on resources, and without a solution things will get more difficult as data and applications become more diverse and production more dispersed," added Baber.
Existing systems include high-end enterprise products that hold all data on a single monolithic central storage system.
They use a method called storage virtualisation, which attempts to ease the problem by inserting software or hardware between servers and storage systems to create the illusion of one storage system.
Exastore's approach to data storage has been to create the first storage system that independently scales capacity, performance and I/O while drastically simplifying operation and management.
Its foundation on off-the-shelf industry-standard servers provides customers with a low-cost entry-point and a modular growth-path.
The system is said to consolidate the entire network-attached storage infrastructure into a single, limitlessly expandable resource.
With patents pending, it consists of modules that contain processing, I/O and cache resources, which can be added as needed without practical limit to increase capacity, bandwidth and I/O.
Capacity or performance modules can be added independently without disrupting data availability, and the file system can expand to make use of added capacity.
This allows the system to grow almost without limits and significantly reduces reconfiguration time for users.
The system optimises performance on the fly, routes traffic, creates copies of frequently requested data in its cache and allocates bandwidth from moment to moment to avoid hot spots to ensure fast access to information.
The elimination of manual steps improves reliability and reduces system administration.
It automates time-consuming storage administration, such as disk grooming, load balancing, data relocation, volume allocation and volume management.
It also auto-detects when new nodes are plugged in, disk arrays added or other changes made to underlying storage subsystems - eliminating the need for manual reconfiguration, claimed KPG Compatible with users' existing systems Exastore supports NFS, CIFS, and ATS file protocols.
It integrates with existing system management frameworks such as Openview, Tivoli, CA-Unicenter, and others, and can use legacy RAID devices, speeding initial implementation and reducing upfront costs.
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