As the demand for storage grows in both the consumer and commercial sector, companies are looking for new solutions that can affordably scale not to terabytes, but to Petabytes. We have established ourselves as a leading provider of petabyte storage solutions to businesses across the UK and the Unites States.
To put it bluntly, a petabyte is a lot of data! Here's what a Petabyte of data look like in ever day figures.
20 Million Four-Drawer Filing Cabinets filled with text
13.3 Years of High-Definition Video
Size of 7.5 Billion Photos on Facebook
It would take 223,000 DVDs (4.7Gb each) to hold 1Pb
A petabyte of songs would last over 2,000 years playing continuously
Some people find it difficult to comprehend a petabyte of storage, and just how it would look. Well with our PetaRack petabyte storage solutions, it's actually suprisingly 'ordinary' looking!
Enterprise-Class 6TB SAS/SATA Hard Drives
U of Rack Space taken by 3x 4U JBOD Appliances
Header Nodes to manage the Enterprise Class Storage
As the world's hunger for storage sharply rises year on year, more and more companies require petabyte storage solutions. Here at Broadberry Data Systems we're proud to supply some of the worlds largest users of data with our high performance storage solutions.
Our Petabyte storage solutions are completely customisable making them perfect for a wide range of uses, from cold storage to high-performance hot storage.
Our customers use a wide range of storage operating systems from open-source linux distributions to Windows and ZFS-based solutions, below is a basic comparison of the 3 most popular operating systems we supply our petabyte storage configured with.
JovianDSS | Windows Storage Server 2012 | Nexenta NexentaStor | |
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Filesystem | |||
ZFS | NTFS | ZFS | |
Characteristics | |||
Maximum storage | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Maximum volume size | Unlimited | 256TB | Unlimited |
Operating System Architecture | 64-bit | 64-bit | 64-bit |
File System Architecture | 128-bit | 64-bit | 128-bit |
High availability | |||
Active-Active iSCSI | |||
Active-Active Fibre Channel | |||
Active-Passive iSCSI shared storage cluster | |||
Protocols | |||
iSCSI | |||
NAS (SMB/CIFS, FTP, Secure FTP, HTTP, NFS v2, v3) | (Single Mode) | ||
Fibre Channel | (Single Mode) | ||
IP over Infiniband | |||
Features | |||
Caching | Native, tiered RAM and SSD | Native, tiered RAM and SSD | Native, tiered RAM and SSD |
Thin Provisioning | |||
Deduplication | |||
Compression | |||
Replication | |||
Snapshots | Unlimited | 512 per volume | Unlimited |
Certifications | |||
VMware Ready | |||
Citrix Ready | |||
Hyper-V Ready |
The uses of Broadberry's range of petabyte storage solutions are almost infinite, from the BBC archiving the programmes we grew up watching, to CERN using them to store big data collected researching how our universe was created.
In today's world, storage appliances are used in almost every aspect of our lives across all market sectors and industries. The flexibility and configurability of Broadberry petabyte storage solutions make them very popular in a wide range of markets.
The education sector is a very popular user of CyberStore appliances due to it's competitive pricing compared to Dell and HP and data deduplication feature that compresses data by up to 70%. We supply our storage solutions to all 10 out of the top 10 universities in the UK including Oxford and Cambridge as well as many colleges and schools.
Another big market for the Broadberry CyberStore® range is IP Surveillance, with storage requirement rapidly growing as HD cameras become the norm, the CyberStore DSS' renowned reliability, fast performance and high availability make it the perfect solution to store this data securely and cost-effectively.
Avant de quitter nos ateliers, toutes les solutions de serveur et de stockage Broadberry sont soumises à une procédure de test rigoureuse de 48 heures. Ceci, associé à un choix de composants de haute qualité, garantit que toutes nos serveurs et solutions de stockage répondent aux normes de qualité les plus strictes qui nous sont imposées.
Notre principal objectif est d'offrir des serveurs et des solutions de stockage de la plus haute qualité. Nous comprenons que chaque entreprise a des exigences différentes et sommes en mesure d'offrir une flexibilité inégalée dans la personnalisation et la conception de serveurs et de solutions de stockage.
Nous nous sommes imposés comme un incontournable fournisseur de stockage en Europe et fournissons depuis 1989 nos solutions de serveurs et de stockage aux plus grandes marques mondiales. Quelques exemples de clients :