![]() And that’s in essence what we are doing by by empowering metadata to be the manager of the data.”įlynn aims to change the relationship between data and infrastructure: “Changing the relationship is done through intent-based orchestration, through granular orchestration, through live data orchestration. He asks: “How can you have local to this user, local to this application, local to this datacentre? To each and every one of them simultaneously, without ever copying the data, without it being a copy of the data? It’s a different instance of the same piece of data. As Flynn says: “We are talking about universal access to the data.” And now Hammerspace emerges with its comprehensive offering. Komprise and others are building multi-vendor, multi-site file lifecycle management systems. Public cloud suppliers are establishing on on-premises beachheads, such as Amazon’s Outposts and Azure Stack. Suppliers, led by pioneering NetApp, are erecting data fabric structures covering the on-premises and public cloud environments. Unified block and filesystems get object support through S3. ![]() Gradually more and more single store-type environments are emerging. KVM and Nutanix AHV) and in the three main public clouds.Īccess a Hammerspace GDE white paper here. ![]() The Hammerspace software can run on bare metal servers, in virtual machines (ESX, Hyper-V. Hammerspace will dedupe and compress when replicating or moving data over the WAN when data is stored on object storage. Snapshots can be recovered at file level and also at the fileshare level Policies can be created for any metadata attribute including entity type, name, creation and modification date/time, and owner. Setting that aside, GDE supports persistent data in Kubernetes environments and treats clouds as regions, with cross-region access supported.Ī layer of file-granular data services exists above the storage silo abstraction layer and includes snapshots, replication, file versioning, tiering with policy-driven data movement, deduplication, compression, encryption, WORM, delete and undelete. Hammerspace took on this really tough innovation challenge and created an elegant, efficient, integrated solution.” Global DataEnvironment They have tried to build their own solutions, they have tried to integrate multiple data movers, storage solutions, and metadata management solutions and never been satisfied with the results. Molly Presley, SVP marketing, said: “For years, I have spoken to customers in Media & Entertainment, Life Sciences, Research Computing and Enterprise IT that constantly struggled with sharing their file data with distributed users. ![]() In effect, what we’re doing is elevating data to exist in an antigravity field able to access any infrastructure.” The idea is to keep data access points updated with the GDE metadata so that all data is visible and can be accessed from anywhere.ĬEO and founder David Flynn told Blocks and Files: “Data Gravity is central to the story. This can give applications on-demand access to unstructured data in on-premises private, hybrid or public clouds. It builds on Hammerspace’s existing file and object metadata-based technology that unified distributed file and object silos into a single network-attached storage (NAS) resource. That’s quite a mouthful, and it means what it says. Hammerspace, the unstructured data silo-busting supplier, has raised its game to provide a Global Data Environment (GDE) across file, block and object storage on-premises and in public clouds with policy-driven automated data movement and services. ![]()
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