Solution BDT ORION und PoINT Archival Gateway
Orion S3: Scalable Object Storage on Tape
Tape-based object storage is the answer to the challenges of digitization and unabated data growth. Object-based data storage on tape offers decisive technical and economic advantages when dealing with constantly growing data volumes. Object storage provides scalability, reliability and high availability. The established S3 interface is a widely used standard. The storage medium tape offers high cost efficiency, combined with a small ecological footprint and important security fea tures.
The joint solution Orion S3 of PoINT and BDT is optimized for the use in data centers: it provides standardization on hardware and software level. The combination of the rack-mountable Orion MC6 tape library and the S3-to-Tape solution PoINT Archival Gateway meets the highest demands in terms of scalability, performance, sustainability and cost-effectiveness for the storage of large amounts of data.
Features
- Integration of the BDT Orion MC6 tape library via S3
- Direct writing to tape, no hard disk buffer required
- High throughput rates due to parallelization
- Flexible scalability in capacity and throughput
- S3 and S3 Glacier compatibility (including Lifecycle Policies)
- Erasure Coding
- Object Locking, authentication and encryption
- Optimized for hyperscaling and cloud environments
Benefits
- Investment protection through standardization: rack-mountable
library, LTO standard, standardized interface - Easy integration into the data center thanks to standardization
- Highly scalable overall solution through modularization of the library
and node architecture of the software - Cost-efficient solution for multiple use cases
- High level of protection against cybercrime and ransomware attacks
thanks to “air-gapped” tape
Use Cases
All S3-capable applications (S3 as well as S3 Glacier) can use PoINT Archival Gateway to store data on the Orion MC6 Library and benefit from the associated advantages of scalable S3 object storage.
S3 Backup
Orion S3 enables cloud-based backup services on tape via the S3 protocol. Customers benefit from physical air-gap and protect their data from ransomware, for instance.
Hyperscale Computing
The combination of the BDT Orion MC6 Library with PoINT Archival Gateway addresses application areas that are confronted with constantly growing data volumes and therefore require highly scalable solutions. Both components offer flexible scalability for increasing data volumes and achieve a particularly cost-effective and secure data storage on tape media.
Managed Servcie Provider
With Orion S3 storage service providers can expand their portfolio with a cost-effective, tape-based Glacier storage class. The BDT Orion MC6 Library fulfills the requirements in terms of capacity and performance. In addition, users benefit from the comprehensive functionality of PoINT Archival Gateway for archiving of cold data as well as for replication and recovery, for example to protect against cyberattacks.
HSM & Archiving
PoINT Archival Gateway offers various functions to meet archiving and compliance requirements. In combination with the BDT Orion MC6 Library, a flexible and highly scalable solution is available to archive large amounts of data in a legally compliant manner. The WORM functionality protects
data from accidental deletion and intentional modification (e.g. through ransomware attacks). The integrated retention management allows the activation of retention policies and retention periods on the level of an object repository. HSM applications can use PoINT Archival Gateway as target storage for secure and compliant archiving.
Research & Analytics
PoINT Archival Gateway allows direct data streaming to tape via the S3 interface. A hard disk buffer is not necessary. This greatly simplifies and streamlines the management of research data. Analysis data is written with high performance directly to tape and archived there securely and scalably until further use.
Object Storage Tiering &
Replication
Orion S3 is the answer to two central challenges in the context of diskbased on-prem object storage. On the one hand, companies need the possibility to backup their object data with a copy in their own data center so they can fall back on a fast recovery option in case of data loss. On the other hand, the primary storage systems need to be relieved of inactive data. With PoINT Archival Gateway and the BDT Orion MC6 Library a tapebased S3 storage class is available, which can be used as target for data replication as well as for tiering of cold data. PoINT Archival Gateway provides the appropriate functionality for both use cases.
Configuration Options
The BDT Orion MC6 Library in combination with PoINT Archival Gateway offers very flexible configuration options in terms of capacity (number of slots) and throughput (number of drives). The table shows some examples.
| #Libraries | #Slots | #Drives | Capacity in PB (LTO9) | Throughput in GB/s (LTO9) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,115 | 3 | 19,6 | 1,200 |
| 1 | 1,007 | 12 | 17,7 | 4,800 |
| 2 | 2,230 | 6 | 39.2 | 4,800 |
| 2 | 2,014 | 24 | 70.8 | 19,200 |