Flexible Architecture Enables Deployment from NAS to SAN
RainStor partners who commit to an Online Data Retention (OLDR) approach know that today’s Big Data is tomorrow’s even bigger data and so they are effectively future-proofing their solutions by leveraging RainStor’s inherent scalability.
RainStor can be deployed as a primary repository in the case of Machine Generated data, which comes off a network, or machine sensor readings that are collected and ingested into RainStor in a fast and efficient way. RainStor can also be deployed as a secondary repository in the case of a retention solution for compliance or further analysis, months or years after the original transaction took place. In both situations, the solution can be deployed on-premise and can run on a number of different operating systems and hardware environments.
RainStor supports a range of operating systems including:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 64 bit version 4 and 5
- CentOS 4.5 and 5.3
- Solaris 10 for SPARC
- IBM AIX
- Windows x86
- HP-UX
On-premise hardware environment options include:
RainStor is unique in the fact that you can store structured and semi-structured data on a CAS device (Content Addressable Storage) such as Dell’s DX or EMC’s Centera products. Because RainStor retains the data as objects, it can co-exist with the petabytes of unstructured data including email, files and images which provides customers with a unified device for all historical enterprise data.
Finally, because RainStor is such a flexible product which can be easily ported from on-premise to the cloud or a Hadoop distributed file system, you can future proof now for your evolving architecture strategy and approach. Because RainStor reduces the overall footprint of your retained data, your data center literally becomes more green as you then require less space, cooling and of course cost to run it.
