DDN LEADS OBJECT STORAGE MARKET WITH 150
PERCENT GROWTH IN OBJECTS IN PRODUCTION;
SURPASSES 500+ BILLION OBJECTS
Upsurge in WOS Adoption Fueled by Demand for Software-only, OpenStack Swift and
Disaster Recovery Solutions
PRESS RELEASE
APRIL 19, 2016 - SANTA CLARA, CALIF.
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NEWS FACTS
DataDirect Networks (DDN) today announced a year of unprecedented growth in the usage of its
advanced WOS® object storage platform. In less than a year, use of the company’s object storage
solutions have grown by more than 150 percent to 500+ billion objects in production. Fast-paced
growth and strong demand for scale-out storage clouds have propelled DDN’s WOS to one of the
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industry’s top solutions based on the number of objects in production and have fortified DDN’s
position as a strong market leader in object storage. Continuing to fuel the pace of its object
storage momentum, DDN also announced the availability of its latest WOS platform release.
“The rapid rise in the adoption of WOS object storage is being driven by the need for high reliability,
cost-effective archive and backup storage solutions,” said Molly Rector, CMO, executive vice
president product management and worldwide marketing, DDN. “DDN’s relentless commitment
to delivering massively scalable, high-performance solutions that enable seamless collaboration and
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With the availability of the latest release of its WOS object storage platform, DDN continues
highly valuable data assets.”
to advance the development of its software-defined object-based storage technology. WOS
provides users with even greater network efficiency for data sharing, robust erasure coding
schemes, enhanced data durability and accessibility options needed for today’s web-scale
enterprises across a variety of industries including media and entertainment, research, life
sciences and education.
WOS possesses a powerful combination of high-performance, flexible protection, superior
multi-site capabilities and storage efficiencies that make it the perfect solution for a wide
range of use cases including active archive repositories, OpenStack Swift, data management,
disaster recovery, content distribution, distributed collaboration workflows, enterprise content
repositories, file sync and share, geospatial images, video surveillance, scale-out web and cloud
services, and video post-production. New features and capabilities include:
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New Security Enhancements, with new security features it is easier than ever to integrate
WOS into enterprise administration models using LDAP and Active Directory while also
protecting against the potential for malevolent intrusions through object communication
encryption;
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Increased Data Durability, with background data scrubbing to proactively identify and
correct silent data corruption, and robust enhancements to protect against malicious and
unintended data deletion to manage the secure retention of data and ensure it can be
recalled;
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Increased Data Availability, with node resume performance and high availability between
nodes with fail-over support that keeps data readily available;
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Enhanced Supportability and Manageability, making WOS easier to use and service
through seamless upgrade and simplified installation processes; and
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Increased Data Accessibility and Connectivity, with advanced feature support
for OpenStack Swift, S3, SMB (CIFS), NFS, Spectrum Scale™ and Lustre®, as well as
enhancements to cross-protocol locking for easy accessibility to data.
DDN WOS is the world’s most efficient object storage platform and can be deployed as either
optimized hardware appliances or software-defined storage to fit the requirements of diverse
environments seeking to build fully functional, scale-out storage clouds (private or public).
Purpose-built to address the relentless growth of data in the most adaptable and efficient
manner, WOS enables the creation of an almost limitless Exascale storage pool that exhibits
predictable and reliable high-performance at any scale. In addition, it provides easy management
by creating a single pool of storage based on heterogeneous commodity hardware while building
a highly reliable environment that can be tuned specifically to meet designated performance,
capacity and scalability needs.
“Getting a handle on data growth is a challenge that affects companies of every size. More
importantly, traditional storage architectures don’t offer the powerful data insight and distributed
management capabilities enabled by a metadata-rich object storage environment,” said Steven Hill,
senior analyst for storage technologies with 451 Research. “Customers looking to build the nextgeneration of hybrid, enterprise-class storage will find that object storage platforms, like DDN’s WOS
environment, offer data protection, visibility, scalability, efficiency and granular storage management
capabilities, as well as providing a seamless hybrid storage platform that extends to public cloud
resources such as Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure that are already based on object storage.”
AVAILABILITY
The new WOS enhancements are available as an upgrade to current customers and for new
shipments immediately.
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WOS PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS: NAB SHOW
2016 AND OPENSTACK SUMMIT
DDN is demonstrating its new WOS platform at NAB Show 2016 Booth #SL8016 in Las Vegas
this week and will offer demonstrations at the OpenStack Summit Booth #B6 in Austin, Texas,
April 25-29. To schedule a demonstration at NAB Show 2016, please register here. To schedule a
demonstration at OpenStack Summit, please register here.
“OpenStack continues to grow as a go-to open source platform,” added Rector. “As the leader
in supporting large-scale, cost-effective and high performance cloud initiatives, DDN has added
capabilities to our end-to-end WOS platform to better support OpenStack users to leverage
performance storage to achieve their organizational objectives efficiently and at the greatest ROI.”
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