SUPERMICRO® SERVERS EXCEL AS A WEKAIO REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE
Unstructured data is a customer’s most valuable asset, which must be preserved and protected forever. However, relentless data growth and retention trends drive demands for more efficient, resilient, and secure Exabyte-scale storage solutions. These demands continue to pressure IT budgets and administrators. Simultaneously, organizations are looking to unlock the value in their data, which makes the task even more challenging. The correct storage architecture can allow organizations to leverage more of their data and make facilitating ‘data forever’ a realistic prospect. Jointly with our market-leading, strategic partners, Supermicro can easily transition from legacy storage to next-generation storage platforms.
WekaIO™ was founded on the idea that current storage solutions have forced IT organizations to choose complex solutions to address their highest storage need at the expense of other desirable capabilities. The three dominant architectures are block, file, and object, each servicing a different need: speed, shareability, and scalability in that order. In today’s “data-as-a-service” market, organizations need a flexible infrastructure that addresses the many business needs within a single framework. The design philosophy behind the Weka file system – WekaFS – was to create a single storage architecture that runs on-premises or in the public cloud with the performance of all-flash arrays, the simplicity and feature set of network-attached storage (NAS), and the scalability and economics of object storage.
