THE ARCHIVE DILEMMA
The archive of engineering files when projects are concluded typically becomes a compromise between easy access (disk storage) and low cost (typically tape). You’d like to keep everything on disk, but as storage requirements grow, that isn’t cost effective. And while tape is cost effective, retrieving files can be problematic and IT-resource-intensive. This dilemma for IT departments of engineering and manufacturing companies isn’t necessary anymore, as there is a simple archive solution that provides easy access and cost-effective storage.
THE NEW ARCHIVE – ACCESSIBLE, INTELLIGENT, SIMPLE
- Store Active Content on High-Performance Disk
- Move and Copy Files to Cloud, Object Storage, or Tape—Without Changing Access
- Reduce Storage and IT Management Costs Without Compromise
The new archive ensures your project files can be accessed, stored, and protected on the right storage technology without impacting your day-to-day workflow needs. Archive files are intelligently moved and copied from high-performance disk to less-expensive tiers of storage, reducing your overall storage costs without changing the directory structure, and thus not changing user access to the archived content.
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TIERED STORAGE: AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY TO GET MORE STORAGE
Advances in the development of autonomous vehicles are happening at a blistering pace. Vehicle manufacturers are racing towards the fully autonomous vehicle of tomorrow, and deploying the enabling technologies, as they’re proven out, in vehicles today. The need to stay competitive in this dynamic market is driving significant investment by the vehicle manufacturers and their technology partners.
Traditional IT storage solutions cannot scale affordably to support the massive growth of data generated from these new development processes. Technology providers and manufacturers need solutions that can scale capacity on-demand and cost-effectively, while enabling easy access to data for the development team. Intelligent solutions are needed that balance performance with cost, recognizing that some data is more active than others. The promise of safer, more autonomous vehicles is exciting, and intelligent storage solutions can accelerate the delivery of that promise.
TIERED STORAGE: IDEAL FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT
A tiered storage solution, built on the Quantum StorNext® platform, seamlessly integrates into your existing storage infrastructure, enabling the right mix of performance and cost while maintaining complete data access. Active data is stored on performance disk while inactive data is automatically moved to less-expensive storage tiers, like object, cloud, or tape automation. The NAS interface provides simple and consistent access to all data regardless of which tier it is stored on. Capacity and performance can be scaled seamlessly and independently as needed.
With a tiered storage solution, you maintain control of your storage infrastructure, even when unplanned events arise, and enable the development team to accelerate their pace of innovation.