Intersect360 Research is out with a new whitepaper this week entitled: “Solving Big Data Problems with Private Cloud Storage.” The paper includes a case study on University of Leicester, which used Panasas ActiveStor to deploy a private cloud.
For private storage clouds to be effective, they must address several essential elements, including:
- Aggregation: Resources are pooled to leverage economies of scale in capacity and performance.
- Capacity on demand: Cloud solutions need to be able to scale dynamically to meet sudden increases in demand without negatively affecting performance, transparency, or ease of use for all other users.
- Resource allocation: Cloud resources need to be elastic to reallocate resources among users and groups according to demand, preference, and priority.
- Accounting: Organizations need tracking and prioritization mechanisms to handle the sharing of resources.
Panasas, an established provider of high-performance storage solutions for demanding HPC environments, has technology and expertise for designing solutions that address the essentials of these private storage clouds.
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In this video, Panasas Chief Marketing Officer, Barbara Murphy, explains how Panasas® ActiveStor™ parallel storage appliances perfectly support private cloud implementations.
