NetApp StorageGRID

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Object storage that enables management of your unstructured data across hybrid and multicloud environments
The Challenge

Today’s unprecedented growth in unstructured data presents enterprises with opportunities to uncover new customer engagements and revenue streams. To keep pace, IT must overcome the challenges of keeping up not only with the volume of data, but also with changes in how data is stored and accessed. Users need IT to support a plethora of applications varying from traditional workloads to cloud-based applications, with access to the data across many locations: inside the data centers, remote offices, and the public cloud.

Object storage through cloud-based data management is quickly becoming the norm, but it doesn’t come without its fair share of concerns:

  • Is my data safe? What happens if my requirements change?

  • What is cost-effective today and tomorrow? Does choosing one solution create vendor lock-in?

  • Can I meet performance needs with data that lives both on premises and in the public cloud?

The Solution

NetApp® StorageGRID® is a software-defined, object-based storage solution that supports industry-standard object APIs like the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) API. It allows you to build a single name space across up to 16 data centers worldwide, with customizable service levels for metadata-driven object lifecycle policies. The integrated lifecycle management policies optimize where your data lives throughout its lifecycle.

StorageGRID optimizes your data durability and availability across multiple geographies. It enables hybrid cloud workflows—whether your data is on premises or in a public cloud—to fit your business demands with access to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Microsoft Azure Blob, Amazon Glacier, Elasticsearch, and similar services.

Key Benefits
Scale: Distribute Across Clouds

Take advantage of the public cloud to process, transform, and analyze objects and metadata while securing your data in an on-premises object store.

Simplify: Enable Global Data Governance

Protect data and comply with regulations by using geo-distributed replication and layered erasure coding; write once, read many (WORM) retention; access control policies; encryption; and audit trails.

Accelerate: Store Data Efficiently

Optimize data availability, performance, geo-distribution, retention, protection, and storage cost with metadata-driven policies, and adjust them dynamically as the business value of data evolves.

Enable the Hybrid Cloud

Reduce costs without sacrificing durability with StorageGRID layered erasure coding (EC). Protect against failed disk drives and rapidly rebuild lost data segments with node-level EC and protect against site-level disasters with geo-distributed EC. You can combine replication and geo-distributed EC to balance performance needs and cost savings between different sets of data or during an object’s lifecycle.

StorageGRID offers industry-leading hybrid cloud integration with user-controlled platform services. You can keep your data in a local private cloud while taking advantage of public cloud offerings. Storage tenants can configure mirroring of select objects at the bucket level to an S3-compatible public cloud. You can trigger hybrid cloud workflows by integrating S3 notification of events in your on-premises buckets with Amazon SNS. You can gain further value with metadata search and analytics by streaming object metadata to an external Elasticsearch service, on premises or in the public cloud.

StorageGRID lets you take advantage of industry-leading Amazon S3 APIs, such as object versioning, multi-part upload, Amazon Identity and Access Management–style access policies, cross-origin resource sharing, and object tags. With Active Directory and LDAP identity federation for Amazon S3, StorageGRID bridges the gap between enterprise IT and cloud semantics.

Cloud-to-cloud data management can also enable cost savings. StorageGRID can manage and store objects in its own globally distributed infrastructure, and also in Amazon S3 or S3-compatible object stores or public clouds. Depending on your locality or cost needs, you can add a cloud copy through Cloud Storage Pools to Amazon Storage and Glacier, or to Microsoft Azure and Blob as a cloud storage tier.

Facilitate Compliance with Tamper-Proof Data Retention

StorageGRID offers many features to help you meet your regulatory obligations. Storage tenants can configure WORM retention and litigation holds for objects by buckets. You can configure StorageGRID so that compliance data is stored with duplicate copies or logical equivalents, such as erasure-coded objects. You can secure your data with software-based encryption, built-in audit trails, and with FIPS drives on select StorageGRID appliances.

Many unstructured data applications require NAS protocols. The StorageGRID NAS protocol bridge supports SMB and NFS access and enables object access to these files by using the Amazon S3 API. You can run your current workload while being proactive about next-generation applications that natively support object protocols.

Proven Software Designed for Nondisruptive Operations

StorageGRID is an 11th-generation object store with nearly two decades of production deployments in the most demanding industries. With the strength of the portfolio, NetApp has demonstrated more than 20 years of product hardening with over 1 million systems shipped. With advanced features such as the NetApp Active IQ® intelligence platform for proactive, immediate response and with backing by NetApp’s world-class support organization, StorageGRID is a solution that you can trust with your critical data assets.

Flexible Deployments

Because every deployment is unique, StorageGRID aligns with your environment, whether that includes nodes as virtual machines (VMs), as optimized hardware-based appliances, as bare-metal servers with Docker containers, or as a combination across virtual and physical environments. In all cases, designing, deploying, and managing StorageGRID is a centrally managed and streamlined process allowing you to rapidly deploy petabytes of storage.

The StorageGRID range of appliances now provides the option for increased simplicity of deployment with its new services appliance. The SG1000 service appliance delivers an enterprise grade load balancer with full HA capabilities as well as the option to host StoragegGRID admin nodes. This enables customers to streamline deployments by implementing “all appliance grids”. Customers have the flexibility to operate the node or HA node pair as a load balancer, an administrative node or both roles simultaneously.

Deploying NetApp StorageGRID appliances creates an enterprise-grade turnkey solution that is easy to implement. Each appliance was built to solve specific performance or capacity needs. You can also deploy software-only StorageGRID nodes as containers on physical or virtual servers, taking advantage of heterogeneous storage underneath.

About NetApp

NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. We provide a full range of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications and data across cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital transformation. Together with our partners, we empower global organizations to unleash the full potential of their data to expand customer touchpoints, foster greater innovation and optimize their operations. For more information, visit www.netapp.com. #DataDriven.

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