Western Digital Corporation today announced the introduction of a new entry-level storage system focused on addressing cloud-scale challenges. Expanding its existing systems, solutions and platforms portfolio, the new plug-and-play object storage system, the ActiveScale P100 system, provides the foundation for the future of petabyte (PB) scale storage infrastructure.
The company says, the ActiveScale P100 is the company’s latest integrated storage system, which disrupts the economics of scaling capacity into petabytes and enables the creation of massive data storage repositories across both on-premise and hosted cloud architectures.
The ActiveScale P100 joins the Data Centre System (DCS) business unit’s portfolio that also includes the Active Archive System, the InfiniFlash all-Flash storage platform and the disk-based platforms.
The ActiveScale P100 is an economic entry-level configuration that scales from 720TB to 2PB of raw capacity to meet application data growth needs in increments of easy-to-install capacities.
According to the company, the system is ideal for high-capacity demanding markets, including on-premise and off-premise cloud, life sciences, government/defence, and media and entertainment industry applications. The ActiveScale system easily addresses both capacity and performance challenges for data-intensive workloads such as large content repositories, media streaming and media services, data analytics, data protection and archiving.
‘Object storage is a key technology that has enabled hyperscalers to build cloud-scale infrastructure,’ said Terri McClure, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. ‘We believe that the ActiveScale P100 system will enable strong consistency at cloud-scale, and enables enterprises to achieve new levels of scale and flexibility far easier and at a much better cost point than traditional storage.’
List pricing for the ActiveScale P100 system starts at $0.22 per gigabyte and is available for immediate order.
