Thursday, April 2, 2015

Structured for Knowledge: Big Data Storage

At the current rate of growth, enterprise data is set to increase 50 times by the year 2020 while the digital universe is set to explode to 40 zettabytes from the present 3.2 zettabytes. The storage structures utilized for collecting, storing and analyzing such huge volumes of digital content would require flexible as well as scalable infrastructure. Although these records are largely unstructured, an organization also has infinite structured sets of raw records. The information storage structures like relational databases and tables have long passed, giving way to the use of hyperscale computing environments, capable of storing and scaling depending on the data influx. These computing environments are usually designed to run analytics engines like NoSQL, Hadoop, and Cassandra. Typically equipped with PCIe flash storage, hyperscale computation is deployed either in combination with disk or stand-alone storage in the server, so as to maintain storage latency to the minimum.

A hyperscale computing environment comprises numerous commodity servers equipped with direct-attached storage (DAS), which is utilized by most large-scale enterprises for managing their records.  Besides their storage capacity and scalability, hyperscales also have computational capabilities that include fast response times for large sets of information. But for organizations that do not require too much computational speed, as well as scalable storage, clustered or scale-out Network-attached storage (NAS) is quite an effective solution. Furthermore, there is another big data storage option that can specifically tackle large and quantifiable number of files is the Object Storage. This storage media can scale large files and that too to very high capacities.

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