ActiveScale is a scale-out object storage system acquired by Quantum in March 2020. Previously, ActiveScale was sold by Western Digital after their purchase of Amplidata in March of 2015. Focused on the storage demands of big data, media & entertainment file data, archives, and content repositories, the ActiveScale object storage system has the ability to scale to very large capacities with large numbers of objects while providing the availability, durability, and performance needed for those use cases.
There are three current modelsin the ActiveScale family, the P100, P100E3 and the X200. All systems execute the same embedded software.
Using commodity based platforms; ActiveScale object storage systems are built with a predefined configuration using dedicated 10GigE or 25GigE for the X200. A single namespace or storage pool is maintained across the multiple nodes.
Forward Error Correction with rateless erasure coding is used to distribute data across nodes and across geographies. Object data can be accessed in parallel, increasing the performance for bandwidth of data transfer. The controllers manage the spreading function with rateless erasure coding and control access. The distribution function will balance capacity across nodes, managing the non-disruptive addition of storage nodes. GeoSpread uses the same rateless erasure coding to distribute data across geographically dispersed systems. Agents are installed on nodes for out of band management and do continuous background integrity checking and healing. ActiveScale 5.5 added the ability for users to choose between strong and eventual consistency using Asynchronous GeoSpread.
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