RAIDn poised to revolutionize storage protection. (Top Technology Showcase).InoStor has recently announced RAIDn, deemed to be the revolutionary new way of protecting storage. The patent-pending technology is positioned to change the way businesses deploy RAID across storage networks by ensuring that mission critical databases are available even when multiple concurrent drive failures occur. "Some thought it couldn't be done, but the next evolution of RAID is here. With RAIDn the user just needs to decide how much capacity they want and how much security through disk redundancy Writing to two or more disks at the same time. Having the same data stored on separate disks enables the data to be recovered in the event of a disk failure without resorting to expensive data recovery techniques. RAID 1 and RAID 5 are common approaches to disk redundancy. they need. RAIDn does the rest with its unique structure of mathematical algorithms," said Ken Cruden, vice president of sales and marketing. "We envision that RADn will be implemented through operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , controllers or in storage devices to remove the obstacles users face today to achieving maximum levels of availability, reliability and capacity at a truly affordable cost. We expect Secured by RAIDn to become a new standard of optimal storage protection." InoStor's RAIDn is a software library with a set of patentpending algorithms that implement a revolutionary parity parity or space parity, in physics, quantity that refers to the relationship between an object or process and the image that it can produce in a mirror. scheme across an array of disk drives. This patent-pending technology allows system administrators to select the level of "insurance" desired against the failure of one or more disk drives in a RAID array, all the way up to N-1 drives (where "N" indicates the total number of drives in the array). Initially available in Linux, the technology can also be easily implemented in other operating systems and at the hardware level. RALDn is a new methodology for placing data on disk drives, offering high reliability storage space for actual data and is less expensive than traditional RAID solutions. "Imagine being able to ensure your data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. in a NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular device by determining the number of drive failures you want to protect and still being able to put data on every disk in the system," said David Licosati, vice president of NAS Business Development. "RAIDn has the potential for use in numerous applications and industries where the reliable transmission of critical data is a priority. Our first practical application will appear in NAS devices. In test after test we have proven that when RAIDn is incorporated our NAS device can handle a three drive failure on a nine drive system with continuous high performance achieved. Furthermore, there is no cost penalty for additional parity drives A separate disk drive that holds parity bits in a disk array. See RAID. as required in a typical RAID 1+0 solution." Both "read" and "write" performance for RAIDn are on a par with conventional RAID 5 implementations, and faster than typical compound RAID 1+5 or RAID 5+5 configurations. RAIDa provides similar protection to today's most expensive storage reliability--RAID 1+5 (mirroring with parity)--and with far fewer disk drives. Or, using the same number of disk drives, RAIDn provides about twice the data capacity of a RAID 1+5 solution. "RAIDn has been in development for eight years. The longterm investment brings a technology to market at a time when security and reliability are more significant concerns than ever before. While the first application is in data storage it is clear that RAIDn will be a significant component whereever data is transmitted and stored," said Alton Keel keel 1. the ventrally directed large surface of the bird's sternum, the site of attachment of the major muscles of flight. Called also carina. 2. the prominent area over the sternum in Dachshunds. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of InoStor Corporation. "InoStor is paving the way for users to achieve unheard of Not heard of; of which there are no tidings. Unknown to fame; obscure. - Glanvill. See also: Unheard Unheard levels of storage availability and data integrity when Secured by RAIDn." www.inostor. com |
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