S3 Tape Archive Module
Versity’s S3 Tape Archive Module seamlessly connects S3 object storage to tape. Optimized for AI and HPC workloads, it supports both warm and cold data, with fast, efficient transfers and no tape expertise needed. Built for hyperscalers, it ensures effortless scaling to meet growing data demands.
Effortless S3 to tape Integration
Unlock high-performance S3 to tape storage with Versity’s S3 Tape Archive Module. Designed for seamless and efficient data transfers, this module bridges the gap between object storage and tape. It provides a scalable and standard S3 interface with optimized support for managing both warm (cache) and cold (tape) data. No tape specific knowledge required! With multi-part uploads enabling parallel data transfers for large objects, the module maximizes speed and efficiency, ensuring your storage system can easily adapt to growing demands. Empower your archive strategy with the ultimate tape storage solution, tailored to enhance performance and scalability.
Modular, Hyper-Scaler Ready Tape Systems
To meet the demands of hyperscale environments, Versity Tape Archive Module is designed with Spectra Cube and Diamondback modular rack systems in mind. These systems provide highly scalable tape storage, allowing for exabyte-level capacities while optimizing data center space and energy consumption. Their modular architecture ensures easy scaling as data volumes grow, providing a flexible and efficient mass storage solution that aligns with the growing demands of AI and HPC ecosystems.
AI & HPC Optimized
The Versity Tape Archive Module is the ideal solution for organizations managing vast amounts of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data, offering seamless scalability and integration with cutting-edge storage infrastructures. Designed to support the most demanding environments, this module ensures your data remains secure, accessible, and efficiently managed across AI and HPC workflows.
Key AI & HPC Benefits
Scalable Storage Architecture
Versity’s Tape Archive Module seamlessly integrates with Cube and Diamondback rack systems, allowing for flexible scaling as your data grows. This integration ensures efficient operations without disruption, making it an ideal solution for hyperscale AI and HPC environments.
Seamless Integration with AI/HPC Ecosystems
Whether archiving massive AI training datasets or preserving HPC simulation results, Versity’s solution moves data efficiently across different tiers—tape, object, and cloud—based on cost and access needs. Our deep integration with AI/HPC tools ensures minimal disruption, leveraging the full potential of tape storage for large-scale data archiving within complex AI and HPC workflows.
Optimize Power and Cost
Maximize space and power efficiency in your data center with the high-density, modular design of Cube and Diamondback tape systems. Versity’s tape archive provides reliable long-term storage for AI model histories, simulation data, and other critical research outputs, ensuring data preservation for decades without degradation.
Fast Metadata-Driven Queries
Versity’s software leverages metadata indexing to enable rapid searches and queries without needing to access data stored on tape. This ensures quick retrieval of essential information, accelerating AI and HPC workflows by avoiding delays typically associated with tape-based storage systems.
Optimized Performance for Large Datasets
Versity’s software is optimized for managing and accessing large datasets, ensuring fast retrieval and smooth data flow for AI model training, HPC simulations, and other data-intensive processes. This performance optimization reduces latency and enhances productivity in demanding environments.
Unmatched High Perfomance
Achieve exceptional throughput to archival storage with speeds reaching up to 25GB/s in a 5-node cluster. With parallel data transfer capabilities, the system reads and writes data to mass storage devices across multiple channels per node, ensuring maximum efficiency and performance for even the most demanding archival workflows.
Seamless Object to Tape
Effortlessly archive objects directly to tape with full support for both on-premises S3 storage and public cloud services. This ensures that your data moves smoothly across storage tiers, offering a flexible solution that works with your existing infrastructure while reducing complexity.
Comprehensive API Integration
The archive module features extensive API coverage, allowing easy integration with third-party tools and site-specific workflows. Whether you’re automating processes or customizing operations, the robust API framework ensures smooth compatibility and flexibility in meeting your unique storage needs.
Tailored for AI and HPC Data Sources
With the explosive growth of data driven by AI model training, deep learning, and high-performance simulations, storage solutions need to evolve. Versity’s Tape Archive Module integrates seamlessly with AI and HPC data lakes, providing a robust solution for long-term, cost-effective archival. Data-intensive industries like scientific research, autonomous driving, and climate modeling can trust Versity to store massive datasets while maintaining rapid retrieval and high availability.
How It Works
The Versity Tape Archive Module supports multiple data ingestion protocols, ensuring compatibility with AI/HPC workloads. Whether your data originates from high-speed simulation outputs, vast datasets used in deep learning, or ongoing research projects, our module can handle the scale and throughput. This versatility extends across multiple protocols, including NFS, Samba, FTP, S3, and direct transfers, allowing it to seamlessly interface with various data pipelines regardless of the source or format.
Whether storing data in object storage, tape, or the cloud, the Versity S3 Tape Archive Module provides unmatched flexibility in managing extensive, evolving data collections. Its modular architecture allows the solution to scale both up and out as your data needs grow, ensuring that performance and capacity increase seamlessly. This makes it an ideal solution for organizations looking for a cost-effective way to handle growing data demands without sacrificing reliability or efficiency. The module’s ability to handle massive data sets across multiple mediums ensures that it can accommodate a wide variety of use cases, from scientific research and video production to enterprise data backup and archiving.
Featured Benefits
Scalable and Modular
Discover unparalleled scalability with Versity’s Archive solution. Tailored specifically for rack-based tape libraries, this product scales seamlessly to meet the growing demands of modern data storage. Whether you’re using Quantum’s single-rack tape system or IBM’s Diamondback, simply add tape racks to elevate your storage capacity while keeping your annual Versity subscription per rack. Each rack is optimized for peak performance, utilizing every resource and core within the system to its full potential. Whether expanding with additional racks or optimizing current resources, Versity’s Archive adapts effortlessly, delivering efficiency and scalability at every step. Embrace a future where your deep archive grows with your needs—only with Versity.
Optimize Power and Cost
Unlock the full potential of sustainable storage with Versity’s Tape Archive. Engineered to optimize power consumption and reduce storage costs, Tape Archive seamlessly integrates with low-power tape systems, ensuring energy-efficient operations that help lower your carbon footprint and energy bills. Its intelligent automation enables effortless use of cost-effective tape storage tiers, maximizing value while maintaining easy access to your data. With Versity’s Tape Archive, you’re not just archiving data; you’re embracing an eco-friendly, cost-optimized solution where every byte is stored smartly and every watt is used efficiently. Welcome to a smarter, greener, and more economical future in tape archiving with Versity.
Key Benefits
Intuitive and Effortless
With a simple point-and-click interface, the S3 Tape Archive Module requires no prior tape-specific knowledge, making it accessible to anyone, regardless of expertise.
Unrivaled Cost Efficiency
Leverage the power of economical and energy-efficient storage mediums to achieve significant cost savings, offering a more sustainable and budget-friendly alternative to traditional cloud storage options.
Vendor Agnostic and Future Ready
Built to be vendor-neutral and future-proof, the Archive Module ensures seamless compatibility across a wide range of storage technologies and generations, providing long-term scalability without the risk of vendor lock-in.
Open Source
Open source metadata combined with open source data formats gives customers complete control over data collections and aligns with long-term data preservation and data autonomy goals.
Flexible and Scalable Modular Architecture
Designed as a modular solution, this system can be expanded incrementally, allowing you to easily increase capacity and performance as your storage needs grow over time.
Featured Capabilities
Parallel Transfer
Versity’s Tape Archive can read and write data to mass storage devices and services through multiple data channels on each node in the cluster simultaneously. Large files or objects are segmented and written in parallel across a configurable number of data channels, ensuring fast and efficient storage. Smaller files or objects are distributed across channels using a round-robin algorithm, optimizing throughput and performance. Whether handling massive files or numerous smaller ones, Tape Archive maximizes data flow across your infrastructure for seamless, high-performance storage operations.
Extended Cache
Versity’s Tape Archive supports the optional ability to increase cache capacity by adding low-cost S3 object storage devices to extend the primary cache. This extended cache space is fully utilized, with the least-used data automatically evicted as newer data is stored, ensuring efficient cache management. Pairing extended cache storage with an all-flash primary cache creates an optimal balance of performance and capacity, allowing you to manage large datasets with speed and efficiency.
Rise to the challenge
Connect with Versity today to find out how we can tailor a solution to keep your organization’s data safe and accessible as you advance your mission.