Versity S3 Tape Archive Engine

Seamless S3 to Tape Solution

Unlock high-performance S3 to tape storage with Versity’s S3 Tape Archive Engine. Designed for seamless and efficient data transfers, this platform 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 platform 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 Engine is designed with Spectra Cube and IBM 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 Engine is the ideal solution for organizations managing vast amounts of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data. It ensures secure, accessible data storage while seamlessly integrating with advanced storage infrastructures. As AI and high-performance computing drive exponential data growth, Versity’s platform provides cost-effective, long-term archival for industries such as scientific research and climate modeling. Its robust performance ensures high availability and rapid retrieval, making it ideal for data-intensive workflows

Key AI & HPC Benefits

Scalable Storage Architecture

Versity’s Tape Archive Engine 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 efficiency and sustainability in your data center with Cube and Diamondback tape systems. Our high-density, modular design optimizes power consumption and reduces costs, while seamlessly integrating with low-power tape systems. Intelligent automation ensures effortless access to reliable, long-term storage for AI model histories, simulation data, and other critical research outputs, preserving your data 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.

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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.

Warm and Cold S3 Data

Unlike solutions that are limited to Glacier, Versity enables seamless tiering between active and deep archival storage, allowing users to store frequently accessed data in cache and migrate colder data to tape as needed. This flexibility offers a distinct advantage for organizations needing dynamic storage options that optimize both performance and cost across AI, HPC, and other data-heavy environments.

Comprehensive API Integration

The archive engine 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.

How It Works

The Versity Tape Archive Engine 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 platform 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 Engine 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 platform’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.

Intuitive and Effortless

With a simple point-and-click interface, the S3 Tape Archive Engine requires no prior tape-specific knowledge, making it accessible to anyone, regardless of expertise. Installation is straightforward, allowing for quick setup and integration into existing systems without the need for extensive training. This ease of use empowers anyone in your organization to manage tape archiving effectively. By streamlining operations and minimizing the need for specialized staff, the S3 Tape Archive Engine enhances productivity and allows your team to focus on more strategic initiatives. Whether you’re an IT professional or a non-technical user, managing data archiving has never been more accessible or efficient.

Key Benefits

Personalized Support

Versity’s team of highly skilled engineers provides dedicated support, ensuring you have access to personalized assistance and expert guidance whenever you need it. Our world-class support helps you optimize your experience.

Vendor Agnostic and Future Ready

Built to be vendor-neutral and future-proof, the Archive Engine 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.

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.

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S3 Tape Archive Engine