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StorageSwitch File System Gateways

Basic Features

Advanced Features

Optional Features

CAS Content Integrity Checker

Validate content integrity in Centera or CAStor

CAS Data Asset Management Suite

Utility apps to better manage CAS Data (Q1-07)

 

 

Basic features across all StorageSwitch file system gateways

  • Industry Standard Protocols: CIFS, NFS, FTP, WebDAV including muti-protocol shares
  • Authentication and access controls using LDAP, Active Directory®, IP Access and other industry-accepted standards
  • Single point-of-access management: Access to all gateway components through a secure web interface
  • High Availability
    • Sub-second fail-over
    • Software error detect and restart
    • Hardware redundancy
    • Multi-pathing
    • Load-balancing
    • Clustered configurations
  • High performance
    • Load balancer standard
  • Scalable to billions of objects
    • In a single mount point or,
    • In 1000's of mount points
    • Efficient storage (average 250 bytes per file)

 

Advanced features to StorageSwitch file system gateways

  • SEC grade compliance
    • Directory and file-level retention periods
    • NetApp Snaplock®-like retention periods
    • Secure clock
  • File system versioning
    • Maintain multiple versions, even in file systems that don't support versioning!
  • Ability to write data to multiple targets, prioritizing which tier data is to be read from.
  • Additional integrity validations (hash values)
    • Select one or more from: MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, Tiger, Whirlpool.
  • Database access
    • Standard SQL access
    • Generate your own reports on storage

 

Optional Features for StorageSwitch file system gateways

  • Encryption, (by volume or by object).
  • Shareview - the ability to view any file system content in a "view"  defined by the administrator.  Imagine being able to re-purpose existing files.  Simply create a new view of the file system to expose users - or abusers - that have inordinate amounts of MPEGs stored.  Views can also be used to display alternate metadata not normally available in a file system presentation. Note, Shareview currently requires that our professional services make the configuration changes to enable shareview functionality.
  • Shareview - the ability to view any file system content in a "view"  defined by the administrator.  Imagine being able to re-purpose existing files.  Simply create a new view of the file system to expose users - or abusers - that have inordinate amounts of MPEGs stored.  Views can also be used to display alternate metadata not normally available in a file system presentation. Note, Shareview currently requires that our professional services make the configuration changes to enable shareview functionality.
  • Custom plug-ins

 

CAS Content Integrity Checker

Look inside your Content Addressed Storage Array, (either Caringo CAStor, or EMC Centera) and validate that the data that should be there is there, is readable, and is valid.

  • Validate:
    • A single object
    • A list of objects (usually all of the objects in a list provided by an application)
    • All objects in the array. (Centera only, as CAStor has no ability to report what is stored inside - only the application knows.)
    • Of course all metadata is validated, along with the content object.
  • Report
    • Summary reports on total number of objects, amount of unique data stored etc.
    • Detail reports on all objects that are unreadable, or do not validate against independent inspection.
  • Standard SQL Access
    • Access to all of the data is available by any industry standard SQL reporting tools.
 

CAS Data Asset Management Suite

A suite of products to better manage your CAS environment. See inside, validate, index, backup, migrate. The first product - the CAS Content Integrity Checker is shipping now. Other components will ship throughout the first half of 2007.