Central Storage for Content Distribution

Rich media content is finding its way into many businesses. This is unstructured data such as images, audio clips, and video. Storage requirements for this type of data can easily extend to multiple megabytes per individual item and is often variable in size and therefore unpredictable.

 

Planning for and managing this content as it grows in size to dozens or even hundreds of terabytes can be a daunting challenge. Infrastructure expense, data protection and security and adequate backup and recovery are just a few of the challenges.

 

Depending on the application and user volume, delivery of this content can also be a concern. These data files are generally large and require substantial storage and networking bandwidth.

 

Using traditional on-premise storage devices for rich media content distribution has limitations. Bulk purchase increments require costly and frequently flawed assessments of future growth needs. Knowing how much capacity to buy is nearly impossible, and missing the mark has expensive ramifications; under-provision and you need to buy and manage multiple small arrays; over-provision and you are left with costly unusable capacity depreciating in your data center. Single storage arrays are also limited in storage access bandwidth and network connectivity.

 

Using today's existing Web 2.0 cloud storage solutions for content distribution is a popular choice. They do, however, use proprietary APIs (encouraging vendor lock-in), lack default encryption, and offer inadequate data integrity schemes.

 

Enter Zetta. Zetta offers:

 

  • On-demand capacity provisioning with no requirement for upfront purchase
  • Unlimited capacity scaling
  • Scalable, multiple network connections (MPLS or leased-line access) to Zetta Cloud Storage to support content delivery requirements
  • Guaranteed data integrity, with a best-in-class RAID implementation and proactive error identification and auto-correction
  • Online, geo-diverse data storage for enhanced recovery
  • Standard storage access protocols with file system semantics, facilitating adoption without application rewrite and avoiding API-based lock-in

 

Zetta is an ideal solution for centralized storage for content distribution.