Economical Long-Term Data Preservation

BlackPearl On-Prem Glacier* offers an on-prem glacier storage tier that is optimized for preserving long-term data at a low price point.  Object storage disk provides instant retrieval of data, and when paired with object storage tape, offers offline air gap storage that is secure and ransomware resilient.

Benefits of BlackPearl On-Prem Glacier

Glacier Tier of Storage

  • Integrates with applications that support AWS Glacier
  • Object storage disk provides instant retrieval of long-term data
  • Object tape provides a deep archive tier of storage for long-term retention

On-Prem Hybrid Cloud Storage

  • Delivers the long-term retention functionality of cold storage in the cloud with on-prem performance
  • Optimized for storing large, unstructured datasets at a fraction of the cost of public storage
  • Object storage disk scales up to 20PB of S3 storage in a single rack. Object storage tape expands to multiple exabytes of storage

Security and Ransomware Resiliency

  • Secure on-prem and offline air gap storage on tape protects data from internal and external threats
  • Object Lock provides ransomware protection ensuring objects cannot be encrypted, deleted or overwritten
  • Encryption at rest and in-flight eliminates unintended data exposure

Attack-Hardened Features


BlackPearl Nearline Gateway Use Cases

On-Prem Glacier configured with tape provides a cost-effectuve backup target for applications that support AWS Glacier

On-Prem Glacier can be configured with object storage disk for near-instant access to data and/or tape for long-term retention

On-Prem Glacier delivers secure online and offline air-gapped storage to protect data from internal and external threats, providing ransomware resiliency

BlackPearl Nearline Gateway Information

OverviewSpecificationsReference ArchitecturesExtensibility
100% AWS Glacier-Compatible Storage

  • The only S3 storage that accepts native AWS Glacier commands
  • Configured with object storage disk and/or object storage tape

Secure Ransomware Resiliency

  • Object Lock provides data immutability
  • Encryption secures data in-flight and at rest

Cost-Effective Scale-Up Architecture

  • 80TB to 20PB per object storage disk system
  • Scales to multiple exabytes of storage with object storage tape
BlackPearl V Series BlackPearl S Series BlackPearl X Series BlackPearl Expansion BlackPearl Expansion
Interface CPU With Motherboard Tape Connect Network CPU With Motherboard Tape Connect Network CPU With Motherboard Tape Connect Network Dual Power Supplies Dual Power Supplies
Single Up to 3 FC or SAS HBA 25 GbE Standard, 40 GbE optional Single Up to 3 FC or SAS HBA 25 GbE Standard, 40 GbE optional Single or Dual Up to 2×8 or 16 port FC or SAS HBA 100 GbE Standard SAS Interface SAS Interface
Internal Disk Drives 24 x 3.5″ SAS HDD’s 60 x 3.5″ SAS HDD’s 77 x 3.5” SAS HDDs 107 x 3.5″ SAS HDD’s
Flash Drives (Upgrade) 6 x 6.4 TB NVMe SSD’s (Upgrade) 10 x 6.4 TB NVMe SSD’s 24 x 6.4 TB NVMe SSD’s None None
Throughput Up to 1.6 GB/s to tape sustained Up to 4 GB/s to tape sustained Up to 9 GB/s to tape sustained
Expansion Up to 10 expansion chassis* Up to 9 expansion chassis* Up to 10 expansion chassis*
Capacity of Expansion 107 Drive or 77 drive expansion chassis options 107 Drive or 77 drive expansion chassis options 107 Drive or 77 drive expansion chassis options Up to 77 Drives per 4U Chassis Up to 107 drives per 4U chassis

For complete specifications, please contact your Spectra Representative
* In a 42U rack

Primary - BlackPearl S3 to On-Prem Glacier
Primary - BlackPearl S3 to On-Prem Glacier
Backup + BlackPearl S3 + On-Prem Glacier
On-Prem Glacier can be extended to include cloud data management software through a simple software update:

Vail
Unifies storage into a single namespace providing access to cloud services no matter where the data resides, automated placement of data across on-prem and cloud storage, and universal access to data

Resources

"When we set out on our search to find a storage solution capable of preserving Imperial War Museums’ substantial digital archive, there were specific criteria on which we were not willing to compromise. Spectra met all of our requirements and then some, and now continues to deliver with StorCycle’s storage lifecycle management capabilities."

– Ian Crawford, Chief Information Officer, Imperial War Museums

"We appreciate the collaborative relationship and Spectra’s attentiveness to incorporating our feedback and ideas into solution enhancements. Our continuing investment into Spectra technology on behalf of our organization has proven invaluable in helping us implement the next level architectural model taking us into the future."

– Eric Grau, Manager – Media Asset Management, Joyce Meyer Ministries

"The new library has just shy of 14,000 slots for tapes. We were able to easily move all 70 petabytes of existing data into the new system and have grown to 104 petabytes in size and have plenty of room for at least a year or two before we have to start thinking about expanding."

– HPC Linux Systems Engineer, OLCF

"We have to store a lot of data for long periods of time. A single microscope can capture 10TB of data in as little as a few hours, and a published breakthrough on cancer research can take anywhere from a few years to a couple of decades. The BlackPearl and tape solution from Spectra provides a scalable and cost-effective way to store multiple data workflows with varying retention requirements."

– Jeffrey McDonald, director of IT, Hormel Institute at University of Minnesota

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