StorCycle Perpetual Storage

StorCycle Perpetual Storage

With the advent of StorCycle, Spectra Logic has introduced a new storage tier known as the Perpetual Tier – shown in the diagram below. The Perpetual Tier complements an organization’s existing Primary Tier of storage and provides lower-cost storage options, including public/private cloud, BlackPearl and tape. StorCycle leverages metadata to help administrators identify and migrate inactive data into the Perpetual Tier, leading to cost savings and high data integrity and safety, all while leaving data easily accessible and searchable.

The Primary Tier holds all active data and is most commonly composed of flash, NVMe and high-performance disk drives, in order to achieve the performance required for workflows associated with highly active data. Combined with the Perpetual Tier, StorCycle can ensure that data is stored on the most pragmatic storage medium possible – whether that means storing a long-term copy in an offsite data vault or maintaining a copy on the fastest SSD tier allowable. The Perpetual Tier is used for secondary storage, distribution, backup, archive, and disaster recovery. By reducing data on the Primary Tier, dedicated to performance, smart organizations can configure the more economical Perpetual Tier to be as responsive as their workflows demand.

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An important principal of the Perpetual Tier is data integrity and safety. Because data stored in the Perpetual Tier is not part of the typical backup process used in the Primary Tier, keeping multiple copies of data in multiple locations is critical to reduce the likelihood that the data will be lost. StorCycle makes it easy to set up policies to store and delete data in the Perpetual Tier in this manner as data progresses along its lifecycle. For more information on ways to protect data and understand the options available, download a copy of “Society’s Genome.” This book, authored by Spectra CEO Nathan Thompson, provides a deep dive into different storage retention options and best practices to ensure your data is always accessible.
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– Ian Crawford, Chief Information Officer, Imperial War Museums

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– 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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