Overview

Data requirements are increasing as larger file formats are being cultivated and used in various industries; from big data in oil well mapping, analytics, and real-time 3D scanning straight to the cloud. No matter what industry you are in, the year-on-year increase in file sizes is increasing at an exponential rate thanks to the advancement and adoption of new technology.

Data is getting so big that some larger cloud platforms offer a truck facility to transfer your in-house data to a cloud upload point, with some companies taking months to complete the data based on round-the-clock transfers to 40-foot shipping containers filled with storage media. To alleviate this using a distributed block storage solution from day one or at the earliest possible convenience switching to this method of data storage may save you months of transfer time and expense down the line.

Everything is interconnected, with IoT, OT, and IT all becoming a larger mass of data, and increased levels of automation and analytics also exacerbating data challenges from scalability to speed of outdated technology.

Once data is in an NVMesh storage solution, the data storage is completely scalable and managed through a configurator software that allows you to distribute data into logical locations, add hardware and automatically load level and easily optimize data workflows. In addition to this, the configurator software allows you to automate snapshot backups, have a live backup that can be switched to automatically during a production system outage or hardware failure, and once complete automatically update new production hardware while it's being temporarily used as the production system.

NVMe protocol has been marked by Microsoft and other large technology companies as being the future thanks to two-way data transfer, low latency, and far higher bandwidths than current SAS or SATA alternatives. In fact, the only technology that will not benefit in terms of performance is tape drives which are limited by their design, and no other protocols after NVMe are on the horizon thanks to its scalability. If you are going to a new protocol then NVMe is the only option.

Logical division of data across data blocks allows for big data sets to be divided and stored in different locations, making the NVMesh storage solution not only faster but great for team members working on different parts of the data simultaneously; a major benefit of this technology. Data that is the lifeblood and IP of a company will also be better protected from cybercrime due to this data division over different devices.

No more downtime during hardware failures, no more bottlenecks based on bandwidth constraints, and limiting one-way read/write applications thanks to the NVMesh protocol. This technology is currently being adopted by the technology industry and eventually takes over from different protocols including SAS, SATA, and SCSI, and is distilled down to client machines.

Excelero’s NVMesh is a comprehensive web-scale SDS solution with the distributed data protection and storage provisioning that makes shared NVMe storage functional, practical, and easily operated.