Galactic 3000 TB VSTOR Storage Enters Video Domain

Since it made a powerful entry into the network video industry, Galactic has been recognized by more and more customers for the excellent performance and high stability of its products. From iSCSI storage products to VSTOR storage array, that has been used in video selections, video blogs, and 3G video applications on the Internet. Recently, Galactic provided a video company with a mega VSTOR storage device that weighed 3.5 tons, and possessed a total storage capacity of 3000 TB. This device was used to build a high performance, super stability, large capacity backend video storage system to provide smooth, fast, stable video selection and live broadcast services during 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
To ensure unhindered communication, network security and stable performance and to create an excellent web environment during the Olympics, a “web blocking” policy was implemented. During that time all IDC service providers had to stop developing new business, computer systems could not pass in to or out of the system room, core equipment could not be rebooted, configured, or adjusted, therefore there were a lot of factors that could cause unstable network performance were eliminated to allow stable transition over a static network. “Web blocking” was already on the agenda, “golden July” was the last chance for IDC business operators to upgrade and maintain the system. Time is money. Now it’s ‘do or die’ time in the card game of Olympic service providers. As a specialized server storage R&D and manufacturing company, Galactic has established close relationship with a number of web video partners. Galactic is also carrying out sizeable projects to optimize storage software and hardware, video storage protocol, video format, and lower level code such as video data transfer. Bottleneck in video data storage and transfer that might occur on web TV has been resolved. With its complete and scientific storage solutions, Galactic is providing video industry with the most advanced and most reliable storage systems.
Galactic VSTOR storage system is completely independently developed. Since its entry into the market, Galactic has been enjoying unmatched reputation for developing high speed, secure, super capacity, unique, and unified cross platform internet data structure systems. It also holds an unmatched advantage in product technology. Single VSTOR storage equipment can support multiple host channel communication protocols, such as iSCSI, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, SAS, NAS. A logic volume can be connected with any one of these channels, or with multiple different channels - the application of so called Hybrid Storage Networking, which supports up to 8 storage protocol ports as well as storage port link redundancy and bundling, optimizes the path for data access, improves storage system’s read performance. Combining all these with virtual volume copy feature, performing data copying in virtual storage framework is 3-5 times faster than regular copying, old method or assistance from third party tools is no longer needed. Besides, features such as remote copying, mirroring, storage routing provide a powerful solution for data and application disaster prevention.

Video industry has very high requirements for storage systems. During the special time of Olympic Games, in addition to meeting the demand for huge data volume, storage system is required to provide quick response time, high stability, and excellent manageability. Galactic VSTOR storage system uses I/O acceleration technology, effectively diverges workload on the main bus and disk I/O, and satisfied the needs for centralized video storage. VSTOR’s management function running in the background can monitor and control both channel data and stored data, hence optimizing the coordination between storage and front-end applications, and improving storage system’s data service capability.
Galactic VSTOR storage series also features local mirroring, storage router, remote copying/mirroring/disaster prevention, and is the first to function with RAID530,630 advanced data protection feature, which enable construction of highly effective and stable storage system with customized configuration based on specific video applications, and is highly valued by video business owners. We believe that with advanced technology and consistent non-stop performance, Galactic VSTOR series will continue to atop the competition and take leadership position in a highly competitive storage market and video storage application domain.

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