
Introducing arcastream Storage
arcastream’s high-performance, data-aware, software-defined storage and networking solutions are specifically designed to accelerate the world’s most challenging scientific data workflows. arcastream’s pixstor storage combines flash, disk, tape, and Cloud storage into a unified system that is higher performing, limitless in scale and lower cost than traditional solutions. Data moves seamlessly through various tiers of storage – from fast flash to cost-effective, high-capacity object storage, all the way out to the Cloud – depending on how frequently it needs to be accessed. This allows research organisations to store valuable data more intelligently and economically.

The Software-Defined Economic Advantage
arcastream deploys its solution on software-defined, open standard hardware, with no vendor lock-in and standard data protection services – providing organisations tremendous economic advantage and purchasing power, now and into the future.

What Makes arcastream So Capable
arcastream is Powered by the IBM Spectrum Scale Parallel File System


Key Features
arcastream Enhancements to IBM Spectrum Scale
arcastream builds on top of IBM Spectrum Scale, delivering innovation across three areas: advanced software that expands IBM Spectrum Scale’s abilities, making it more useful and easier to deploy and manage; comprehensive solution design, to make sure customer workflow requirements and integration goals are met and exceeded; and all- inclusive, expertly delivered “disk to application” unified services and support.

arcastream Monitoring
- Hundreds of metrics for granular performance analysis through a single pane of glass that extends far beyond simple disk and network statistics
- Customizable, automated event/response mechanisms for every major component in the solution
- Alerting
- Pre-failure detection
- Auto correction
- Pool <-> pool data migration
- Historical problem logging and review
- Call home capabilities for proactive solution support
- Logstash plugins for system log analysis
- Elasticsearch plugins for redirecting performance counters to external elastic instances


Advanced Analytics
Finding migrated data among vast cloud or object stores is easily facilitated with the included search function that can automatically harvest user and application metadata from files allowing lost files to be found by metadata type with simple drill down interface that generates proxy images, videos, audio and documents for quick browse.
Powerful, Easy Search Capabilities
Finding migrated data among vast cloud or object stores is easily facilitated with the included search function that can automatically harvest user and application metadata from files allowing lost files to be found by metadata type with simple drill down interface that generates proxy images, videos, audio and documents for quick browse.

arcastream Fully Protected Storage


arcapix Python and REST API
- The arcapix Python API provides an easy to learn, pythonic interface for IBM’s complex command line tools for Spectrum Scale
- The API extends integration of various Spectrum Scale functions to applications and users.
- Metadata search and retrieval
- Data lifecycle curation
- Snapshot control
- Security Management
- Rapid development of new automations and interfaces
- arcastream’s OAuth2 compliant REST interface also provides:
- Simple GET/PUT interaction with the filesystem
- Asynchronous control of all available management features
arcastream Web Interface
- Gateway to all visual arcastream tools
- Secure, single pane of glass interface for monitoring and managing daily GPFS tasks
- Snapshot control
- Fileset management
- Performance Dashboards
- Capacity Analytics
- NFS and SMB Share management
- Remote call home enablement
- Support logging
- Built on arcapix Python API

Result: An Easy to Manage Storage Platform
- Centralized control of all major file system components from a single interface
- Python and REST API for file system automation over and above what is provided with Spectrum Scale
- Vastly reduced complexity for otherwise difficult to manage file system components (condense pages of scripts into just a few lines)
- Pythonic and REST-compliant toolset can be used to create customized web interfaces over and above what is provided with the solution
- Open source monitoring, alerting and performance analytics tailored to the exact needs of the administrative workflow
- Treats proprietary Spectrum Scale metrics as an data source that can be used in open visualization packages such as Grafana
- arcastream offers hybrid managed services packages, extending your administration team with a trusted and knowledgeable source


Tightly Integrated with the Cloud
In addition to transparent data tiering to the cloud, arcastream storage facilitates effortless, highly efficient Cloudbursting onto unlimited compute nodes when needed, minimizing data transfer and maximizing data locality between data stored on premises and cloud computing resources. Results are automatically transferred directly back to on-premises storage with no manual intervention.
Direct Access to Knowledgeable Expertise – No “Briar Patch” Support
- Bi-Annual solution performance review
- Upgrade planning consultancy for system hardware/software refresh
- Spectrum Scale policy implementation and management
- Network topology review and tuning
- Capacity and performance analysis for planning and growth

How We Work
