May 1, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – High-end hosting services provider YellowFiber (http://www.yellowfiber.net) has chosen RELDATA to deliver a flexible storage platform, it was reported yesterday. The move is designed to cater for the company’s growth, which includes “customers demanding 10 to 50GB of storage growth per week and an overall demand for as much as 900GB of new capacity each month”. The solution chosen by the company is the RELDATA 9240 unified storage gateway which offers multiple file systems, each of up to eight exabytes in size.
"Previously we had a series of disjointed storage islands," explained YellowFiber’s CEO, Zak Thompson. "Storage pools were connected to different machines in the same cluster for load balancing and redundancy, and it became painfully complex to keep these in sync. This complexity was compounded by a lack of scalability in the file system. As the capacity requirements of some clusters grew, we were forced to constantly break out applications onto a new file server. We have one single storage pool and one central storage management device. The time needed for storage administration is a fraction of what is was before, and the simplicity of the system gives us more flexibility to deliver a better service."
"The openness of the RELDATA 9240 allows YellowFiber to recapitalize on its existing investments and gives them the freedom to add any third party storage for use in future capacity upgrades," added Fernando Sabio of Concentus (http://www. concentus.net), developers of RELDATA. "The solution offers the flexibility and scalability that YellowFiber needs to provide superior technical solutions that are ahead of their competition."
Headquartered in West Virginia, USA, YellowFiber specializes in managed high availability clusters for ebusiness and web infrastructures. Concentus supports government, academic, non-profit, and business customers seeking to “efficiently manage, store and protect their data”.
