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LizardFS team

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To scale, or not to scale, that is the question...

The growth of your business means the growth of your data, often exponential. How to scale your to keep up?

Your vendor will be telling fairytales about unlimited scaling, but what's the reality? At some point in time, you'll start losing on performance due to a growing number of users. Then the cost of yet another "storage box" will knock you out. So, theoretically, you can scale, but at what cost?

Is there a way out? Sure, it is! The benefit of being is you're not dependent on the hardware, thus you've got virtually no limits.

Unlike other solutions, LizardFS is linearly . That means you can add both users and storage space without losing performance. You can add a disc or even a whole – just plug it in. LizardFS will automatically make sure everything works properly. With LizardFS, the more nodes you have – the more performance you get disregarding the number of users.

Is scaling with LizardFS limited? Practically no: you can scale up to 16 EB. Our current record is just over 1 EB of cold archive data on a single cluster!

Interested in learning more about how we protect data? Reach out to us at [email protected]

What about accessing the on your cluster? Not a big deal with obviously. But what if you run a post-production company and your team is doing 4K renders on Macs or Windows?

Your vendor says no problem, we'll set up a "gateway". That means they will set up intermediary for your Macs and Windows to access the .

Sounds reasonable, but what 3 downsides your vendor didn't mention?

1. Gateway server is a single point of failure. If it fails – any of your clients won't have access to the data. Setting up a few of them could be a solution but that's a lot of additional costs...
2. Performance will plunge when you add more clients. As a result: a huge cost of scaling or not able to scale at all.
3. Configuring gateways in a safe way isn't that easy. You want your storage to serve your business goals rather than be your sysadmins headache.

There is a better solution though! native clients for Windows & macOS enable accessing the data cluster directly without intermediaries.

As a result: no single point of failure, no limit for scaling the number of clients, configuring easier than installing CounterStrike.

The choice is obvious, isn't it?

Interested in learning more? Reach out to us at [email protected]

Still think that of your data storage isn't that important? Well, here's a quote from the article below:

"It had previously taken Seagate 36 years to ship its first zettabyte in total. It then took less than another four years to reach a total of two zettabytes shipped, and just over two more years to accomplish a total of three zettabytes shipped since the company’s founding."

Sounds impressive, isn't it? Currently, our record is a cluster with over an exabyte of cold archive data. If there's a strong demand for linear data storage scalability in your business, reach out to us, we will be certainly able to help you!

https://www.crn.in/news/seagate-first-to-ship-over-3-zettabytes-of-data-storage-capacity/

Seagate first to ship over 3 Zettabytes of data storage capacity - CRN - India Read Article Seagate Technology has shipped three zettabytes of hard drive storage capacity, surpassing that milestone in March 2021. It had previously taken Seagate 36 years to ship its first zettabyte in total. It then took less than another four years to reach a total of two zettabytes shipped, a...

As an open-source organization we are happy to celebrate 30th anniversary of Linux! We can’t imagine LizardFS without thinking about Linux, so thank you for being with us!

The Linux Foundation, you’re doing great job, keep going! The world runs on !