Cloud Storage Acceleration

Cloud Storage Acceleration

One of the key advantages of Cloud Storage is the ability to access Cloud buckets from any location around the globe. However, this causes a particular problem for most cloud products – slow communication lines and distance being the chief culprits. BridgeSTOR has developed technology that sends files fast and efficiently into the Cloud while giving control of the system back to the user. Background threads do the work converting files to objects allowing cost savings and efficiency for corporations as users are not waiting for files to be moved to the cloud.

Writing files to Cloud Storage is a time consuming process. For backup applications, this may not be an issue but when you have users waiting for uploads it becomes very costly to the company. BridgeSTOR products use disk caches to help reduce the user experience. The Coronado NAS Gateway uses a Ingest cache and the Brooklyn NAS Edge Cache uses two caches. One for metadata and one for files.

Once the file is in the cache, it can been efficiently moved to the cloud while the user is off doing something productive. BridgeSTOR processes file to object conversion with background threads. Once the file is closed, then background threads will move the file to the Cloud Storage while a copy of the file remains in the cache for future reads.

The Brooklyn Edge cache has been built in hierarchical storage management (HSM) system. It has been designed around an 80/60 policy. When the local file cache reaches 80% the oldest accessed files in the system will be removed until the system reaches 60%. If a file is requested that is not in cache, the file will be transferred from the Cloud back into the cache and then returned to the user.