GRID Computing

LOWER HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND STAFFING COSTS BY SEAMLESSLY DISTRIBUTING WORK BETWEEN MULTIPLE COMMODITY SERVERS

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Globally Redundant, Integrated, and Distributed (GRID) computing from ZL Technologies is the most scalable architecture for information management through which Unified Archive® fully utilizes cloud and virtualization infrastructures. Leveraging clusters of servers, the ZL computing GRID enables commodity servers to work together as a low cost super computer. The benefit of the GRID is that it can seamlessly manage work and redundancy across an arbitrary number of servers, expanding or contracting as business tasks necessitate. Self-healing allows the sytem to remain fully functional because even if one or more servers fail, all remaining servers will continue to process, taking over any dropped tasks thereby providing comprehensive failover and high availability.

Using ZL’s GRID, organizations can efficiently manage petabytes of data for eDiscovery, compliance and records management, scaling from 100s to 100,000s of mailboxes, while managing billions of emails and files in real world deployments. The GRID is well suited for both large information management deployments and medium-sized environments with high peak loads. GRID enabled deployments also provide fundamental application-level scaling necessary to take advantage of today’s cloud and virtualized infrastructures.

ZL’S GRID PROVIDES

  • Global coordination across multiple geographic locations, whether locally or in the cloud
  • Redundant, “all-active,” self-healing architecture to fully utilize hardware and software investment
  • Integrated scaling and management from ingestion to search to review to export across multiple servers using GRID protocols and multi-server administration consoles
  • Distributed workloads to seamlessly utilize servers to efficiently and cost effectively manage work through the information management process

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF ZL’s GRID

  • End-to-end scaling from ingestion to search to export
  • Efficient and seamless use of 100s of servers
  • Self-healing to virtually eliminate management costs
  • Clustering to ensure service levels across differing functions
  • Easy scaling to handle peak loads
  • Scalable integration for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Domino, etc.
  • Effectively manage information in the cloud and on virtualized infrastructures

COMPONENTS OF ZL’s GRID

ZL GRID Application Platform

 The ZL Unified Archive® information governance platform provides baseline GRID communications and coordination capability. Servers are fully hot pluggable allowing servers to be seamlessly added and removed with no downtime.

ZL GRID Applications

 GRID-enabled eDiscovery, compliance, records management, archiving, and information security applications that are designed to leverage the GRID platform for optimal performance

ZL GRID Storage Manager

 A distributed file system that seamlessly manages local and cloud-based storage with transparent encryption, compression, and hierarchical storage management. Supports NAS/SAN, WORM, and cloud-based storage.