Green IT directly from the wind turbine: PoINT Archival Gateway in the Cristie GREEN-S3 Cloud
The GREEN-S3 Cloud from Cristie offers its customers a consistently sustainable cloud service that also scores highly in terms of data security. Provided by windCORES, the climate-neutral data centers are located at the base of wind turbines and are powered directly by renewable energy.
Our S3-to-Tape solution PoINT Archival Gateway fits seamlessly into the sustainability and security concept of the GREEN-S3 Cloud. It enables the integration of the energy-efficient and secure storage medium tape for a variety of use cases, which are thus available to the users of the GREEN-S3 Cloud.
PoINT Blog: Integrating IBM Storage Ceph with PoINT Archival Gateway for Policy-Based S3-to-Tape Archiving
IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise-grade software-defined storage solution that provides object storage tiering capabilities to optimize cost and performance by seamlessly moving data between storage classes.
With PoINT Archival Gateway, a tape-based storage class can be homogeneously integrated into a Ceph cluster. The joint solution enables seamless S3-compatible policy-driven archiving to tape.
Our current blog article describes the functionality of the solution and provides a hands-on deployment guide.
ORION S3: Scalable Object Storage on Tape
ORION S3 is the answer to growing data volumes and the challenges of digitization. The tape-based S3 appliance combines our S3-to-Tape solution PoINT Archival Gateway with the new BDT ORION Library.
Together with our partners BDT Media Automation and COMBACK, we will present ORION S3 at CloudFest from March 17 - 20.
Details about the solution and use cases can be found in our Joint Solution Brief.
Tape-based Object Storage “as a service”: Multitenant Glacier Storage Class with PoINT Archival Gateway and Cloutility
Our partnership with the Danish software manufacturer Auwau has resulted in a joint solution for storage service providers: The combination of PoINT Archival Gateway and Cloutility enables cloud providers to offer a cost-effective Glacier storage class with multi-tenancy.
Via the Cloutility interface, customers create users and buckets themselves as tenants and manage the corresponding authorizations.
<p>Siegen. PoINT presents the new case study about the use of its S3-to-tape solution PoINT Archival Gateway in Cristie Data's sustainable GREEN S3 Cloud service. The storage software plays a central role in the resource-saving and cyber resilient data storage in the GREEN S3 Cloud.</p>
<p>The GREEN S3 Cloud from data management specialist Cristie Data offers sustainable and secure data storage at German locations. WestfalenWIND operates the award-winning data centers under the windCORES brand at the base of its wind turbines in the Paderborn region. This means that the data centers are not only powered directly by renewable energy, but also use existing infrastructures in the sense of sector coupling.</p>
<p>The innovative concept of the cloud offering is significantly supported by the S3-to-tape solution of the Siegen-based software manufacturer PoINT. "PoINT has been our partner for many years and its S3 management software perfectly complements our GREEN S3 Cloud," says Marco Vögele, Partner Sales Manager at Cristie Data. "As the software is developed and maintained entirely in Germany, a direct and fast line to the manufacturer is guaranteed."</p>
<p>PoINT Archival Gateway is a tape-based object storage that stores large amounts of data on tape with high performance values via the standardized S3 REST API. In addition to the tape storage class, PoINT Archival Gateway can also integrate a disk storage class under the same namespace. The high flexibility of the solution is passed on by Cristie to GREEN S3 Cloud customers in the form of a wide range of use cases.</p>
<p>Offline storage on tape is an important module for cyber resilience. The integrated replication function of PoINT Archival Gateway provides additional important redundancy as well as technological and spatial separation of data copies. To implement the 3-2-1-1 backup strategy, Cristie replicates its customers' data not only to a different medium, but also to a different location – i.e. to a data center in a different wind turbine.</p>
<p>With PoINT Archival Gateway, Cristie also implements a cost-effective and secure S3 Glacier storage class for its customers: The software moves data from disk to tape based on lifecycle policies and archives it there in a legally compliant manner.</p>
<p>"Cristie has created a unique cloud offering that combines data protection with sustainability. We are very happy that our software can contribute to this innovative service," says Sebastian Klee, Head of Marketing & Sales at PoINT Software & Systems.</p>
<p><strong>About Cristie Data GmbH:</strong><br />Cristie has been providing data availability solutions since 1969. Our focus since then has made us specialists in data security, backup & recovery, long term data retention & archiving and primary storage. Our teams are recognized experts with top certifications and authorizations from our technology partners.</p>
<p><strong>About windCORES:</strong><br /><strong>windCORES - CO2 neutral data centers in wind turbines</strong><br />We turn wind turbines into CO2 neutral data centers, which is unique in the world. We literally build data centers directly into the base of wind turbines. The concept was awarded the German Data Center Prize in 2019.<br /><strong>CO2 neutrality for IT</strong><br />CO2 emissions from data traffic are enormous: it is estimated that up to four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by the operation of the Internet and computers. And the trend is rising, driven by new technologies such as autonomous driving.<br />With data centers in wind turbines, windCORES offers a CO2-neutral solution for digital processes in companies.<br />Thanks to the dual use of wind turbines with our windCORES, there is also no need to seal off additional areas for the construction of IT infrastructure.<br />With our windCORES, over 400 grams of CO2 can be saved per kWh of electricity, which translates to an annual CO2 savings of approximately 14 tons for just one rack of servers with an average power consumption of 3 kW.<br /><strong>We use what is already there:</strong><br />A wind turbine is the perfect location for a data center. It offers plenty of space, has strong grid and data connections, and provides the clean power needed to run the data center. For sustainability, we simply put the consumer inside the generator. While conventional data centers will emit 420 grams of CO2 per kWh of electricity in 2021, windCORES will emit only 10.75 grams.</p>
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