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NYSE Dives Into Managed Storage: Page 2 of 4

The 15-Tbyte repository currently consists of six direct-attached Dell servers with direct attached SAS storage. 1010 Vision, a software tool developed by 1010data, runs across repository to analyze multiple data streams.

"That creates a grid on which queries can be parallelized and run very efficiently on that commodity hardware," explains David Frankel, 1010data’s vice president of business development. "The beauty of using a commodity hardware architecture, is that we can just add hardware as required."

Direct attached storage also offers a greater degree of reliability, according to Frankel.

"The issue with centralized storage such as SANs is that it has management benefits, but it’s not well suited to environments where you need dedicated, guaranteed performance to individual servers," he says. "Each server has its own dedicated bandwidth to the storage system that it can rely on."

NYSE’s Schaedel told Byte and Switch that the next big project for the data repository will be to integrate data from Euronext, a "certain portion" of which has already been added to the system for internal use.