Scalable File Storage

Our company stores and serves large number of documents to numerous users simultaneously but there exists an imbalance in frequent access of a document. It gets worst with increased growth of data. We need some solution with the help of which we could serve our documents more efficiently.

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Originally Posted by Rupert

Our company stores and serves large number of documents to numerous users simultaneously but there exists an imbalance in frequent access of a document. It gets worst with increased growth of data. We need some solution with the help of which we could serve our documents more efficiently.

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EMC Clariion AX4 or CX4...
IBM DS3xxx or DS4xxx...
HP EVA storage
NetApp maybe?
HDS (Hitachi)?

Also, consider implementing some kind of content management (eg. EMC Documentum or Alfresco)...

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Originally Posted by Rupert

Our company stores and serves large number of documents to numerous users simultaneously but there exists an imbalance in frequent access of a document. It gets worst with increased growth of data. We need some solution with the help of which we could serve our documents more efficiently.

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Sun Solaris with ZFS

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Originally Posted by Rupert

Our company stores and serves large number of documents to numerous users simultaneously but there exists an imbalance in frequent access of a document. It gets worst with increased growth of data. We need some solution with the help of which we could serve our documents more efficiently.

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The typical approach is memory backed by disk backed by tape library. Of course it all depends on the details and on how much money you can spend and what the space needs actually are. Also you may want to go to a multi-server system if you can partition your document pool.