Pixit Media Solutions: ‘The Building-Block Approach’
All of Pixit Media’s solutions are powered by IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS), a high performance, software-based enterprise file-management platform. Introduced by IBM’s Alamaden Research Centre in 1992 and released as GPFS in 1998, GPFS can leverage and aggregate the power of multiple low cost commodity storage and file servers into a single powerful global namespace with no single point of failure.
Additionally, GPFS’s integrated online data management facilities allow organisations the capability to automatically migrate petabytes of data and billions of files into virtualised pools of storage hardware. This powerful information lifecycle management feature ensures that data is always seamlessly placed in the most efficient hardware location available, without any additional user education required.
Pixit Media, with over 30 years of combined GPFS expertise on staff, extend and simplify GPFS’s scalability and data management capabilities. By modularizing its various components into an easy to understand architecture and eliminating the reliance on proprietary hardware, Pixit Media removes the complexity typically associated with the sizing, expansion and cost of traditional scale-out offerings. This ‘building-block’ approach to software-defined storage architectures guarantees that customers receive enterprise-capable, high performance storage solutions at the lowest-possible price point.