Hammerspace Technology White Paper: An Overview of the Key Components and Performance Metrics of Hammerspace Software

Executive Summary

This White Paper is designed as a technical overview of Hammerspace software, to provide you with a summary of the key components of the system and its primary capabilities. The flexible scale-out architecture of the system is an essential attribute that enables Hammerspace to deliver high-performance user/application access and data orchestration across heterogeneous storage silos, but also across distributed environments via a high-performance Parallel Global File System, that can include one or more on-premises data centers, clouds, and cloud regions. As such, this paper also includes a section on performance testing where we illustrate the linear scalability of the system, showing that Hammerspace is constrained only by the performance capabilities of the underlying infrastructure. These results show how Hammerspace can scale to accommodate virtually any workflow across multi-vendor, multi-cloud, and otherwise incompatible storage environments. In this way, as the performance of the backing storage or network is increased, the throughput and IOPS of Hammerspace for data orchestration and file access can scale up and out linearly as well, virtually without limitation. This flexibility to dynamically to scale up and out is important to enable high performance use cases, and when needed to bridge multiple storage systems in parallel to achieve even extreme levels of I/O, IOPS, and support for large, distributed user communities.