How to Enable 99.9999% Uptime Across 100s of Petabytes — VAST Forward Ep. 4

Is it possible to have nearly 100% uptime across 100s of petabytes, or even exabytes of data? In this episode, VAST Technologies Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Howard Marks breaks what to consider when building large-scale data center infrastructure, how to protect against data loss, and just how to never go down with an all-new storage architecture that enables an ultra-resilient, affordable all-flash NAS data center. VAST's Universal Storage, powered by the revolutionary DASE architecture, redefines scale, resilience, flash economics, QoS, and ease of management to enable one consolidated flash cloud for all your data. 0:00 Intro 0:28 Data Loss vs. Data Availability 1:32 Storage Architecture Impact On Resiliency 2:57 The Key: Locally-Decodable Erasure Codes 4:36 Comparing Shared-Everything Architecture 5:46 Benefits of VAST's DASE™ at Scale 6:46 Why No Downtime Matters 7:58 Upgrading Systems With No Downtime 9:21 Advantages to Software-Only Storage 12:01 Closing Learn more about how VAST compares: https://vastdata.com/nomoretiers More VAST Forward https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLms0BUHwE7cZpXPZ-rorOkT5A36etqmS5