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Cloud Storage Solutions For High Performance Computing
Cloud Storage encompasses several capabilities that run on a server provider’s hardware. Each of these capabilities meets a different need, but all provide the flexibility to pay only for what you use. The provider is responsible for maintaining the underlying hardware and ensuring data remains available, resilient, and protected. The most common cloud storage types are object, file, and block.
How Cloud Storage Is Helping Democratize HPC Infrastructure
Cloud Computing has been part of the HPC landscape for over a decade, but early iterations were hampered by a lack of maturity in available solutions. Recently, advancements in security, software license models, and services have allowed the segment to take off, and today, about half of HPC users use cloud computing as an overall part of their extended infrastructure. Cloud computing has seen double-digit growth in five of the past six years in HPC, and with a 22.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), the cloud is the fastest-growing segment of the HPC market, projected to exceed $3.8 billion as a segment by 2024.
In partnership with Oracle, our Cloud Infrastructure Engineers have launched a significant initiative to serve high-performance workloads, including HPC and machine learning, in a public cloud setting, and it has already landed potential customer wins. A key OCI feature is the availability of bare-metal instances: single-tenant deployments without hypervisors or VMs. These provide dedicated computing that frees HPC users from overhead, paving the way to predictable performance and scalability.
Why Businesses Need Cloud Storage
On the one hand, High-Performance Computing (HPC) is becoming increasingly common as more companies use Artificial Intelligence (AI), eCommerce Chatbots, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), engineering simulations, and other innovative modeling applications. On the other hand, advancements in recent years have made high-performance computing in the cloud possible, easily accessible, and affordable.
Adaptability
Cloud Storage eliminates layers of overhead costs. Direct costs are no longer necessary—from hardware to the excess storage needed to scale over the next few years. Any time required to prepare hardware, handle data management, or troubleshoot issues is saved, as responsibility for these tasks moves from your IT staff to the provider. This means that IT will rarely be interrupted to address sudden problems and focus on bigger-picture tasks and further innovation.
Scalability
Because cloud storage is handled using a pay-as-you-go model, the platform is built to accommodate rapid scaling when needed. In contrast, when companies rely on local hardware, additional storage and hardware must be purchased, integrated, and configured by their IT teams in order to scale. Cloud file storage providers have designed their infrastructure to handle client needs of all shapes and sizes, meaning that they can adapt quickly if a client has rapidly changing needs.
Accessibility
The democratization of HPC is bringing greater computing capacity to an ever-broadening range of applications and workloads. Supercomputing levels of performance have become more widely accessible, in short-term or long-term consumption chunks, through advancements in cloud computing. As a result of increased accessibility, high-performance workloads have expanded dramatically to include analytics and machine learning workloads.
Outsource Our Cloud Storage Solutions
Big Data Analytics
Access an unlimited storage pool to manage structured and unstructured data growth. Build and run analytic workloads and use a low-cost shared storage system to store persistent data and generate business insights.
Personalized Migrations
With the help of our cloud storage solutions, you can migrate existing custom platforms or on-premises business applications that require storage, such as Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, to the cloud.
Database Security
Our cloud storage solutions can help you to conveniently host an additional copy of relevant data and file systems in the cloud for backup and disaster recovery purposes.
