Application Scenarios

SFS Capacity-Oriented and SFS 3.0 Capacity-Oriented

Expandable to petabytes, SFS Capacity-Oriented provides fully hosted shared file storage. It features high availability and durability, and seamlessly handles data-intensive and bandwidth-intensive applications. It is suitable for multiple scenarios, including high-performance computing (HPC), media processing, file sharing, as well as content management and web services.

HPC
In industries that require HPC, such as simulation experiments, biopharmacy, gene sequencing, image processing, and weather forecast, SFS provides superb compute and storage capabilities, as well as high bandwidth and low latency.

Media processing
Services of TV stations and new media are more likely to be deployed on cloud platforms than before. Such services include streaming media, archiving, editing, transcoding, content distribution, and video on demand (VoD). In such scenarios, a large number of workstations are involved in the whole program production process. Different operating systems may be used by different workstations, requiring file systems to share materials. In addition, HD/4K videos have become a major trend in the broadcasting and TV industry. Taking video editing as an example, to improve audiences' audiovisual experience, HD editing is being transformed to 30- to 40-layer editing. A single editing client may require a file system with a bandwidth up to hundreds of MB per second. Usually, producing a single TV program needs several editing clients to process a lot of video materials concurrently. To meet such requirement, SFS provides customers with stable, bandwidth-intensive, and latency-sensitive performance.
Content management and web service
SFS can be used in various content management systems to store and provide information for websites, home directories, online releases, and archiving.
Big data and analytic applications
SFS delivers an aggregate bandwidth of up to 10 Gbit/s, capable of handling ultra-large data files such as satellite images. In addition, SFS has robust reliability to prevent service interruptions due to system failures.

SFS Turbo

Expandable to 320 TB, SFS Turbo provides a fully hosted shared file storage. It features high availability and durability to support massive small files and applications requiring low latency and high IOPS. SFS Turbo is perfect to scenarios such as high-performance websites, log storage, compression and decompression, DevOps, enterprise offices, and container applications.

High-performance websites
For I/O-intensive website services, SFS Turbo can provide shared website source code directories for multiple web servers, enabling low-latency and high-IOPS concurrent share access.

Log storage
SFS Turbo can provide multiple service nodes for shared log output directories, facilitating log collection and management of distributed applications.