(White Paper) – InsideHPC Spotlights Security Features of Seagate ClusterStor SDA

In a piece published last week, to the InsideHPC website, industry veteran and InsideHPC publisher Kevin Normandeau wrote a piece the Seagate ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance (SDA).

Below are highlights – the full piece is available, here.

  • “This is the fourth article in a series designed to address the needs of government and business or collaborative and secure information sharing within a Multilevel Security (MLS) framework.”
  • “SDA is the HPC industry’s first scale-out secure storage system officially ICD-503 certified to consolidate multiple previously isolated systems, maintain data security, enforce security access controls, segregate data at different security levels, and provide audit trails…”
  • “ A high performance parallel file system )of SDA) provides higher performance I/O throughput, higher access request metadata operations and larger file system data storage capacity than Network File System (NFS).”
  • “The National Security Agency (NSA) originated a set of security-enhanced patches to the Linux kernel that are now fully integrated into Linux source tree. The security enhancements add Mandatory Access Controls to the standard Discretionary Access Control functions already provided by standard Linux, such as file permissions and access control lists.”
  • “If a user tries to modify or use an action without sufficient permissions, access is denied and the activity is logged.”
  • “SELinux is a proven operating system for secure environments that complies with the government standards required for Multilevel Security….The OS ensures they cannot access information they are not authorized to see.”
  • “When comprehensively integrated into the ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance, Seagate adds further enhancements to the combination of both SELinux and the Lustre parallel file system, as well as functional tuning and low level software optimization, all hosted on high performance scalable hardware building blocks with world-class storage management and support. No other system in the world combines the full set of these capabilities delivering secure scale-out storage at massive scale.”
  • “At the center of the integrated ClusterStor solution is the Lustre file system, a scalable, high performance, parallel file system running on over 60% of today’s top 100 supercomputer centers worldwide (http://www.opensfs.org/lustre/).”\
  • “The next article in this series looks at ClusterStor Solution for HPC and Big Data. If you prefer you can download the entire article series in PDF format from the insideHPC White Paper Library courtesy of Seagate.”

To learn more about Seagate SDA and the family of ClusterStor architecture, visit our website.

2016-12-01T09:26:45+00:00

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