FileTek announced the general availability of StorHouse/FTP, an optimized FTP server that provides high-speed, sequential retrieval of very large (multi-gigabyte) StorHouse files using any standard FTP client. FTP retrieval is in addition to native NFS and CIFS support that StorHouse Linux-based servers already provide. With NFS, CIFS, and FTP interfaces, StorHouse customers can optimize retrieval performance based on client operating system requirements, application use cases, and file size.

StorHouse/FTP provides many benefits to StorHouse customers who use the product as an enterprise active archive for their multi-gigabyte media/entertainment, life sciences/pharmaceutical, intelligence/defense, research/high-performance computing, and engineering/seismic data. These benefits include enhanced “jet-speed-like” retrieval performance; flexibility to use any standard GUI or command-line FTP client; specialized features that optimize tape retrieval, including buffered, sequential, read-ahead processing to maximize tape’s inherent data streaming capability; and near-linear performance as customers add new tape drives and run multiple concurrent retrieval streams. By retrieving data at near tape-rated performance specifications, StorHouse/FTP delivers concurrent streamed data retrieval much faster than any disk-based backup or archive solution. StorHouse users are assured the best of all worlds – direct “disk-like” access to information and superior performance while enjoying the cost benefits of low-cost storage media.

“FileTek customers across different industry segments actively archive multiple terabytes to petabytes of critical data to StorHouse systems, and much of this data consists of very large, multi-gigabyte files. Think genomic sequencing records, geophysical data, and extremely large video streams,” commented Mark Seamans, FileTek Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer. “The ability for these clients to obtain multi-session retrieval performance that can scale linearly and operate at the rated speed of their high-performance devices – both disk and tape – means that StorHouse will never be the limiting factor in allowing users and systems to access their critical data assets. StorHouse/FTP is yet another example of how FileTek keeps customer satisfaction at the forefront of development.”