Nodeum develops advanced data management tools

Nodeum, a Belgium software company dedicated to unstructured data management, has participated to the recent 45th IT Press Tour in Paris and it was a confirmation of its strong expertise.

The company develops a real line of advanced data management solutions to solve real life unstructured data challenges and pains. 

The first key point is the targeted environment as Nodeum plays in the hybrid storage, coupling various distinct technologies, with a desire to deliver a highly scalable product. The second point is related to the search of data and the third about a universal data access whatever is the storage connected.

Valéry Guilleaume, CEO and co-founder, explained us the 3 pillars of Nodeum: Data Migration, Data Archiving and Data Protection, 3 key components of Data Management, to address use cases in Healthcare, Geospatial, University/Education and Media and Entertainment.

Data Migration is essentially file migration with what we know such tiering or HSM in mind but with a modern approach. Data Archiving is pretty classic but here it means active archiving with ease of search and access and finally Data Protection with advanced file system protection with granular file-level restore and search.

At the heart of these solutions, Nodeum team has developed a powerful data mover that delivers high performance throughput, strong integrity controls and guarantees and advanced monitoring.

In details, any NFS, SMB or S3 storage is supported as source, S3 being exposed from a private object storage cluster or a public cloud storage instance and considered as well as a target, plus pure secondary storage entities such tape libraries with any SCSI or ACSLS tape libraries and of course LTFS as an open format.

Nodeum goal is to become the central data movements engine across any type of storage for file data promoting open formats and commodity hardware.

Even if the company is a bit confidential, the team has successfully signed some very significant deals confirming that Nodeum develops some pretty unique software.

In terms of partnerships, Valéry Guilleaume insisted on 2 key collaborations: Quantum and DataCore.  For Quantum they developed their universal S3 to tape used by hyerscalers and for DataCore, Swarm represents a key product in the data chain for Nodeum.

And we got confirmation from Nodeum CEO that the company prepares something, more details soon.