Over the past 12 months, Enrapture has been working in partnership with Galaxy Computers to design, develop and bring to market a cloud-based file syncing service with a great USP. The service is 100% based in Guernsey.
We soft launched the service a few months ago and have been making constant tweaks and feature additions since.
The system hardware elements have been put together in a very scalable and fault-tolerant way. We had a number of scenarios in mind that we wanted to be able to resolve quickly when designing the infrastructure. the considerations were;
- Rapid increase in user numbers but low storage volumes
- Rapid increase in storage volume but low number of users
- Rapid increase in user numbers and storage volume
The result was a modularised system that allows us to tackle each of the areas independently. We broke the system into individual elements and each needed to fit its purpose as effectively as possible whilst always meeting the initial brief; be very scalable and fault tolerant. To this end, we have developed the DataCore
By far the most important element of our system is the DataCore. Every other idea and service we have implemented, or are yet to implement, connects to the storage array system we’ve developed. As this is the key element of the system, a lot of effort has been put in to ensure its robustness and scalability.
- Data is copied across a fault-tolerant RAID array of disks in a fast server with redundant systems.
- The entire node is live replicated to a duplicate system.
- Should any disk fail, no system interruptions occur.
- Should an entire server and array fail, no system interruptions occur.
- If we run out of disk space, we can seamlessly add additional disks.
With the available processing and storage on tap, we’ve been able to expand the product offering from the initial dataisland.co service to encompass a whole range of other services. Essentially the systems can be utilised for website hosting, business data sync, remote replication services and even co-location for your own servers.
The slides used in a recent presentation about the company have been embedded below. Without context, they probably won’t mean much at this stage unless you were at the actual presentation. Perhaps we’ll create a more descriptive version in the future.
