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Gridstore Chosen as Leading Network Attached Storage Solution for SMBs and MSPs
April 14, 2011
Analyst firm Storage Switzerland has recognized Gridstore as a leading solution provider for scale-out network attached storage (NAS) for small and mid-sized businesses and MSP organizations. The report from Storage Switzerland, "What is Mid-Range Scale-Out Storage," highlights the benefits of Gridstore's offerings.
Gridstore provides a scale-out NAS approach for SMBs that eliminates storage silos, reduces management complexity and risk and is available for a fraction of the cost of traditional NAS offerings. The report validates the value of this storage approach for the SMB market. The Gridstore NASg 2.0 solution offers a powerful grid processing architecture that enables storage processing to be offloaded from storage nodes and distributed across client machines in a network. The storage clients have parallel access to a virtualized storage pool built from simple, low cost storage blocks.
The combined advanced processing technology and simple storage building blocks lowers the overall cost of the solution, as well as increases performance, scalability and reliability. SMBs may share files and experience excellent performance without adding new NAS devices as their capacity demands increase.
The full Storage Switzerland report is available in PDF format.
"Scale-out storage has benefits for organizations of any size, as its ability to add performance and capacity incrementally makes storage planning significantly easier," said George Crump, founder of Storage Switzerland. "The problem is that the current implementation and design of scale-out storage is most often targeted at the larger enterprise customer. But mid-range businesses would benefit, potentially more so, from an architecture that grows with them too. A new scale-out design is needed to meet the needs of mid-range customers."
"Gridstore has architected a scale-out NAS solution designed from day one to meet the needs of the SMB organization today by allowing them to start small and incrementally grow storage resources in a controlled, cost-effective way while minimizing the complexity and risk of managing islands of storage across the organization," said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. "By leveraging a building block approach to adding storage, SMBs can eliminate high storage costs while minimizing the reliability and risk of managing multiple storage silos perpetuated by traditional standalone NAS."
Edited by
Rich Steeves
