SSD released a new product in their FXT range of NAS accelerators: the FXT2700. The two older models, FXT2300 and FXT2500, relied on a combination of RAM and 15k rpm SAS disks for caching data that is used often; the FXT2700 combines RAM and SSD for even faster access.
Avere Systems has published some benchmark results for their FXT series of NAS acceleration products. At first glance, these look pretty good; the figures are based on the SPECsfs2008 benchmark. They achieved just over 20.000 IOs per second per node, with near-linear scaling of these results up to a 6-node cluster. The latter, according to [...]
Avere Systems, a relatively new storage startup that announced they received their first round of funding only a month ago, has announced the availability of their first two products: the FXT 2300 and FXT 2500. I’ve had a quick look at the whitepaper they published about their architecture, and it looks like a good strategy.
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When I hear the term NAS, the image that pops into my mind is a device with a UTP connection. In fact, up until today I’d never seen a NAS that didn’t use an Ethernet connection, either wired or wireless. But there are two technologies competing with Ethernet networks for home networking: HomePlug and MoCA. [...]
EMC daughter Iomega has just released a new NAS appliance that has support for both NAS and SAN technologies; it allows a multitude of connection options including iSCSI, SMB, NFS and AFP.
Iomega StorCenter IX4-200d
It offers the traditional “SMB/Home office” features such as a printserver, mediaserver, Time Machine backups etc; but in addition to that [...]
LSI has just announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire ONStor Inc; the deal is worth $25 million in cash. ONStor is mostly known for their Pantera line of SAN gateways and IP storage systems. Their other major product are the clustered NAS gateways, providing higly available frontends for large storage systems.
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