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Cisco is expanding into new territory with their NSS 300 series: a new family of small-scale storage servers for small businesses. Models include a 2-, 4- and 6-bay version. These products are aimed at small shops on a tight budget; the smallest unit starts at just $913.  Cisco NSS 300 series Smart Storage Continue reading Cisco teams up with QNAP to provide low-end storage hardware 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, “achieved a record-setting combination of 131,591 ops/sec throughput and minimal latency of 1.38ms ORT (overall response time).” Continue reading Avere Systems shows first benchmarks 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. In fact, the product is exactly what I earlier thought Dataram would offer; a cache that sits between your traditional NAS filers and clients accessing it. Both models offer eight 15k rpm SAS drives; the FXT 2300 uses 145GB drives, while the FXT 2500 has 450GB disks. To provide even better performance, both models have 64GB of (D)RAM for caching reads, and 1GB of NVRAM for storing data that is actively written to. Networking is handled by either two 10Gbps and two 1 Gbps Ethernet interfaces, of ten 1Gbps ports. Continue reading Avere Systems present their FXT series NAS frontends 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. Continue reading Network-Attached Storage: it’s not just for Ethernet 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 it also has more advanced features like block-level replication to a second offsite unit, and it is VMware certified for use with both NFS and iSCSI. Continue reading Iomega offers SMB NAS appliance with VMware certification 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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