ExaStore Wins Best Complete Storage System Award

ExaStore 2.0, Exanet’s high-performance, software-based, hardware-independent clustered network-attached storage (NAS) solution, was named “Best Complete Storage System” at the prestigious Network Storage Conference yesterday. “This award is another validation of ExaStore’s unique software-based approach to solving the storage problems caused by the exponential growth in data and performance requirements, which lead, in turn, to management complexity challenges,” said Rami Schwartz, CEO of Exanet. “We’ve developed superior software that leverages commodity hardware to create the ultimate price/ performance storage solution, and we’re pleased that such a high-caliber panel of judges has recognized ExaStore as the best complete system.” ExaStore was recognized because of its unique technology and significant value offering and customer endorsement. The panel of judges included experts from IBM; Sun Microsystems; Computer Technology Review; Mesabi Group, and Peripheral Concepts. “Although we had many high-quality contenders, we chose ExaStore because its technology truly is one of the most innovative available on the market,” said Farid Neema, President of Peripheral Concepts. “ExaStore is specially designed for high performance and efficient storage utilization,” said Clive Surfleet, Exanet Chief Strategy Officer. “Its software not only offers a robust single image file system on industry-standard hardware but it is the only grid storage solution that specifically addresses the network and storage topology issues of large configurations (scalability and high availability). We’re honored to be recognized for this technology achievement.” ExaStore provides the performance and reliability previously only available in a storage-area network (SAN) system in an affordable network-attached storage (NAS) solution. It is a software-based, distributed file system solution that uniquely and dynamically manages its underlying hardware components to achieve a robust, full solution, with no practical limits on capacity or the size and number of files. This allows an ExaStore system to seamlessly grow with the enterprise’s need for data. All information in an ExaStore system is contained in a single global file system image, which greatly simplifies information sharing and data management challenges. The file system improves performance through a number of load balancing, capacity balancing, cache, and metadata management algorithms through ExaStore’s patent-pending software. ExaStore supports all major platforms, including Apple, Linux, Microsoft, and UNIX clients, with implementation of the industry-standard file protocols: NFS, CIFS and AFP. ExaStore storage solutions are available both with fibre channel and SATA disk RAID arrays, allowing customers to build an infinitely expandable storage system, based on Exanet’s proprietary grid storage architecture.