Exanet Advocating Grid Technology as Key to Future of Storage

Exanet, a leading data storage access solution provider, is leading the way in creating a new way of thinking about deploying storage with the industry's first Completely Scalable Grid Storage Access System. Exanet's ExaStore Grid Storage 2.0 software-based solution is based on grid computing concepts whose importance is key to the next generation of reliable storage technologies. "Exanet's technology demonstrates the growing commercial use of grid storage," says Yankee Group's senior enterprise computing and networking storage analyst Jamie Gruener. "Its grid-based technology allows companies to move towards more scalable and reliable storage systems at an affordable price." Exanet's approach to storage is based on its Grid Storage architecture, ExaMesh(TM). ExaMesh clusters all storage system resources: RAID arrays, server/controllers, and cache memory, into one unified storage resource, significantly increasing the efficiency, reliability, and rate of return for storage. ExaStore, a Network Attached Storage (NAS) product based on ExaMesh technology, eliminates islands of storage by consolidating storage resources into a virtual resource with a single name space operating seamlessly in a heterogeneous NFS, CIFS and AFP protocols environment thereby facilitating data sharing among applications. ExaStore efficiently manages the consolidated storage environment with dynamic capacity, performance load balancing, and distributed cooperative caching to increase efficiency and circumvent bottlenecks. Exanet is targeting the Digital Media and Pre-media industry, Media Streaming, Oil & Gas, Digital Video Animation, Medical Imaging, and other standard enterprise applications all known for their performance, high-volume and high-availability requirements. Exanet has already partnered with Kodak Polychrome Graphics, the leading worldwide graphic arts solution provider, to provide the Exanet storage access solutions to the digital media and pre-media industry; a field known for its high-demand, high-volume, high-availability requirements, all in time-critical environments. The Exanet solution is applicable in all other NAS environments such as: Media Streaming, Oil& Gas, Digital Video Animation, Medical Imaging, and other standard enterprise applications.