Taneja Group Reports on Gridstore

Gridstore Inc., in enterprise-class Network Attached Storage grid (NASg) solutions, announced that the analyst firm, Taneja Group, has recognized Gridstore as a leading solution for scale-out NAS for SMB and MSP organizations.

The recently published Taneja Group report, entitled Gridstore NASg: Network Attached Storage Grid details how Gridstore NASg uses a grid architecture to build a cost-effective file-based storage solution, creating storage pools to centralize sharing and management of massive amounts of NAS-stored files. The result is a cost-effective, high-performance solution that is both scalable and reliable.

“Gridstore is a significant entrant in the scale-out NAS market category,” said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst, Taneja Group in the report. “With Gridstore entering the picture, we see a newly innovative approach to consolidating storage while optimizing efficiency for SMB and mid-tier customers and increasing profitability for their MSPs. Gridstore’s competitive impact on the SMB and mid-tier NAS market may well be a dramatic one.”

The Gridstore NASg platform combines the simplicity, convenience and affordability of NAS with the scalability, performance and reliability of enterprise-class storage. The powerful on-premise NAS storage grid eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while providing a next-generation storage offering at 1/2 the cost of standalone NAS solutions.

According to Taneja Group research, Gridstore NASg offers economical and highly scalable scale-out NAS systems for the SMB.

As a result, it delivers the following benefits:

• Scalable Capacity – NASg creates a single storage pool to avoid creating disparate pools for storage using multiple NAS devices. Simply attaching a NASg storage node to the network expands capacity.
• Scalable Performance – NASg harnesses the aggregate processing power of client nodes to delivering linear scaling by distributing storage processing and eliminating processing bottlenecks.
• Scalable Throughput – Every NASg storage node adds 1Gb/s of parallel throughput. As the storage pool grows, the bandwidth to the pool automatically grows with it to eliminate network bottlenecks.
• Fault Tolerant – NASg features scalable redundancy and fault tolerance that goes beyond RAID 5/6. NASg can be configured to allow many failures of entire storage nodes and eliminates the single points of failure from disks, controller or management console.
• Cost-Effective OPEX and CAPEX – NASg significantly lowers IT management overhead thus reducing OPEX budgets. It also leverages commodity hardware to deliver cost-effective storage that reduces ongoing capital costs.

“Gridstore NASg was designed to bring the value of enterprise-class scale-out NAS to the SMB and MSP customer,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO and co-founder, Gridstore. “No organization, regardless of size, should be constrained by their exponential growth of data. NASg solves the challenges of cost, performance and scalability for the small and mid-sized organization while increasing availability and reliability. Now every organization can easily implement limitless storage capacity with unlimited network bandwidth and processing capacity for even the most demanding storage applications.”