Starboard Releases V3.2 of OS

Starboard
Storage Systems Inc. announced version 3.2 of the Starboard
OS along with Starboard AC2000,
AC4000 and AC4500 hybrid storage systems.

Built to address the storage
consolidation challenges of midsize enterprises, the AC Series
systems includes CacheControl, which delivers up to eight times
better SSD read cache efficiency than traditional storage using flash
as a cache. The software includes plug-and-play SSD performance
scaling, multiple write cache accelerators, inline cache compression,
dynamic storage pooling and a suite of enterprise features.

The AC4500 can have up to four
write caches, 12.8TB of effective read cache (with 2:1
compression) and scale up to more than a half a petabyte of storage. It
eliminates the management complexity of RAID groups, and customers
can manage FC, iSCSI, CIFS, and NFS workloads with one storage
platform.

The AC2000 delivers storage
consolidation and solid-state performance for budget-conscious
environments, providing scalability up to 171TB. Starting under
$30,000, the AC2000 is for boosting the performance of
Microsoft applications, virtualization and file sharing or as a
remote or data protection site.

The AC4000 is scalable up to 576TB
and is a choice for midsize enterprises looking to consolidate
their storage. The AC4500, with double the memory and cache expansion
capability of the AC4000, is for high-performance consolidation
of enterprise applications.

"Starboard makes it simple to
upgrade performance and capacity efficiently and inexpensively, so
that customer can confidently consolidate storage workloads,"
said Lee Johns, VP of product management for Starboard. "Today, Starboard’s installed storage systems manage
more than three PBs of NAS and SAN, and use up to 90% less drives
than traditional storage solutions. When it comes to hybrid storage,
cache efficiency drives the value, and by virtualizing independent
read and write cache across the maximum possible workloads, these new
platforms deliver on the promise of hybrid storage with plug-and-play
simplicity. Our customers benefit from automatic performance
acceleration to match their most unpredictable business demands."

"We evaluated both traditional
and hybrid storage platforms, and, aside from the price-performance
advantages, we chose Starboard for its enterprise features that
enabled us to replace our old NetApp systems," said David
Abbott, manager, IT infrastructure engineering at TripPak
SERVICES & ACS Advertising, a Xerox company. "We can now
consolidate both file and block applications into a single,
flash-enabled and easy-to-manage system that allows us to expand
performance and affordable capacity as needed."