MSP Empowerment Through Technology & Education Adopts Gridstore

Gridstore, Inc. announces that Empowerment through Technology & Education, Inc. (ETTE) has adopted its 3.0 software-defined storage solution as an integral component of updating their data protection infrastructure to accommodate their virtualized environment.

ETTE, founded in 2002, is a minority-owned business providing IT technical support and consulting services to businesses throughout the Washington, DC area. As MSP cloud hosting provider with a focus on educational and non-profit verticals they were challenged with finding a scalable and economical modular storage system for their Veeam Software‘s disk-to-disk backup cloud service. After investigating competitive options, they chose six Gridstore 3.0 12TB capacity nodes for the backup-to-disk hardware component. Because of its ability to scale, the solution will accommodate the anticipated +2TB growth per quarter.

“Because it is a pay-as-you-scale solution, it has allowed us to meet and exceed our original cost and performance goals,” said Lawrence Guyot, president, ETTE. “In the future, if backups start running long, we will simply add another backup server. As our volume of data grows, because of Gridstore’s parallel performance scaling, we can easily add storage nodes to accommodate this growth without impacting performance.”

Gridstore 3.0 was designed from the ground up to accelerate applications in virtual environments. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all storage, Gridstore 3.0 leverages their patented Server-Side Virtual ControllerTechnology (SVCT ) to eliminate the I/O blender and accelerate application I/O in three ways.

1. vmOptimized storage accelerators adapt to the applications data patterns to accelerate performance for every application in the virtual environment.
2. TrueQoS is an end-to-end Storage QoS and guarantees the performance of the most important applications.
3. GridScale delivers massively parallel performance that scales without performance loss.

With solutions for both capacity and hybrid storage, Gridstore solutions fit into Windows architecture appearing like local HDDs to the OS:

• Admins manage the storage with the tools they are used to and in a manner they do
• Existing scripts continue to work
• Easy to expand the size of virtual drives