Storiant Link Removes Barriers to Object Storage

Storiant, Inc. announced Storiant Link, a NAS interface that uses common NFS and CIFS protocols.

With Storiant Link, organizations that have implemented object storage can still realize its advantages – including low TCO ($.01/GB/month), exabyte scalability, SEC 17a-4(f) compliance and suitability for unstructured data.

For many organizations, the promise of object storage has been out of reach because mission-critical software applications were not designed for it, requiring custom integration that is costly and time consuming. Storiant Link eliminates this barrier.

“Our customers often have hundreds of software applications and millions of dollars of investments in data center technologies. With this software, we’re providing a bridge to a new generation of storage solutions while also keeping our customers from having to discard that significant investment,” said Jeff Flowers, CEO and co-founder, Storiant. “With Storiant Link, these companies can immediately supplement existing solutions with on-premises cloud storage that is one-third the cost of Amazon S3.“

Storiant Link connects enterprises with features of long-term storage software:

• Object storage software for private clouds – for unstructured data

• Lowest TCO ($.01/GB/month)

• Exabyte scalability

• Eighteen nines of reliability with two copies

• SEC 17a-4(f) compliant

• Choice of application interfaces

• NFS/CIFS (via Storiant Link)

• REST interfaces – Swift, S3

• Client library – Java/Python/.NET

Flowers continues, “For companies with exponential data growth – particularly storage service providers and those in financial services – the scalability, compliance and cost savings made possible by object storage can’t wait. Storiant Link makes it possible.”