OSNexus and Pogo Linux Partnering

OSNexus, Inc., developer of software-defined storage solutions, and Pogo Linux, Inc., provider of server and storage products, announced that QuantaStor SDS will be offered on the Pogo Linux Storage Sentinel Q4236 Secure NAS Appliance.

This storage solution will providesecurity for industries such as law enforcement, financial services, healthcare, and defense.

The Storage Sentinel Q4236 NAS Appliance consists of a hardware platform supporting data-at-rest encryption combined with the latest version of QuantaStor SDS – compliant with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) standard.

With a combination of both encrypted spinning disk and ultra-fast SSD storage, the Storage Sentinel provides performance for the most demanding jobs while also adhering to the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) specification for encryption. This provides data-at-rest security, even if an individual gains unauthorized access to the physical media of the storage appliance.

In addition to hardware security, the Storage Sentinel Q4236 NAS Appliance is powered by the latest version of QuantaStor SDS which provides security features compliant with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) standard. These features include activity audit logging, strict password strength and expiration requirements, system use notifications, data encryption in motion, and secure data shredding and role-based access controls (RBAC). As a complete package the Storage Sentinel SD provides a solution that is designed for secure environments.

“With QuantaStor SDS’ high-performance platform and the Pogo Linux Storage Sentinel Q4236 Secure NAS Appliance, companies and public sector organizations can now securely and cost-effectively manage large amounts of data across their global datacenters or on-premises sites,” said Steve Umbehocker, CEO, OSNexus.

“By combining our optimal hardware configuration with QuantaStor SDS, Pogo offers a complete solution that solves the traditional issues of scale-out storage while also providing the high level of security demanded by our customers. This is all backed by Pogo’s award winning support and warranty coverage,” said Erik Logan, CEO, Pogo Linux.

The Pogo Linux Storage Sentinel SD Secure NAS Appliance with QuantaStor SDS allows IT administrators to set up and manage complex open source scale-out file (ZFS), block and object storage technologies with a few mouse clicks for use cases including HPC, big data, virtualization, and backup and archive.

Key Features of the Pogo Linux Storage Sentinel
Secure NAS Appliance with QuantaStor SDS:

• Audit Logging: Appliances automatically maintain audit logs of all operations with time-stamps, user ID, task/operation, client IP, and description so that systems meet regulatory security compliance requirements set forth by CJIS.
• Encryption and Security Policy Compliance: Complies with CJIS security policy standards ranging from end-to-end encryption to password policy enforcement to audit logging.
• Advanced RBAC Security Model: Utilizes role-based-access-controls (RBAC) grouping authorization of actions/operations into roles that are separate from resource groups enabling multi-tenancy and scoping of permissions to a user’s objects, all objects in the user’s associated resource group(s), or to an entire grid of appliances.