Infortrend Boosts Storage Efficiency for Large Files

Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced an enhancement to its EonStor GS ⁽¹⁾ unified storage with the release of a faster and smarter auto-tiering feature, optimizing storage efficiency for large workloads.

EonStor GS is a unified storage solution purpose-built for modern enterprises. It is for file sharing, M&E, healthcare, and manufacturing, where the rapid growth of high-resolution videos, images, and large files demands a careful balancing of capacity, performance, and cost. With HDDs far more affordable than SSDs, about one-fifth the cost, many organizations adopt hybrid storage with the auto-tiering feature. Auto-tiering automatically places frequently accessed files on SSDs and less-used data on HDDs. The latest upgrade offers 30% faster hot data migration and intelligent scheduling, moving data during user-defined off-hours to reduce storage I/O impact.

The upgraded auto-tiering accelerates applications while simplifying data management for enterprises with growing data volumes. Benchmark results ⁽²⁾ confirm that it delivers a significant performance boost over a single HDD-tier setup:

• In enterprise file sharing, active project files demonstrate 350% faster read performance.
• In M&E, rendering performance increases by up to 600%.
• In healthcare, diagnostic images are retrieved up to 400% faster during active use.
• In manufacturing, inspection videos and images are accessed and analyzed during the quality control phase.

“With the new auto-tiering, enterprises gain faster access to important, ‘hot’ data and better efficiency for large, predictable workloads–all while keeping long-term storage affordable,” said Frank Lee, senior director, product planning, Infortrend Technology.

⁽¹⁾ EonStor GS 3000U/ 3000UT/ 4000U/ 5000U U.2 NVMe SSD and GS 3000 G3/ 4000 G3/ 5000 SAS HDD models.
⁽²⁾ Tested on EonStor GS 3040 G3: 28 HDDs + 12 SSDs (auto-tiering) vs. 40 HDDs.