Zetera Storage NBOD™ Solutions
With storage capacity requirements growing at over 40% annually, businesses face trade-offs when expanding and consolidating their server storage capacity.
- *SCSI DAS is affordable and less complex, but can only be attached to one or two servers and becomes complex to manage at any scale.
- *iSCSI storage area networks offer better storage asset utilization, but often require increased costs, specially-trained staff and specialized hardware.
Any business that has faced this capacity decision has encountered the well-defined gap in the storage market.
Zetera’s NBOD™ Solutions Eliminate Server Storage Trade-Offs
Zetera’s NBOD family of storage solutions combines the flexibility and utilization efficiency of iSCSI SANs with the cost and simplicity of DAS to create an ideal storage solution for server storage expansion and consolidation. In contrast to enterprise solutions that are “dumbed down” in order to be priced for small businesses, NBODs (or “networked bunch of disks”) are designed specifically for small businesses, enabling them to more quickly, easily, and efficiently adapt to change – whether planned or otherwise.
The Zetera Storage NBOD™ product line is the first to offer SMBs a solution to bridge the gap between SCSI direct area storge and iSCSI storage area networks. NBOD products offer the networked benefits of iSCSI SANs, enabling one or more servers to share the storage of a single or multiple NBODs. As individual servers require more storage, more capacity is allocated from the NBOD. At the same time, NBODs preserve the simplicity of DAS, requiring only general IT staff with basic skills in networking to easily deploy, configure and manage the storage system, regardless of its size.
Zetera’s Z-SAN® Technology: Delivering on the Vision of Networked Storage
NBODs are based on Zetera’s Z-SAN technology, a platform that enables IT professionals to realize true networked storage at unprecedented price/performance levels. Z-SAN technology leverages advances in Internet Protocol (IP) to deliver the performance,
scalability and flexibility of SANs without the expense or complexity. Unlike other storage architectures, Z-SAN technology simultaneously optimizes the four fundamental factors that drive the success of a network storage system – scalability, performance, reliability and cost. Z-SAN technology offers network storage that is simple enough to be configured and managed by non-technical users and cuts costs by eliminating expensive hardware.
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