Pay-as-you-grow storage capacity - not upfront.

Enterprise storage systems often force customers to buy as much capacity as possible upfront in order to maximize their buying leverage (or risk paying excessive expansion costs later due to vendor lock in). With standalone NAS, buying capacity when you need it leads to multiple storage silos with excessive management cost and many single points of failure. Gridstore eliminates both of these issues by allowing you to add capacity to a single pool of storage using low cost storage blocks from any vendor - when you need it.

Convenient to Buy from Multiple Vendors

Gridstore is working with the OEM community to provide NASg enabled storage devices. This open approach to storage ensures our customers have the choice to select the right hardware from a vendor of their choosing. NASg devices from multiple vendors can be mixed and will work seamlessly in a Gridstore. Use the NASg enabled storage hardware that best fits your requirements.

Convenient to Deploy

Adding capacity to a Gridstore is as simple as attaching a NASg enabled storage node to your network - it will auto-detect your Gridstore and request to attach to it. This can be done while the system continues in full operation. This eliminates the time and business disruption of taking down servers to open them and add disks or the overhead of adding new network shares for new servers.

Convenient to Fix

If a storage node fails, a new node can be attached and it simply takes over from the failed node. By using low cost storage nodes, it is economical to have a few standby nodes ready to take over in the event of failure or to add capacity when required. Unlike traditional storage systems, all this is done while the Gridstore continues to operate and users notice no performance degradation.