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 Deploy
Adding capacity to a Gridstore is as simple as attaching a Gridstore 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.
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