Performance without the Enterprise Price Tag

If you need extreme performance for large transactional systems - then Gridstore is not the product for you. There are plenty of vendors that offer this type of product if you can afford it. For small-medium sized businesses that need high performance file serving (on a limited budget) - then Gridstore is for you.

Gridstore is optimized for file serving to high numbers of concurrent clients. Gridstore uniquely utilizes parallel storage nodes, bandwidth and processing power to achieve aggregate throughput not possible with a standalone server and at a lower cost.

Maximize Throughput with Parallel Processing and I/O

Because Gridstore replaces the server with a grid of storage nodes that operate in parallel - Gridstore eliminates the traditional bottleneck at the server when demand is high. Gridstore uses the high powered clients to perform the complex storage processing and then stripes a file in parallel across the storage nodes. This approach means each storage node does very little work for each file operation and the network throughput is maximized with parallel I/O uniformly spread across the grid.

Zero Cost Performance Increments

The innovation of Gridstore harnesses the processing power of the client machines. As the number of clients that access the Gridstore increases, the overall processing power of the grid is linearly increased. This allows Gridstore to utilize both parallel processing and parallel I/O to the storage nodes to eliminate bottlenecks during peak loads and maximize throughput. Unlike Enterprise Storage where adding processing capacity to meet peak demand requires substantial investment that is typically under utilized 80% of the time, with Gridstore, processing power scales up and down on-demand at zero cost.

Harness the Power of Many

Gridstore is unique. It can be used very efficiently at a small scale to provide a reliable, high performance storage infrastructure. While the simple building block approach means a Gridstore can be increased one storage node or one client node at a time to get the exact right balance of performance for a particular organization. Gridstore eliminates the need for large up-front investments or expensive upgrades common to Enterprise Storage and allows your Gridstore to grow on-demand in small incremental costs.