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NASg uniquely turns low cost, low powered standalone NAS devices into a powerful shared storage grid. Unlike enterprise storage systems that require large sophisticated processing components in order to manage large capacities - NASg allows you to scale one low cost storage node at a time - with no upfront investment in large processing capability.

NASg is the only storage system that scales processing capacity at zero cost as demand increases from added clients. The real innovation of NASg is its ability to combine the power of many low cost computing devices - storage nodes, network components, PCs and servers - into a highly reliable shared storage infrastructure with a unique ability to scale at a fraction of the cost of Enterprise Storage.

Unlimited Storage Capacity

A gridstore can contain any number of storage nodes - the more nodes in the grid, the more powerful the gridstore becomes. A unique feature of NASg is that the storage nodes are very simple devices optimized only for I/O - they do not process the data. When a client writes a file, all processing is done at the client. The file is first fragmented and then stripped in parallel across the storage nodes. As the number of storage nodes increases, each node has less work to do for each operation and throughput increases.

Unlimited Storage Bandwidth

For every storage node added to increase capacity, it also adds network bandwidth. This increases the width of the data path to the gridstore. All I/O across in a gridstore uses asynchronous parallel communication. So as storage nodes are added, each node does less work and network throughput increases. No other storage system can scale in this manner.

Unlimited Storage Processing

NASg literally turns storage on its head. Instead of the traditional client to central server model where client requests eventually bottleneck at the server as the number of clients increases, NASg performs all storage processing at the client and then communicates in parallel with all storage nodes in the gridstore. This approach eliminates bottlenecks as the client population grows and increases the processing power of the gridstore with each client added at zero cost. To put that into perspective, there is more processing power in 25 modern PCs than in some of the largest Enterprise Storage systems. NASg allows you to harness this processing power for free.