Eliminate the Cost, Complexity and Risk of Storage Sprawl

The Problem - Standalone NAS Storage Results in Storage Sprawl

The benefits of NAS Appliances have lead to the rapid adoption of NAS over the past number of years. Small NAS appliances are convenient to buy, simple to deploy and affordable.

At the same time, storage capacity demand has exploded and continues to grow. Most small-medium sized businesses are not in the position to invest in enterprise storage systems and have deployed NAS to quickly and affordably meet capacity growth.

While economical to start with, the fixed capacity constraints of NAS results in one appliance being deployed after another and storage being stranded in separate storage silos - this is commonly referred to as NAS Sprawl.

Storage Sprawl Leads To:

• High Cost - due to increased administration effort to manage multiple storage silos
• Complex Processes - Admin tasks, backed up, archive, etc. increase in complexity and often fail.
• High Risk - every storage silo is a single point of failure.

The Solution

NASg is the only storage platform that allows you to reuse your existing storage servers. Because NASg is a software platform, it can be deployed onto any computer with storage. This means the end of expensive "fork-lift upgrades" and exceptional ROI by maximizing the value of your existing infrastructure.

Typically with storage sprawl - older servers site idle with data that is rarely accessed while the newest server holds current data and is over worked from the moment it is installed.

When NASg combines existing servers into a pool, the data is striped across all nodes in the grid. This provides a load balance across servers (storage nodes) and network to provide higher levels of performance.

The Benefits of NASg Storage Consolidation

• Eliminate Waste - Get full utilization of existing resources and maximize ROI from current infrastructure.
• Eliminate Cost - Avoid costly fork lift upgrades. Eliminate the cost overhead of managing storage silos.
• Simple - Manage all storage as a single pool of storage through a single console.
• Eliminate Risk - Remove all single points of failure and gain the reliability of a grid.