IBM Unveils Clustered NAS Storage

"IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled its entry in the growing market for clustered network-attached storage (NAS) systems.

"IBM said its new Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) offering can scale both capacity and performance while providing parallel access to data and a global name space that can manage billions of files and up to 14.4 petabytes of capacity.

"The new offering is a hardware-based expansion of Big Blue's Scale Out File Services and is based on IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS).

"The Samba-based systems include management nodes, switches, interface nodes, data storage nodes, RAID controllers and expansion units, and offer snapshot capabilities, tiered storage and HSM through Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).

"It includes Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gigabit Ethernet and 20Gbps InfiniBand connections, and the storage system can combine up to 30 interface nodes and 30 240-drive storage pods to reach 7.2PB with 1TB drives and 14.4PB with 2TB drives, which will be coming in April, a month after general availability."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Gluster Does Clustered Storage for Less with Open Source(Dec 15, 2009)
• Notes from the LF End User Summit(Dec 08, 2009)
• Sun Gives Open Storage a High-Performance Twist(Apr 16, 2009)
• Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center(Mar 22, 2009)
• Open Source Hadoop Cloud Gets Commercial(Mar 18, 2009)
• Linux Still Tops in Supercomputers(Nov 26, 2008)
• CERN Fires Up Massive Grid(Oct 07, 2008)
• The World's Biggest Science Experiment Runs Linux(Sep 10, 2008)