Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Partner Value Propositions - http://bit.ly/syZR4E
Author:
Erich Flynn, CEO,
TreeHouse Interactive
Partner Value Propositions: The Key to Keeping Partners
Every partner program is different with each market having different things channel partners value. Channel managers have the job of finding out what partners value and what they don’t. What doesn't change is unless you have a value proposition, partners will not seek you out or remain partners for very long. The following are some of the most common value propositions to consider:
• Increased Sales
• Training
• Partner Marketing
• Quality Support
As your market gets more competitive, the better your partner program must be. Partners are free agents. If another company has a world-class partner program with a Web-based portal, training programs, fund management and marketing assistance and you don’t, they will move on given competitive products are functionally similar.
For the full article, visit http://bit.ly/syZR4E
For more about partner relationship management (PRM) visit http://bit.ly/tVrNlj.
Tweet This: @treehousei Discusses Partner Value Propositions - the Key to Keeping Partners - http://bit.ly/syZR4E
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For parties interested in partner relationship management, partner portal, PRM
Erich Flynn, CEO,
TreeHouse Interactive
Partner Value Propositions: The Key to Keeping Partners
Every partner program is different with each market having different things channel partners value. Channel managers have the job of finding out what partners value and what they don’t. What doesn't change is unless you have a value proposition, partners will not seek you out or remain partners for very long. The following are some of the most common value propositions to consider:
• Increased Sales
• Training
• Partner Marketing
• Quality Support
As your market gets more competitive, the better your partner program must be. Partners are free agents. If another company has a world-class partner program with a Web-based portal, training programs, fund management and marketing assistance and you don’t, they will move on given competitive products are functionally similar.
For the full article, visit http://bit.ly/syZR4E
For more about partner relationship management (PRM) visit http://bit.ly/tVrNlj.
Tweet This: @treehousei Discusses Partner Value Propositions - the Key to Keeping Partners - http://bit.ly/syZR4E
Follow TreeHouse Interactive on Twitter at: http://ping.fm/Cnblc
For parties interested in partner relationship management, partner portal, PRM
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Now that your positioning is done, what do you do? - http://bit.ly/t0pvUH
Author: Erich Flynn, CEO, TreeHouse Interactive
Now that your positioning is done, what do you do?
You have spent weeks researching your markets, building competitive taxonomies and calling together disparate company stakeholders to get your positioning statement complete. Now what? This is a really good question.
Just to refresh, the objective of positioning is to find a perception you want to create in your target customer’s mind—one that addresses customer issues and enables you to focus on the highly desired and highly competitive features of your product relative to your competitors products in your target market (see How to Create Positioning that Works - A 5-Part Methodology). Once you find the perception you want to create, you need to take steps to make it happen.
It is important to know what a positioning statement is, and what it isn’t. It is not a tagline, advertising slogan, marketing copy for websites and datasheets, or company mission statement. A positioning statement is a perception you want to create in your target customer's mind. It sets the competitive agenda, focuses on your solution's most compelling attributes and much more, literally touching every aspect of your company.
If your positioning is truly competitive, your sales teams should be almost unbeatable when properly trained and provided with the sales tools needed to win business. The positioning statement won’t likely be the message, but it will greatly influence the messages, strategies and tactics to create the desired perception in the target customer’s mind.
For the full article, go to http://bit.ly/t0pvUH.
For more information about marketing and marketing automation, visit
http://bit.ly/tCFxeI or http://bit.ly/nBxhxF.
Tweet This: @treehousei Now that your positioning is done, what do you do? - http://bit.ly/t0pvUH
For parties interested in Treehouse Interactive, marketing automation, demand generation, lead generation, marketo, eloqua
Now that your positioning is done, what do you do?
You have spent weeks researching your markets, building competitive taxonomies and calling together disparate company stakeholders to get your positioning statement complete. Now what? This is a really good question.
Just to refresh, the objective of positioning is to find a perception you want to create in your target customer’s mind—one that addresses customer issues and enables you to focus on the highly desired and highly competitive features of your product relative to your competitors products in your target market (see How to Create Positioning that Works - A 5-Part Methodology). Once you find the perception you want to create, you need to take steps to make it happen.
It is important to know what a positioning statement is, and what it isn’t. It is not a tagline, advertising slogan, marketing copy for websites and datasheets, or company mission statement. A positioning statement is a perception you want to create in your target customer's mind. It sets the competitive agenda, focuses on your solution's most compelling attributes and much more, literally touching every aspect of your company.
If your positioning is truly competitive, your sales teams should be almost unbeatable when properly trained and provided with the sales tools needed to win business. The positioning statement won’t likely be the message, but it will greatly influence the messages, strategies and tactics to create the desired perception in the target customer’s mind.
For the full article, go to http://bit.ly/t0pvUH.
For more information about marketing and marketing automation, visit
http://bit.ly/tCFxeI or http://bit.ly/nBxhxF.
Tweet This: @treehousei Now that your positioning is done, what do you do? - http://bit.ly/t0pvUH
For parties interested in Treehouse Interactive, marketing automation, demand generation, lead generation, marketo, eloqua
@DCIG endorses @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution as simple, practical & affordable for virtualized environments http://bit.ly/tsRril
DCIG Report Validates Gridstore's Scale-Out NAS Solution as Simple, Practical and Affordable Choice for Virtualized Environments
Gridstore Provides Next-Generation Virtualized Storage Grid Architecture Differentiating Itself from Traditional Controller-Based or Clustered Approaches
Mountain View, CA – November 29, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that analyst firm DCIG has recognized Gridstore as a leading solution for scale-out NAS for SMBs. The DCIG report, titled “A Practical Scale-out Storage Solution for Today Minus Scale-out’s Costs and Complexity,” emphasizes the benefits of Gridstore’s scale-out NAS approach for the organizations that need the flexibility that a scale-out architecture provides while reducing management complexity and risk at a fraction of the cost of traditional controller and clustered NAS offerings.
According to the DCIG report, server virtualization is creating a new set of demands for ease and simplicity in managing and scaling storage capacity and performance that goes well beyond the bounds of what controller-based and clustered storage systems can provide. These traditional scale-out storage systems are not optimized to cost-effectively deliver the storage capacity and performance that virtualized environments require.
Gridstore has moved beyond the physical controller nodes and clustering architectures to provide a virtual grid storage solution. In Gridstore’s configuration each storage node has its own virtual controller that resides on the attached client. The plug and play aspect of the Gridstore solution addresses key concerns that small and mid-sized organizations possess as it ensures that its storage nodes are easy to manage.
“The combination of techniques performed by the Gridstore vController can result in a 3-10x increase in IOPS performance over traditional scale-out cluster approaches,” said Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of DCIG. “But what is possibly most interesting about the Gridstore solution is that it does more than just enable small and midsized companies to cost-effectively implement a scale-out storage solution for their archiving and file serving needs. It positions them to confidently use a scale-out storage solution in their emerging virtualized environments where performance requirements are much more demanding and unpredictable.”
Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The virtualized storage pool is built from simple, low cost storage blocks of various capacities and eliminates the need for a clustered infrastructure. Gridstore provides incremental capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes to grow capacity to any size they need. This eliminates upfront capacity buying and the complexity and risk of storage silos as the capacity grows. The combination of advanced processing technology and simple building blocks of storage dramatically lowers the overall cost and increases its performance, scalability and reliability at 1/2 the cost of standalone NAS solutions.
“Our next-generation grid architecture was designed from day one to meet the demands of both data intensive applications and virtual environments while increasing performance, scalability and reliability,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “Our scale-out NAS is the most advanced, cost-effective storage system that gives organizations a building block approach to add capacity on the fly–while eliminating the need to overprovision costly resources.”
To view the complete DCIG report visit: http://ping.fm/vde1q
Tweet this: @DCIG endorses @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution as simple, practical & affordable for virtualized environments http://bit.ly/tsRril
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/KLweN
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/GVOGQ
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Mountain View, CA – November 29, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that analyst firm DCIG has recognized Gridstore as a leading solution for scale-out NAS for SMBs. The DCIG report, titled “A Practical Scale-out Storage Solution for Today Minus Scale-out’s Costs and Complexity,” emphasizes the benefits of Gridstore’s scale-out NAS approach for the organizations that need the flexibility that a scale-out architecture provides while reducing management complexity and risk at a fraction of the cost of traditional controller and clustered NAS offerings.
According to the DCIG report, server virtualization is creating a new set of demands for ease and simplicity in managing and scaling storage capacity and performance that goes well beyond the bounds of what controller-based and clustered storage systems can provide. These traditional scale-out storage systems are not optimized to cost-effectively deliver the storage capacity and performance that virtualized environments require.
Gridstore has moved beyond the physical controller nodes and clustering architectures to provide a virtual grid storage solution. In Gridstore’s configuration each storage node has its own virtual controller that resides on the attached client. The plug and play aspect of the Gridstore solution addresses key concerns that small and mid-sized organizations possess as it ensures that its storage nodes are easy to manage.
“The combination of techniques performed by the Gridstore vController can result in a 3-10x increase in IOPS performance over traditional scale-out cluster approaches,” said Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of DCIG. “But what is possibly most interesting about the Gridstore solution is that it does more than just enable small and midsized companies to cost-effectively implement a scale-out storage solution for their archiving and file serving needs. It positions them to confidently use a scale-out storage solution in their emerging virtualized environments where performance requirements are much more demanding and unpredictable.”
Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The virtualized storage pool is built from simple, low cost storage blocks of various capacities and eliminates the need for a clustered infrastructure. Gridstore provides incremental capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes to grow capacity to any size they need. This eliminates upfront capacity buying and the complexity and risk of storage silos as the capacity grows. The combination of advanced processing technology and simple building blocks of storage dramatically lowers the overall cost and increases its performance, scalability and reliability at 1/2 the cost of standalone NAS solutions.
“Our next-generation grid architecture was designed from day one to meet the demands of both data intensive applications and virtual environments while increasing performance, scalability and reliability,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “Our scale-out NAS is the most advanced, cost-effective storage system that gives organizations a building block approach to add capacity on the fly–while eliminating the need to overprovision costly resources.”
To view the complete DCIG report visit: http://ping.fm/vde1q
Tweet this: @DCIG endorses @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution as simple, practical & affordable for virtualized environments http://bit.ly/tsRril
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/KLweN
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/GVOGQ
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
@DCIG endorses @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution as simple, practical & affordable for virtualized environments http://bit.ly/tsRril
DCIG Report Validates Gridstore's Scale-Out NAS Solution as Simple, Practical and Affordable Choice for Virtualized Environments
Gridstore Provides Next-Generation Virtualized Storage Grid Architecture Differentiating Itself from Traditional Controller-Based or Clustered Approaches
Mountain View, CA – November 29, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that analyst firm DCIG has recognized Gridstore as a leading solution for scale-out NAS for SMBs. The DCIG report, titled “A Practical Scale-out Storage Solution for Today Minus Scale-out’s Costs and Complexity,” emphasizes the benefits of Gridstore’s scale-out NAS approach for the organizations that need the flexibility that a scale-out architecture provides while reducing management complexity and risk at a fraction of the cost of traditional controller and clustered NAS offerings.
According to the DCIG report, server virtualization is creating a new set of demands for ease and simplicity in managing and scaling storage capacity and performance that goes well beyond the bounds of what controller-based and clustered storage systems can provide. These traditional scale-out storage systems are not optimized to cost-effectively deliver the storage capacity and performance that virtualized environments require.
Gridstore has moved beyond the physical controller nodes and clustering architectures to provide a virtual grid storage solution. In Gridstore’s configuration each storage node has its own virtual controller that resides on the attached client. The plug and play aspect of the Gridstore solution addresses key concerns that small and mid-sized organizations possess as it ensures that its storage nodes are easy to manage.
“The combination of techniques performed by the Gridstore vController can result in a 3-10x increase in IOPS performance over traditional scale-out cluster approaches,” said Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of DCIG. “But what is possibly most interesting about the Gridstore solution is that it does more than just enable small and midsized companies to cost-effectively implement a scale-out storage solution for their archiving and file serving needs. It positions them to confidently use a scale-out storage solution in their emerging virtualized environments where performance requirements are much more demanding and unpredictable.”
Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The virtualized storage pool is built from simple, low cost storage blocks of various capacities and eliminates the need for a clustered infrastructure. Gridstore provides incremental capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes to grow capacity to any size they need. This eliminates upfront capacity buying and the complexity and risk of storage silos as the capacity grows. The combination of advanced processing technology and simple building blocks of storage dramatically lowers the overall cost and increases its performance, scalability and reliability at 1/2 the cost of standalone NAS solutions.
“Our next-generation grid architecture was designed from day one to meet the demands of both data intensive applications and virtual environments while increasing performance, scalability and reliability,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “Our scale-out NAS is the most advanced, cost-effective storage system that gives organizations a building block approach to add capacity on the fly–while eliminating the need to overprovision costly resources.”
To view the complete DCIG report visit: http://ping.fm/T8IqL
Tweet this: @DCIG endorses @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution as simple, practical & affordable for virtualized environments http://bit.ly/tsRril
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/dkIFN
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/cNMzC
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Mountain View, CA – November 29, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that analyst firm DCIG has recognized Gridstore as a leading solution for scale-out NAS for SMBs. The DCIG report, titled “A Practical Scale-out Storage Solution for Today Minus Scale-out’s Costs and Complexity,” emphasizes the benefits of Gridstore’s scale-out NAS approach for the organizations that need the flexibility that a scale-out architecture provides while reducing management complexity and risk at a fraction of the cost of traditional controller and clustered NAS offerings.
According to the DCIG report, server virtualization is creating a new set of demands for ease and simplicity in managing and scaling storage capacity and performance that goes well beyond the bounds of what controller-based and clustered storage systems can provide. These traditional scale-out storage systems are not optimized to cost-effectively deliver the storage capacity and performance that virtualized environments require.
Gridstore has moved beyond the physical controller nodes and clustering architectures to provide a virtual grid storage solution. In Gridstore’s configuration each storage node has its own virtual controller that resides on the attached client. The plug and play aspect of the Gridstore solution addresses key concerns that small and mid-sized organizations possess as it ensures that its storage nodes are easy to manage.
“The combination of techniques performed by the Gridstore vController can result in a 3-10x increase in IOPS performance over traditional scale-out cluster approaches,” said Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of DCIG. “But what is possibly most interesting about the Gridstore solution is that it does more than just enable small and midsized companies to cost-effectively implement a scale-out storage solution for their archiving and file serving needs. It positions them to confidently use a scale-out storage solution in their emerging virtualized environments where performance requirements are much more demanding and unpredictable.”
Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The virtualized storage pool is built from simple, low cost storage blocks of various capacities and eliminates the need for a clustered infrastructure. Gridstore provides incremental capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes to grow capacity to any size they need. This eliminates upfront capacity buying and the complexity and risk of storage silos as the capacity grows. The combination of advanced processing technology and simple building blocks of storage dramatically lowers the overall cost and increases its performance, scalability and reliability at 1/2 the cost of standalone NAS solutions.
“Our next-generation grid architecture was designed from day one to meet the demands of both data intensive applications and virtual environments while increasing performance, scalability and reliability,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “Our scale-out NAS is the most advanced, cost-effective storage system that gives organizations a building block approach to add capacity on the fly–while eliminating the need to overprovision costly resources.”
To view the complete DCIG report visit: http://ping.fm/T8IqL
Tweet this: @DCIG endorses @Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution as simple, practical & affordable for virtualized environments http://bit.ly/tsRril
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/dkIFN
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/cNMzC
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
@StorageSwiss report favors @Gridstore for grid storage over scale-out cluster storage http://bit.ly/sx6aSr
STORAGE SWITZERLAND REPORT HIGHLIGHTS GRIDSTORE?S SCALE-OUT NAS AS EXCELLENT ALTERNATIVE FOR GRID STORAGE OVER CLUSTERED STORAGE MODEL
Leading Storage Analyst Firm Endorses Grid Storage Infrastructure as the Best Approach for Modern Data Centers
Mountain View, Calif. – November 16, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced the findings of a report by analyst firm Storage Switzerland that highlights scale-out NAS as an excellent alternative for grid storage over clustered storage models. In the report, “Scale-out NAS Storage Grid vs. Cluster: Which Storage Infrastructure is Best For the Modern Data Center?” Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump compares grid storage to clustered storage approaches and determines that scale-out storage via a grid design is gaining in popularity for meeting the demands of the dynamic data center.
According to the findings by Storage Switzerland, a clustered, scale-out storage system is built a node at a time. In addition, each node is responsible for volume management, snapshots, replication and cloning and places a burden on each node in the scale-out cluster. To resolve this issue these systems must have multiple processors, multiple cores and multiple network connections to keep up with the amount of work they have to perform behind the scenes. This adds cost and complexity with the likelihood of a node failure which can have a cascading effect on the rest of the infrastructure.
On the flip side, scale-out NAS storage systems with a grid architecture, like those offered by Gridstore, take a different approach to addressing the scalable storage challenge. Storage Switzerland acknowledges that Gridstore’s NAS solution is an excellent alternative to the shortcomings of scale-out cluster-based storage.
“Scale-out storage continues to grow in popularity but many customers, assume that cluster -based, scale-out storage is their only option, simply tolerate its shortcomings,” said George Crump, lead analyst, Storage Switzerland. “Grid storage solutions like those available from Gridstore are an excellent alternative. By eliminating the cost, complexity and overhead of a cluster, these solutions provide scalable performance and capacity at a more cost effective price point while raising the bar from just high availability systems to completely fault tolerant systems.”
Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The virtualized storage pool is built from simple, low cost storage blocks of various capacities. Gridstore provides incremental capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes to grow capacity to any size they need.
“With Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution, every organization can have a true storage grid designed from the ground up without the complexity and risk of monolithic, clustered storage alternatives,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has confirmed in their report, Gridstore brings significant advantages over clustered approaches to deliver higher performance, fault tolerance and 3X less wasted capacity – all at a price point that is changing the dynamics of storage.”
To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit: http://ping.fm/DrDre
Tweet this: @StorageSwiss report favors @Gridstore for grid storage over scale-out cluster storage http://bit.ly/sx6aSr
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/saE28
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/uVBqj
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Mountain View, Calif. – November 16, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced the findings of a report by analyst firm Storage Switzerland that highlights scale-out NAS as an excellent alternative for grid storage over clustered storage models. In the report, “Scale-out NAS Storage Grid vs. Cluster: Which Storage Infrastructure is Best For the Modern Data Center?” Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump compares grid storage to clustered storage approaches and determines that scale-out storage via a grid design is gaining in popularity for meeting the demands of the dynamic data center.
According to the findings by Storage Switzerland, a clustered, scale-out storage system is built a node at a time. In addition, each node is responsible for volume management, snapshots, replication and cloning and places a burden on each node in the scale-out cluster. To resolve this issue these systems must have multiple processors, multiple cores and multiple network connections to keep up with the amount of work they have to perform behind the scenes. This adds cost and complexity with the likelihood of a node failure which can have a cascading effect on the rest of the infrastructure.
On the flip side, scale-out NAS storage systems with a grid architecture, like those offered by Gridstore, take a different approach to addressing the scalable storage challenge. Storage Switzerland acknowledges that Gridstore’s NAS solution is an excellent alternative to the shortcomings of scale-out cluster-based storage.
“Scale-out storage continues to grow in popularity but many customers, assume that cluster -based, scale-out storage is their only option, simply tolerate its shortcomings,” said George Crump, lead analyst, Storage Switzerland. “Grid storage solutions like those available from Gridstore are an excellent alternative. By eliminating the cost, complexity and overhead of a cluster, these solutions provide scalable performance and capacity at a more cost effective price point while raising the bar from just high availability systems to completely fault tolerant systems.”
Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The virtualized storage pool is built from simple, low cost storage blocks of various capacities. Gridstore provides incremental capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes to grow capacity to any size they need.
“With Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution, every organization can have a true storage grid designed from the ground up without the complexity and risk of monolithic, clustered storage alternatives,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has confirmed in their report, Gridstore brings significant advantages over clustered approaches to deliver higher performance, fault tolerance and 3X less wasted capacity – all at a price point that is changing the dynamics of storage.”
To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit: http://ping.fm/DrDre
Tweet this: @StorageSwiss report favors @Gridstore for grid storage over scale-out cluster storage http://bit.ly/sx6aSr
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/saE28
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/uVBqj
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
@StorageSwiss report favors @Gridstore for grid storage over scale-out cluster storage http://bit.ly/sx6aSr
STORAGE SWITZERLAND REPORT HIGHLIGHTS GRIDSTORE?S SCALE-OUT NAS AS EXCELLENT ALTERNATIVE FOR GRID STORAGE OVER CLUSTERED STORAGE MODEL
Leading Storage Analyst Firm Endorses Grid Storage Infrastructure as the Best Approach for Modern Data Centers
Mountain View, Calif. – November 16, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced the findings of a report by analyst firm Storage Switzerland that highlights scale-out NAS as an excellent alternative for grid storage over clustered storage models. In the report, “Scale-out NAS Storage Grid vs. Cluster: Which Storage Infrastructure is Best For the Modern Data Center?” Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump compares grid storage to clustered storage approaches and determines that scale-out storage via a grid design is gaining in popularity for meeting the demands of the dynamic data center.
According to the findings by Storage Switzerland, a clustered, scale-out storage system is built a node at a time. In addition, each node is responsible for volume management, snapshots, replication and cloning and places a burden on each node in the scale-out cluster. To resolve this issue these systems must have multiple processors, multiple cores and multiple network connections to keep up with the amount of work they have to perform behind the scenes. This adds cost and complexity with the likelihood of a node failure which can have a cascading effect on the rest of the infrastructure.
On the flip side, scale-out NAS storage systems with a grid architecture, like those offered by Gridstore, take a different approach to addressing the scalable storage challenge. Storage Switzerland acknowledges that Gridstore’s NAS solution is an excellent alternative to the shortcomings of scale-out cluster-based storage.
“Scale-out storage continues to grow in popularity but many customers, assume that cluster -based, scale-out storage is their only option, simply tolerate its shortcomings,” said George Crump, lead analyst, Storage Switzerland. “Grid storage solutions like those available from Gridstore are an excellent alternative. By eliminating the cost, complexity and overhead of a cluster, these solutions provide scalable performance and capacity at a more cost effective price point while raising the bar from just high availability systems to completely fault tolerant systems.”
Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The virtualized storage pool is built from simple, low cost storage blocks of various capacities. Gridstore provides incremental capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes to grow capacity to any size they need.
“With Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution, every organization can have a true storage grid designed from the ground up without the complexity and risk of monolithic, clustered storage alternatives,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has confirmed in their report, Gridstore brings significant advantages over clustered approaches to deliver higher performance, fault tolerance and 3X less wasted capacity – all at a price point that is changing the dynamics of storage.”
To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit: http://ping.fm/5ZsGi
Tweet this: @StorageSwiss report favors @Gridstore for grid storage over scale-out cluster storage http://bit.ly/sx6aSr
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/MoFeB
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/imDZa
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Mountain View, Calif. – November 16, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced the findings of a report by analyst firm Storage Switzerland that highlights scale-out NAS as an excellent alternative for grid storage over clustered storage models. In the report, “Scale-out NAS Storage Grid vs. Cluster: Which Storage Infrastructure is Best For the Modern Data Center?” Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump compares grid storage to clustered storage approaches and determines that scale-out storage via a grid design is gaining in popularity for meeting the demands of the dynamic data center.
According to the findings by Storage Switzerland, a clustered, scale-out storage system is built a node at a time. In addition, each node is responsible for volume management, snapshots, replication and cloning and places a burden on each node in the scale-out cluster. To resolve this issue these systems must have multiple processors, multiple cores and multiple network connections to keep up with the amount of work they have to perform behind the scenes. This adds cost and complexity with the likelihood of a node failure which can have a cascading effect on the rest of the infrastructure.
On the flip side, scale-out NAS storage systems with a grid architecture, like those offered by Gridstore, take a different approach to addressing the scalable storage challenge. Storage Switzerland acknowledges that Gridstore’s NAS solution is an excellent alternative to the shortcomings of scale-out cluster-based storage.
“Scale-out storage continues to grow in popularity but many customers, assume that cluster -based, scale-out storage is their only option, simply tolerate its shortcomings,” said George Crump, lead analyst, Storage Switzerland. “Grid storage solutions like those available from Gridstore are an excellent alternative. By eliminating the cost, complexity and overhead of a cluster, these solutions provide scalable performance and capacity at a more cost effective price point while raising the bar from just high availability systems to completely fault tolerant systems.”
Gridstore uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scalability and reliability. The virtualized storage pool is built from simple, low cost storage blocks of various capacities. Gridstore provides incremental capacity scaling so customers can start small and incrementally add nodes to grow capacity to any size they need.
“With Gridstore’s scale-out NAS solution, every organization can have a true storage grid designed from the ground up without the complexity and risk of monolithic, clustered storage alternatives,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has confirmed in their report, Gridstore brings significant advantages over clustered approaches to deliver higher performance, fault tolerance and 3X less wasted capacity – all at a price point that is changing the dynamics of storage.”
To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit: http://ping.fm/5ZsGi
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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/imDZa
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Kahuna Ventures improves email archiving, data retention and recovery with @Metalogix Archive Manager http://bit.ly/rNj3K7
Metalogix Archive Manager ? Exchange Edition Allows Kahuna Ventures To Eliminate PST Files and Improve Email Archiving, Data Retention and Recovery
Natural Gas Consulting & Engineering Firm Reduces Email Archiving Storage Volume by 50% and Dramatically Improves Email Backup and Management Processes with Metalogix
WASHINGTON, DC, – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and Cloud platforms, announced today that KAHUNA VENTURES LLC has purchased its Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition solution to manage its Outlook mailboxes and PST files. The company chose Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition because it needed an email archiving solution that would offer sound data protection and disaster recovery for email data by backing up email to an offsite location.
In just 12 years, Kahuna Ventures has grown from a one-employee company to an organization supporting a variety of clients ranging from midstream limited partnerships to major gas producers. As a longstanding leader in natural gas engineering and consulting, Kahuna Ventures employees often rely on previous email communications to support current or past project details and often need to access email information that might be years old. With some mailboxes topping 10GB and risking corruption, Kahuna Ventures needed to act fast in order to protect their data.
“We didn’t want to go through with the overhead created by most email archiving solutions that focused mainly on legal retention,” said Steve Russell, Manager, Information Technology, Kahuna Ventures. “That’s when we were introduced to Metalogix. After looking at Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition, we narrowed it down very quickly and decided Metalogix was the best fit for what we were looking for.”
Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition includes the legal retention features that Kahuna Ventures needed with a lightweight implementation that other competitors could not match. Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition is a flexible solution for email archiving, retention and disposition that collects, uploads and archives PST files to protect them and make them available, even when working remotely. The product features an easy-to-use Outlook or Outlook Web Access experience, which makes it transparent for users while providing complete email lifecycle management by capturing, routing, storing, restoring, migrating and deleting emails automatically based on company policy.
Kahuna Ventures reduced its email volume by 50% after installing Metalogix Archive Manager, making it much easier to backup and manage to its offsite data center. Kahuna Ventures now has the email protection it needed without the management risk of burdensome PST files as its email data is reliably backed up and can be easily recovered by the users themselves.
“Metalogix Archive Manager – Edition Exchange provided Kahuna Ventures with the email archiving solution it needed to archive emails due to legal retention and securely protect email data," said Steven Murphy, CEO of Metalogix. "Thanks to our solution’s lightweight implementation and ability to reduce the company’s email volume in half, Kahuna Ventures entrusted Metalogix to archive their files. Kahuna Ventures has been able to increase productivity as their end users now have the freedom to quickly recover business-critical emails that could be several years old.”
Metalogix Archive Manager—Exchange Edition Metalogix Archive Manager is the market leading e-mail and file archive solution for the mid-market. Through its powerful single instance and hierarchal storage management, you can meet your compliance and performance requirements. Archive Manager is transparent to end-users, minimizes Exchange mailbox and unstructured content storage requirements, improves search and recovery at the e-mail and mailbox level and establishes an efficient and standardized eDiscovery workflow. Archive Manager simultaneously enhances Exchange performance and uptime, allowing for reduced server and administration costs and with continuous access to data.
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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a managed partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com
About KAHUNA VENTURES
Kahuna Ventures was founded on the precepts of providing sound project management, quality engineering and outstanding safety measures. These principles coupled with our shared vision to be the premier Natural Gas Consulting firm drives our ability to form meaningful partnerships with our clients. In order to accomplish this we strive to create the best working environment for our employees, delivering vital products and services to our customers, and thus providing an unsurpassed value to our clients. For more information please visit: www.kahunaventures.com
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Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Sean O’Leary
Marketing and Communications Manager, Metalogix
(202) 568-8072
soleary@metalogix.com
WASHINGTON, DC, – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and Cloud platforms, announced today that KAHUNA VENTURES LLC has purchased its Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition solution to manage its Outlook mailboxes and PST files. The company chose Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition because it needed an email archiving solution that would offer sound data protection and disaster recovery for email data by backing up email to an offsite location.
In just 12 years, Kahuna Ventures has grown from a one-employee company to an organization supporting a variety of clients ranging from midstream limited partnerships to major gas producers. As a longstanding leader in natural gas engineering and consulting, Kahuna Ventures employees often rely on previous email communications to support current or past project details and often need to access email information that might be years old. With some mailboxes topping 10GB and risking corruption, Kahuna Ventures needed to act fast in order to protect their data.
“We didn’t want to go through with the overhead created by most email archiving solutions that focused mainly on legal retention,” said Steve Russell, Manager, Information Technology, Kahuna Ventures. “That’s when we were introduced to Metalogix. After looking at Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition, we narrowed it down very quickly and decided Metalogix was the best fit for what we were looking for.”
Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition includes the legal retention features that Kahuna Ventures needed with a lightweight implementation that other competitors could not match. Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition is a flexible solution for email archiving, retention and disposition that collects, uploads and archives PST files to protect them and make them available, even when working remotely. The product features an easy-to-use Outlook or Outlook Web Access experience, which makes it transparent for users while providing complete email lifecycle management by capturing, routing, storing, restoring, migrating and deleting emails automatically based on company policy.
Kahuna Ventures reduced its email volume by 50% after installing Metalogix Archive Manager, making it much easier to backup and manage to its offsite data center. Kahuna Ventures now has the email protection it needed without the management risk of burdensome PST files as its email data is reliably backed up and can be easily recovered by the users themselves.
“Metalogix Archive Manager – Edition Exchange provided Kahuna Ventures with the email archiving solution it needed to archive emails due to legal retention and securely protect email data," said Steven Murphy, CEO of Metalogix. "Thanks to our solution’s lightweight implementation and ability to reduce the company’s email volume in half, Kahuna Ventures entrusted Metalogix to archive their files. Kahuna Ventures has been able to increase productivity as their end users now have the freedom to quickly recover business-critical emails that could be several years old.”
Metalogix Archive Manager—Exchange Edition Metalogix Archive Manager is the market leading e-mail and file archive solution for the mid-market. Through its powerful single instance and hierarchal storage management, you can meet your compliance and performance requirements. Archive Manager is transparent to end-users, minimizes Exchange mailbox and unstructured content storage requirements, improves search and recovery at the e-mail and mailbox level and establishes an efficient and standardized eDiscovery workflow. Archive Manager simultaneously enhances Exchange performance and uptime, allowing for reduced server and administration costs and with continuous access to data.
Tweet this: Kahuna Ventures improves email archiving, data retention and recovery with @Metalogix Archive Manager http://bit.ly/rNj3K7
Follow Metalogix at http://twitter.com/metalogix
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a managed partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com
About KAHUNA VENTURES
Kahuna Ventures was founded on the precepts of providing sound project management, quality engineering and outstanding safety measures. These principles coupled with our shared vision to be the premier Natural Gas Consulting firm drives our ability to form meaningful partnerships with our clients. In order to accomplish this we strive to create the best working environment for our employees, delivering vital products and services to our customers, and thus providing an unsurpassed value to our clients. For more information please visit: www.kahunaventures.com
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Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Sean O’Leary
Marketing and Communications Manager, Metalogix
(202) 568-8072
soleary@metalogix.com
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
@StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN
STORAGE SWITZERLAND 90-DAY TEST DRIVE IDENTIFIES GRIDSTORE 2.0 AS THE EASIEST SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION THEY?VE TESTED
Hands-On Review Demonstrates that the Gridstore Scale-Out NAS Solution Succeeds in Installation, Expansion and Harnessing Multiple File Servers into a Single Powerful Storage Grid
Mountain View, Calif. – November 2, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 solution has received top marks in a three-month “test drive” by analyst firm Storage Switzerland as the easiest scale-out NAS implementation they have tested. In the hands-on review, “Storage Switzerland Drives SME Scale Out NAS – Initial Set Up of Gridstore 2.0,” Storage Switzerland’s senior analyst, George Crump, focuses on all aspects of the Gridstore Scale-out NAS out-of-the box experience including installation, expansion, and consolidation of multiple file servers into a single storage grid.
Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution has stood up to months of rigorous performance and reliability testing by Storage Switzerland with absolutely no issues or outages. In the past, the analyst firm has tested other NAS systems without proper power shutdown and found that they inexplicably reboot, turn themselves off or just drop their network connection. However, Gridstore excelled at the challenge by continuing to run no matter what torture testing was done to it.
“What makes Gridstore unique is its combination of a grid architecture with virtualization to eliminate the need for clusters,” said Crump. “This allows them to take advantage of parallel processing and I/O which should significantly improve throughput. Having been involved in several scale-out implementations, this is the easiest that I have seen thus far. We had the systems from box to accepting data in less than 30 minutes.”
In the report from Storage Switzerland, they found that Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution significantly reduces cost and complexity while delivering on the promise of harnessing multiple file servers into a single, powerful storage grid.
“Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution eliminates the heavy upfront cost of buying an enterprise NAS platform while still providing organizations, no matter how small or large, enterprise-class performance and fault tolerance of a true scale-out NAS – eliminating single points of failure, complexity and cost of multiple devices,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has validated in their test drive evaluation, implementation can be completed in as little as a half an hour with reliability that exceeds other vendors tested.”
Gridstore Scale-out NAS storage solutions offload storage processing onto an unlimited number of Virtual Storage Controllers running in client side machines. This enables very simple low cost storage nodes to be used in parallel while generating exceptional performance, scaling and reliability that goes beyond any product it its class.
“Gridstore’s NAS provides a simple, scale-out file storage solution with surprising performance and an even more surprising price point,” said Crump. “The Gridstore system continues to impress. It has been reliable, performs very well and has been easy to use and expand.”
The Storage Switzerland report includes video of the lab’s installation of the management software and system configuration. To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit:
http://ping.fm/YMrzm
Tweet this: @StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/ftyhL
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/bHN7L
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Mountain View, Calif. – November 2, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 solution has received top marks in a three-month “test drive” by analyst firm Storage Switzerland as the easiest scale-out NAS implementation they have tested. In the hands-on review, “Storage Switzerland Drives SME Scale Out NAS – Initial Set Up of Gridstore 2.0,” Storage Switzerland’s senior analyst, George Crump, focuses on all aspects of the Gridstore Scale-out NAS out-of-the box experience including installation, expansion, and consolidation of multiple file servers into a single storage grid.
Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution has stood up to months of rigorous performance and reliability testing by Storage Switzerland with absolutely no issues or outages. In the past, the analyst firm has tested other NAS systems without proper power shutdown and found that they inexplicably reboot, turn themselves off or just drop their network connection. However, Gridstore excelled at the challenge by continuing to run no matter what torture testing was done to it.
“What makes Gridstore unique is its combination of a grid architecture with virtualization to eliminate the need for clusters,” said Crump. “This allows them to take advantage of parallel processing and I/O which should significantly improve throughput. Having been involved in several scale-out implementations, this is the easiest that I have seen thus far. We had the systems from box to accepting data in less than 30 minutes.”
In the report from Storage Switzerland, they found that Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution significantly reduces cost and complexity while delivering on the promise of harnessing multiple file servers into a single, powerful storage grid.
“Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution eliminates the heavy upfront cost of buying an enterprise NAS platform while still providing organizations, no matter how small or large, enterprise-class performance and fault tolerance of a true scale-out NAS – eliminating single points of failure, complexity and cost of multiple devices,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has validated in their test drive evaluation, implementation can be completed in as little as a half an hour with reliability that exceeds other vendors tested.”
Gridstore Scale-out NAS storage solutions offload storage processing onto an unlimited number of Virtual Storage Controllers running in client side machines. This enables very simple low cost storage nodes to be used in parallel while generating exceptional performance, scaling and reliability that goes beyond any product it its class.
“Gridstore’s NAS provides a simple, scale-out file storage solution with surprising performance and an even more surprising price point,” said Crump. “The Gridstore system continues to impress. It has been reliable, performs very well and has been easy to use and expand.”
The Storage Switzerland report includes video of the lab’s installation of the management software and system configuration. To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit:
http://ping.fm/YMrzm
Tweet this: @StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/ftyhL
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/bHN7L
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
@StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN
STORAGE SWITZERLAND 90-DAY TEST DRIVE IDENTIFIES GRIDSTORE 2.0 AS THE EASIEST SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION THEY?VE TESTED
Hands-On Review Demonstrates that the Gridstore Scale-Out NAS Solution Succeeds in Installation, Expansion and Harnessing Multiple File Servers into a Single Powerful Storage Grid
Mountain View, Calif. – November 2, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 solution has received top marks in a three-month “test drive” by analyst firm Storage Switzerland as the easiest scale-out NAS implementation they have tested. In the hands-on review, “Storage Switzerland Drives SME Scale Out NAS – Initial Set Up of Gridstore 2.0,” Storage Switzerland’s senior analyst, George Crump, focuses on all aspects of the Gridstore Scale-out NAS out-of-the box experience including installation, expansion, and consolidation of multiple file servers into a single storage grid.
Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution has stood up to months of rigorous performance and reliability testing by Storage Switzerland with absolutely no issues or outages. In the past, the analyst firm has tested other NAS systems without proper power shutdown and found that they inexplicably reboot, turn themselves off or just drop their network connection. However, Gridstore excelled at the challenge by continuing to run no matter what torture testing was done to it.
“What makes Gridstore unique is its combination of a grid architecture with virtualization to eliminate the need for clusters,” said Crump. “This allows them to take advantage of parallel processing and I/O which should significantly improve throughput. Having been involved in several scale-out implementations, this is the easiest that I have seen thus far. We had the systems from box to accepting data in less than 30 minutes.”
In the report from Storage Switzerland, they found that Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution significantly reduces cost and complexity while delivering on the promise of harnessing multiple file servers into a single, powerful storage grid.
“Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution eliminates the heavy upfront cost of buying an enterprise NAS platform while still providing organizations, no matter how small or large, enterprise-class performance and fault tolerance of a true scale-out NAS – eliminating single points of failure, complexity and cost of multiple devices,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has validated in their test drive evaluation, implementation can be completed in as little as a half an hour with reliability that exceeds other vendors tested.”
Gridstore Scale-out NAS storage solutions offload storage processing onto an unlimited number of Virtual Storage Controllers running in client side machines. This enables very simple low cost storage nodes to be used in parallel while generating exceptional performance, scaling and reliability that goes beyond any product it its class.
“Gridstore’s NAS provides a simple, scale-out file storage solution with surprising performance and an even more surprising price point,” said Crump. “The Gridstore system continues to impress. It has been reliable, performs very well and has been easy to use and expand.”
The Storage Switzerland report includes video of the lab’s installation of the management software and system configuration. To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit:
http://ping.fm/LZIc6
Tweet this: @StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/e7ymV
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/yk7NY
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Mountain View, Calif. – November 2, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 solution has received top marks in a three-month “test drive” by analyst firm Storage Switzerland as the easiest scale-out NAS implementation they have tested. In the hands-on review, “Storage Switzerland Drives SME Scale Out NAS – Initial Set Up of Gridstore 2.0,” Storage Switzerland’s senior analyst, George Crump, focuses on all aspects of the Gridstore Scale-out NAS out-of-the box experience including installation, expansion, and consolidation of multiple file servers into a single storage grid.
Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution has stood up to months of rigorous performance and reliability testing by Storage Switzerland with absolutely no issues or outages. In the past, the analyst firm has tested other NAS systems without proper power shutdown and found that they inexplicably reboot, turn themselves off or just drop their network connection. However, Gridstore excelled at the challenge by continuing to run no matter what torture testing was done to it.
“What makes Gridstore unique is its combination of a grid architecture with virtualization to eliminate the need for clusters,” said Crump. “This allows them to take advantage of parallel processing and I/O which should significantly improve throughput. Having been involved in several scale-out implementations, this is the easiest that I have seen thus far. We had the systems from box to accepting data in less than 30 minutes.”
In the report from Storage Switzerland, they found that Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution significantly reduces cost and complexity while delivering on the promise of harnessing multiple file servers into a single, powerful storage grid.
“Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution eliminates the heavy upfront cost of buying an enterprise NAS platform while still providing organizations, no matter how small or large, enterprise-class performance and fault tolerance of a true scale-out NAS – eliminating single points of failure, complexity and cost of multiple devices,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has validated in their test drive evaluation, implementation can be completed in as little as a half an hour with reliability that exceeds other vendors tested.”
Gridstore Scale-out NAS storage solutions offload storage processing onto an unlimited number of Virtual Storage Controllers running in client side machines. This enables very simple low cost storage nodes to be used in parallel while generating exceptional performance, scaling and reliability that goes beyond any product it its class.
“Gridstore’s NAS provides a simple, scale-out file storage solution with surprising performance and an even more surprising price point,” said Crump. “The Gridstore system continues to impress. It has been reliable, performs very well and has been easy to use and expand.”
The Storage Switzerland report includes video of the lab’s installation of the management software and system configuration. To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit:
http://ping.fm/LZIc6
Tweet this: @StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/e7ymV
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/yk7NY
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
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