3.4PB of Raw Capacity With 864 3.5-Inch HDDs on CirraStor

Cirrascale Corporation, developer of build-to-order, independent blade-based computing and storage data center infrastructure for conventional and modular data centers, announced the expansion of its CirraStor blade-based storage platform handling up to 864 3.5-inch hard drives, a 50% increase in overall drive count.

The announced increase enables the expanded CirraStor platform to utilize up to 3.4PB of RAW storage capacity.

Additionally, Cirrascale has concentrated its resources within the storage market ensuring technology by partnering with several independent storage software companies to create storage solutions to address a variety of industry applications including big data, cloud, HPC, active archive and more.

This new wave of software defined storage, as implemented by Cirrascale partners, provides increased flexibility, lowers the TCO of storage and allows for the re-configuration of hardware as storage requirements change. Cirrascale embraces this shift from monolithic black box storage solutions and is dedicated to the ideals of software providing the reliability and survivability of data instead of expensive and proprietary closed hardware.

"With the introduction of this newly expanded storage platform, Cirrascale is once again proving that companies choosing an emerging supplier of storage solutions can significantly increase their competitiveness within their own industries while getting the same level of reliability, scalability and superior price/performance compared to higher cost tier 1 suppliers," said David Driggers, CEO, Cirrascale. "The continued innovation of our blade-based storage products demonstrates our ability to deliver compelling storage solutions that will provide our customers and licensees with investment protection for years to come."

The Cirrascale CirraStor blade storage solution is available to order and will begin shipping in high volume in Q2 2013. Licensing opportunities for these technologies are available to both customers and partners.