StoneFly Unveiled Twin Scale Out NAS Appliance at Up to 144TB per Node

StoneFly, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc., unveiled its TSO Twin Scale Out NAS storage appliances delivering performance, redundancy and scalability.

The TSO series of appliances were designed for customer’s requiring a storage solution that can scale out storage capacity while scaling up performance. Mirrored twin scale out NAS nodes scale up to 36 drives and 144TB of storage per node, and scale out to multiple nodes on demand.

For managing large quantities of unstructured (file-based) data within a single global namespace and a single file system, it was designed for markets that require vast quantities of high bandwidth throughput or fast parallel throughput for very large files required by HPC in media and entertainment.

The NAS feature allows you to ‘scale out’ as business grows by adding nodes without losing performance. You can expand one or more volumes across multiple nodes using no metadata and a single namespace. Usable bandwidth increases as new nodes are added. You can manage multiple nodes with a single user interface. Each time the TSO is scaled out, it adds capacity, more throughput, and more concurrency. Installation, management and scaling can be achieve at any size.

“TSO is the most scalable and resilient NAS in the market, utilizing the latest technology of no metadata, and establishing new storage standards in big data, media, and cloud markets,” said Mo Tahmasebi, president and CEO, StoneFly.

Content creation, transformation, production and archive, as well as unstructured data (documents, presentations, pictures, music and video files) are best stored in large scale out NAS appliances like the TSO. It allows to add server nodes on the fly as well as add CPU horsepower and storage capacity from additional TSO nodes. This linear scalability provides predictable performance and allows users to pay as you grow and to only buy what you need. It simplifies the storage of media and is a suited platform for consolidation onto a shared resource implementing higher utilization.

TSO can be used for fast primary storage for visual effects and high IO-intensive media production applications that require high-concurrent sequential throughput, post-production transcode and streaming media. It drives down the overall cost of storage while increasing performance for applications that need it when they need it, and reduces costs and floor space requirements. Capacity can be provisioned, shared, and managed with fewer resources. It leverages all of its resources, maximizes utilization, and integrates nearline SAS, enterprise SAS, and SSD tiering within the storage nodes.

Scale Out NAS is a distributed file system that can scale to several petabytes all while handling thousands of clients. It functions as a distributed data overlay, polling together storage building blocks over TCP/IP, aggregating disk resources and managing data in a single global namespace. The unified platform handles blocks, files, objects and big data.

It solves enterprise storage requirements, including: