SC19: PAC Storage Enhances Storage Systems With Scale-Out NAS, Next-Gen Controllers, and 32Gb FC /25GbE Connectivity

PAC Storage, affiliate company of Boxx Technologies announced 3 enhancements to their existing line of hardware: Scale-Out NAS systems, Next gen Controllers, and 32Gb FC and 25GbE host boards.

Each enhancement accelerates system performance, providing benefits to a range of industries and applications including database, analytics, virtualization, motion media, file sharing, cloud data integration, data science, AI.

Scale-Out NAS systems product line supports 100+Gb/s performance and scaling to more than 100PB capacity. These solutions allow capacity and performance to be increased by horizontally adding another node (array) to the system.

All Flash next generation SAN/NAS/cloud storage appliances

These Scale-Out NAS systems are joined by next-gen controllers featuring up to 12 cores of the Intel Corp.’s CPU technology. Improvements also include doubling the controller cache to 512GB, enabling the company’s controllers to boost performance by up to 80%, fulfilling the requirements of  intensive enterprise data environments. Both the company’s PS and All Flash product lines will feature the next-gen Controllers with all flash designed to deliver SSD performance and response times of less than 0.35 milliseconds, as well as up to 900,000 IO/s and 10,000/5,500 MB/s R/W speed.

Rounding out these company’s enhancements are 32Gb FC and 25GbE host boards which enable enterprise customers to migrate to the new networking standards for data access acceleration. The 32Gb FC and 25GbE host connectivity more than double system bandwidth via a single lane, making the storage infrastructure more scalable and flexible. An affiliate company of Boxx Technologies, the firm has showcased their solutions inside Boxx at SC19.

“With this solution, we’ve truly hit it out of the park,” said Rick Crane, CEO, PAC. “The new Scale-Out version of NAS is an outstanding and innovative alternative for our Isilon customers looking for a scale-out environment that’s simple to administer and easy on their budget. Even better, they can take advantage of the next-gen technology in this product, as well as in our existing portfolio of SAN/NAS.“