ONSTOR'S NEW COUGAR LINE OF DATA CENTRE CLASS CONTENT STORAGE BRINGS DOWN THE COST OF SCALING UP

Posted on: 16/07/2008

ONStor Inc., a leading provider of clustered NAS solutions for enterprises and content-rich organisations, has announced the launch of the Cougar 6000 series NAS gateway, the first data centre class clustered storage that affordably delivers the scalability, data availability, and high performance required by large enterprises and data-intensive environments. Cougar significantly lowers the total cost of managing unstructured data in the face of today's explosive growth of content, enabling more data to be managed with fewer resources. Featuring the ONStor EverScale redundant modular architecture, heterogeneous storage virtualisation, and advanced multi-core storage network processors, Cougar gives enterprises the flexibility to grow quickly and respond to storage need fluctuations without business disruption while maximising power and cooling efficiency.

ONStor's new Cougar line is an open data centre class networked storage solution that can scale up to 4 petabytes and 400K+ SpecSFS Ops in a cluster. With nearly twice the price/performance efficiency as compared to systems from the competition - 1.6x better on cost per IOP and 2x better on cost per MB/s - Cougar is an ideal platform for scaling unstructured content storage in the next generation data centre. Its "cluster-in-a-box" design delivers the high availability organizations need to meet strict SLAs from within a small, space and energy saving footprint.

The heterogeneous storage virtualisation built into Cougar makes it the leading high-performance content storage solution to consolidate and centralise management and provisioning of multi-vendor storage, dramatically reducing operational and capital expenditures. Customers can leverage the storage they already have, protecting their existing investments, and add new storage from other vendors or from ONStor.

The EverScale(tm) system architecture upon which Cougar is built is a patent pending scalable redundant modular architecture which delivers massive, independent scalability of performance and capacity with high data availability and near-zero downtime. It enables companies to grow their business and instantly respond to fluctuations in storage needs without downtime.

Cougar's advanced multi-core storage network processors are built into a highly available "cluster-in-a-box" design offering 18 cores per filer. This delivers high throughput, smallest footprint per rack unit, excellent power and cooling efficiency, and low cost per terabyte. This enables enterprises to process more data for less and stay in their current data centres longer.

The Cougar 6000 series is available today from ONStor and its partners in the United States, Europe, and Japan at a starting list price of $122,500 for a filer inclusive of a comprehensive set of NAS management software. ONStor systems are deployed across a wide range of demanding enterprise IT applications, including large-scale Windows server consolidation, Internet content delivery, and digital imaging.