ONStor Pantera Clustered NAS Named Storage Product of the Year by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com
Gold Award in the Disk and Disk Subsystems Category Acknowledges the ONStor NAS Solution's Superior Scalability, Performance and Interoperability
CAMPBELL, Calif. - February 7, 2007 - ONStor Inc., the leading provider of scalable clustered NAS solutions for the enterprise, today announced that its Pantera 2200 Clustered NAS system has won the coveted Gold Award in the disk and disk subsystems category in SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine's 2006 Storage Products of the Year competition. Judged by the editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Group, winners were chosen on criteria including ease of integration, functionality, innovation, manageability, performance, and value. The Pantera clustered NAS system was selected as a Gold Winner due to its versatility and trifecta of data protection benefits: scalability, performance and interoperability.
The ONStor Pantera Clustered NAS system is designed to be deployed across a broad range of demanding enterprise IT applications, including large-scale Windows server consolidation, Internet content delivery, and digital imaging. The Pantera Clustered NAS system integrates advanced features such as file server virtualization and modular clustering into a single cost-effective configuration, enabling enterprises to independently grow performance and capacity simply, quickly and non-disruptively by adding either filer nodes or disks. With this ONStor solution, enterprises can consolidate data from thousands of servers into a single, easy-to-manage environment. In addition, the Pantera system supports SAS and SATA drives simultaneously, allowing for tiered storage in the same chassis.
In naming ONStor Pantera as the top product in the disk and disk subsystem category, SearchStorage.com and Storage recognized ONStor for its ability to solve real problems and provide customers with a cutting-edge, easy-to-use, cost-effective alternative to other storage solutions.
The award-winning Pantera 2200 Clustered NAS is part of the ONStor family of open NAS solutions, which also includes the Bobcat Series NAS Gateway. ONStor solutions are designed to address some of the most pressing IT issues in dynamic business environments, including consolidation, data protection, scalability, and reliability. In a market hungry for cost-effective storage, Pantera allows enterprise customers to keep up with exponential data growth and meet compliance requirements.
About ONStor
ONStor drives down the cost of storage management by delivering enterprise-class file storage systems at affordable prices. The company's award-winning Pantera Clustered NAS Systems and Bobcat NAS Gateways consolidate information from multiple Windows, UNIX and Linux devices into a single, highly scalable storage environment. ONStor scalable clustered NAS saves enterprises 50% on the total cost of ownership with systems that let customers start small and scale massively as their requirements grow. The open storage architecture allows customers to leverage their existing assets, while integrated virtualization enables the rapid redeployment of resources to accommodate changing needs. Proven at hundreds of enterprise customer sites, ONStor delivers the cost-effective approach to scalable storage. More information about ONStor can be found at www.onstor.com or by calling toll-free 877-2ON-STOR (877-266-7867).