Scale Out Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Storage growth is now driven not by structured and block data, but the unstructured data, file based digital content such as images, video, files and graphics. Scale out Network Attached Storage (NAS) is revolutionizing the Storage Market. Scale out NAS is a modular network attached architecture, that seamlessly scales from a single system of 10 Terabytes to multiple Petabytes of Data on demand, simplifying growth and the management of your Storage, reducing operational expenditure & management resource requirements.

Scale out NAS delivers many benefits, particularly for those companies and organisations who store a lot of digital or rich media content. The lack of a controller or controllers in the architecture means the system no longer has natural performance limitations in both I/O capability and data throughput to and from the cluster. As each node includes on-board CPU / CACHE and Host connectivity ports, the system scales linearly. Every time you add more capacity, you are also adding performance (I/O and Throughput).

Some clearly defined benefits for Scale out NAS are:

Linear Scalability of both performance and capacity with no bottlenecks
Massive performance due to pooled resources
Namespace / Filesystem aggregation (single volume storage, like a giant Z: drive)
More resiliency through clustered architecture, inherently highly available
Ease of management (97% easier to manage than traditional SAN technology - Forrester)
Flexibility, meet performance or capacity needs by adding hardware on the fly with no downtime

Lato Networks, through our Accredited Partner Program, offer the following solutions to clients:

Clustered Computing
Archiving & Nearline Storage
Virtualization
Disaster Recovery & D2D Backup
File Server Consolidation
Content Creation & Production
WAN Ingest & Content Delivery