Creation of a Public or Private Storage Cloud
Robust Software Appliance Lets Users Create Storage Clouds with a Few Clicks
"QuantaStor" Differs from Legacy Storage Operating Systems by Enabling Users to Create Virtual Dedicated SANs- or NAS-based Storage Clouds by Securely Sharing the Underlying Hardware
(31.03.11) - OS Nexus, the provider of innovative storage appliance software for cloud computing and virtualised environments, unveiled its "QuantaStor" appliance software, bringing affordable public or private storage clouds to small business and managed service providers.
QuantaStor differs from legacy storage operating systems by enabling users to create virtual dedicated SANs- or NAS-based storage clouds by securely sharing the underlying hardware. This revolutionary, new storage cloud operating system is built from inception incorporating virtualisation concepts and functions similar to a hypervisor sharing physical resources with virtual machines.
The complexity and costs associated with managing and maintaining traditional SANs made them inaccessible to SMBs. The same is true for cloud hosting companies looking to offer SAN-based services to their smaller customers; they just don’t make financial sense using traditional SANs. With QuantaStor, budget-conscious organisations can ride commodity cost curves by purchasing lower-cost servers and deploying these as high-performance storage systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional SANs. A key differentiator in the design of QuantaStor is the way storage is managed by reducing overall complexity and allowing administrators to delegate general management tasks to their users via storage clouds.
Within a QuantaStor appliance, users can only see those resources within their designated cloud and are enabled to accomplish self-service administration according to policies or permissions set by the service provider. As such, users and virtualisation administrators are given access to advanced storage features typically only offered by enterprise SAN/NAS such as QuantaStor snapshots, cloud backup, and instant provisioning to make the execution of their projects safer and faster while increasing operating margins.
The creation of a public or private storage cloud can be done with just a few clicks, and this can then be managed via the advanced web-based management interface, QuantaStor Manager. This interface resembles the layout of a typical web application, making it very intuitive and easy to use and QuantaStor Manager is AJAX/web 2.0 based so there are no page refreshes and no client side drivers.
QuantaStor is the first storage operating system to bring true multi-tenancy to block storage thereby enabling administrators with the tools they need to delegate tasks to end-users who, in turn, can execute their projects faster. Thanks to QuantaStor’s robust data management functionality, users can now create snapshots or clones of shared 'golden-images,' provision and manage their storage, without having to get assistance from a storage administrator, enabling end-user control.
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with petabytes of legacy storage can also benefit from deploying QuantaStor. The software allows them to offer low-cost, high-performance, cloud-based public or private SANs by re-purposing commodity hardware already present in their datacentres, without the burden of additional capital expenditure. (OS Nexus: ra)
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